Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Suddenly it shortened to half height , less .
2 ‘ Once upon a time I 'd 've made you turn religious , ’ said Constance , and suddenly it occurred to Scarlet that really she was already religious , as anyone who had borne a child must surely be : not in the conventional sense but rather as a passenger on a train would expect someone to be at the controls .
3 The humble old Citroën 2CV probably never realised just how much it gave to European light aviation !
4 Apparently it belongs to this boy Svend because it was he who suggested they go to Copenhagen instead of staying on in Roskilde when the pop festival ended . ’
5 The plan was to look back at intervals after leaving camp to see how long it took for various features of the Land Rover to disappear , so that I would know how much longer there was to walk when they reappeared in the evening .
6 that , that 's how long it takes for half of the radioactive isotopes to disappear .
7 It 's how long it takes for those to react together until they 've stopped reacting .
8 I wonder how long it takes to burnt alive in a blazing Tornado ?
9 Or perhaps it followed from that carefully nurtured tradition of political and religious toleration which was seen even by foreigners as a distinctively English achievement in the era of parliamentary government .
10 Perhaps it comes from some dubious bloodsport practised here , although one writer suggests it 's due to the equally dubious behaviour of the local land-owning family , the Cocks , but this surely ca n't be true .
11 A result , I ca n't hear myself speaking if I are the policy and resources committee there were other they were erm er in the debate there were some very good cases brought in to it and some erm good recommendations and this is why I 'm surprised I 'm er forget now why , there were some who were er against by majority because I believe that when we look down on the decisions of the P N O , we have made some very good recommendations if I say so it says on twenty , paragraph twenty in and you people on this authority , members of this authority have been saying a a clear definition of the role of the local government now and for the next twenty years , should underpin any consideration of local authority management structures and the role of members and therefore the joint working party 's consideration begin from an inadequate base .
12 So if you kept C R fixed and you happened to fiddle them so it came to one , you could just You You 're working out your graph you see you see then .
13 ‘ And so it came about that all over the land children were assembled in groups of 40 and made to learn the facts set out in the books written by Messrs Hall & Stevens , Warner & Martin , Durrell & Palmer , and Potter and Ridout .
14 Erm so it went to seven months and then you could see us switch back on time and we switched back on in about November .
15 It 's quite tightly bound round there , so it stays in this area here .
16 So lofty were these papal prerogatives , that no further Council would ever be needed , or so it seemed to many .
17 For many years the British had tried to run him , or so it seemed to many .
18 So it goes like that
19 Mick Farren on So It Goes in 1976 — the bastard
20 so it jumped to this different track , with different timing , and it came up , I like you , so I thought , oh , let it roll .
21 However , the fundamental theorem says that any efficient BFS is optimal in LP ( w 1 , … , w p ) for some w 1 , … , w p > 0 and so it corresponds to some efficient tableau ( Section 3.6 ) .
22 So it started in that kind of fashion really .
23 The objective to funding from the old objective programme is we 've now learnt that we 've been successful in getting a grant made towards the Centre feasibility study , Shropshire welcomes Japan television advertisement on the Japanese , Japan area , towards the pipeworks promotion and the fly-drive marketing initiative because , er , to get people from North America into the marches and staying here , so it looks as those projects will be almost fifty percent funded from Europe to objective two .
24 So it looks like this particular First Lady will have more serious matters on her mind than re-decorating the White House like Jackie Kennedy had .
25 Do you have to have those oh , so it counts as one
26 I wish to be at home with you indeed , indeed-my Joy is only in the bud here I am like that Tree , which fronts me — The Sun shines bright & warm , as if it were summer — but it is not summer & so it shines on leafless boughs .
27 So it applies to one of us .
28 With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau .
29 It was , he said , a ‘ No Hope Budget ’ — and so it appeared to many Conservative voters .
30 Two hundred pounds , it 's a good one , double decker with all sorts of , and then adds a forty five per cent mark up on it , so it starts at two hundred pounds , then adds
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