Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it burst into flame . |
| 2 | Suddenly it seemed to Honor that a bond was being forged between them . |
| 3 | For example , over half of the participants ( 56 per cent ) did not know how many beers they could drink before reaching the legal limit for driving and well over two-thirds of them knew neither how long it took for alcohol to be burned up by the body ( 71 per cent ) nor what , if anything , was an effective way of sobering up ( 71 per cent ) . |
| 4 | Perhaps it looked like mummy . |
| 5 | So it went on day after day , night after night ; we were out for a month . |
| 6 | So it arrived on time … |
| 7 | UI admits its lost the industry initiative it once appeared to have once it went beyond Unix kernel issues . |
| 8 | If ever it came to court ! |
| 9 | Isabel knew her heart had ceased beating because now it shuddered into action again , racing so fast that she began to feel faint . |
| 10 | Exactly the same thing had happened in pop music and now it happened to art — hype , control , block-buying . |
| 11 | Now it tingled under fitzAlan 's touch . |
| 12 | that wax that we made up there with the antique wax has n't turned out as well it did with Mansion polish so when you make it up |
| 13 | It was raw , frank and eventually it appeared in print . |
| 14 | Eventually it was standing so well that the twins were able to play teasing games with it , pushing and pulling and slapping its sides , so sometimes it fell and sometimes it lurched from side to side and recovered . |
| 15 | Sometimes it went to sleep on the rag rug before the electric fire and snored quietly , or its paws would twitch as it chased rabbits in its sleep . |
| 16 | Sometimes the dog went with Melanie and sometimes it stayed at home and sometimes it was busy . |
| 17 | Clerke had a shallop built for exploration of the harbours of south-eastern Newfoundland , and fortunately it remained on tow when the ships left for the mainland . |
| 18 | Then it hopped into bramble cover and was lost from view . |
| 19 | Now and then it came into view , wide and smoothly blue , with low reedy islands breaking its shining surface . |
| 20 | But then it turned to mud — horrible stuff that sucked at my feet , and stank . |
| 21 | In Orkney , the attack on housing policy was at first personal but then it turned against bureaucracy in general which led officials to being very defensive . |
| 22 | Although not completely immune from failure its advantages were obvious ; despite this , initially it met with opposition from many of the old timers . |
| 23 | Indeed it drew from Moray the comment that this was the one matter that he had against their father : that he had married off his elder daughter , as a mere girl , to a man more than twice her age , as a matter of policy , to endeavour to attach Dunbar more firmly to the national cause , unsuccessful as this had been . |
| 24 | Up to that time coal was chiefly used as a domestic fuel but from 1812 onwards it went to sea as bunker fuel . |
| 25 | Afterwards it vanished without trace and the buyer remains unknown . |