Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No apparently it takes the whole top of it |
| 2 | She did n't know how time passed , or how long it took the wild shrill crying to fade back into the sky ; but at last there was just the sound of the rain and the wind . |
| 3 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 4 | Some have done better than others , but there 's just the physical reality of how long it takes the lower two strings to speak — it 's going to take a few milliseconds for that to happen . |
| 5 | Often enough it takes the same form as with Beerbohm : the affectation of an anachronistic ignorance about what life in North America is like . |
| 6 | if you like so it pinches the two positive charges off the hydrogen cos in these equations the charges must must balance as well so that if you just cross the double positive out you need to you ca n't write it in but you need to remember that it wants to become a double positive given |
| 7 | And so it deposits the extra calories it does not need as fat . |
| 8 | So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA . |
| 9 | I had always loved walking so it seemed the obvious thing to do . |
| 10 | Well and so it split the Labour Party and the from er at that time you know we got five hundred members in with the Labour Party . |
| 11 | In doing so it used the temporary 1951–3 increase in employment of older workers rather than the wider post-war trend to earlier retirement . |
| 12 | So it behoves the healthy eater to assess the Indian menu for the best options , since chances are circumstances , friends and hunger will take him or her there sooner rather than later ! |
| 13 | And so it did the other night , when I heard two undergrads , giving a list of pleasures which were ( a ) Nazi , ( b ) leading to homosexuality . |
| 14 | In doing so it checks the following : |
| 15 | Nevertheless it marked the first step — though only that — in the restoration of royal coinage inside West Francia . |
| 16 | However , as Child ( 1984 ) has pointed out , only the formal structure is subject to control and planning by management , thus it remains the fundamental concern of organisation theory . |
| 17 | Thus it spread the Labour gospel of women as mothers . |
| 18 | Rachel was about to protest — this sounded like dangerous ground — but somehow it seemed the lesser of two evils and as she turned the key in the ignition she felt a flutter of excitement and she knew , deep down , that she wanted to go with him . |
| 19 | Walton stresses that there is no simple concept or criterion of the child 's best interests which can be applied in a crude rule-of-thumb way , and no group or individual which has sole authority to assume that generally it has the best conception of the child 's interests . |
| 20 | In a further speech in August 1987 he complained that there had been a tendency both in the USSR and outside it to see the socialist construction of the 1930s as no more than a series of mistakes . |
| 21 | A square block of flats was almost finished ; already it exhibited the confident innocence of the usurper . |
| 22 | " But oh " may be a somewhat pallid rendering of ( ) , yet still it signals the crucial turn in the poem 's argument . |
| 23 | Indeed , the lower the blood pressure the better , because statistically it reduces the subsequent risks of stroke and heart attacks . |
| 24 | ‘ $ ’ , ‘ — ’ , ‘ - ’ , ‘ ! ’ . ie. It has the same syntax as the module name . |
| 25 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 26 | The more the Morgan grows the more it stays the same |
| 27 | Qualitatively it lacked the professional touch , and within individual libraries it lacked planning and co-ordination . |
| 28 | Probably it served the same functions in the hands of the Minoan priestesses . |
| 29 | Just 19 months later it achieved the dubious distinction of being the only Royal Commission to be wound up without producing a report when it collapsed over internal differences as to the scope of its report and how it should proceed . |
| 30 | On Aug. 20 the Moldavian government ruled these secession moves unconstitutional , and two days later it outlawed the Popular Front-style Gagauz Khalky ( People 's ) Movement . |