Example sentences of "[adv] it [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The geese seemed driven off their heads with ice as the nights became a vast gallery of frozen stars , the air so stiff it scarcely yielded breath . |
| 2 | Although aimed at Azerbaijan , technically it also concerned Armenia 's claim on the region . |
| 3 | Oh that 's a lovely header on as well it almost reached Rozario Greyson gets it clear . |
| 4 | Then it just shot bullets at a tin can . |
| 5 | Army service offered poor living conditions , low pay and severe discipline ; but at least it usually gave security against starvation . |
| 6 | The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act , reviving an older myth , to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another , much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by ‘ sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat ’ is a movement away from a first situation ( that of Ariadne on Naxos ) which we never see in itself ; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other , but also of that first situation which , because a ‘ myth ’ and so subject to constant reinterpretation , may never have happened in any of the ways presented , if indeed it ever took place at all . |
| 7 | Until recently it also supplied M & N Norman Timber , but this company has since stopped taking mahogany from Maginco on environmental grounds . |