Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is cheaper in that it costs less to give one grant to a large unit than ten grants to small units . |
| 2 | Then , quite suddenly , the monkey 's body clocked kicked in and it fell asleep . |
| 3 | every so often , they 've got these little card things well they shove them in and it clicks all these numbers up so I used to buy one token |
| 4 | The document argued that a school would be more effective in achieving its aims if they were written down and it suggested six possible aims expressed at a high level of generality , for example : to develop lively enquiring minds … ; to acquire the knowledge and skills relevant to adult life and employment in a fast-changing world . |
| 5 | The nightmare of officials is that Japan 's fertility rate might keep going down until it hits western German levels — 1.28 at present . |
| 6 | A festoon blind , on the other hand , hangs like a curtain when it is down but it has vertical rows of rings on the back through which cord is threaded . |
| 7 | You ca n't just cut it down because it looks untidy ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll take you over there now , then , and you can get settled in before it gets dark . ’ |
| 9 | Well I 'll get that in before it gets dark . |
| 10 | She said they only got the men in when it went wrong . |
| 11 | ‘ When we do silage work , this engine is barely ticking over and it uses less fuel over the same acreage than a Ford 8210 , ’ 2 he says . |
| 12 | The full sized engine would then have been worked on until it became feasible to exploit steam engines commercially . |
| 13 | Er about this strike and er but time went on and it became obvious that er nobody were going to win only the boss like this boss , course he was he was scratching through , and so they called the strike off and every person who worked at er every firm had a meeting and they all decided to take so many and every firm took so many of the workers and so nobody was ever unemployed as a consequence of the strike which was very very good . |
| 14 | We got about twenty panels at work and on the panel there 's a little plastic thing stuck on and it needs four keys and one . |
| 15 | I 've got Brylcreem on and it looks black . |
| 16 | Another point , though : if it 's paper you 're washing , make sure it 's washable and wo n't peel off if it gets damp . |
| 17 | Contran illuminates a warning light if any transmission exceeds twenty seconds in length , and automatically switches the transmission off if it exceeds thirty seconds . |
| 18 | Noting the slow take up of the high-end RIO , Specialix says RIO was ‘ over engineered ’ and brought to the market before its time , saying it will have to wait until multi-processing technology takes off before it sees any real installations . |
| 19 | paper about that Robin Reliant and he 's done it all up and it does hundred mile an hour ! |
| 20 | We got out over and we had n't got twenty yards when the flares went up and it became undiluted hell |
| 21 | It has two round firebowls with grills that tuck neatly inside when you fold the barbecue up and it has removable legs for easy storage . |
| 22 | If you can find some moss and dig it up and it lasts longer . |
| 23 | no so it was saying how times have changed , but they used to be very , very stuck up and it showed some of the early programmes and how people used to talk , oh so frightfully posh and so frightfully gorgeous and the words , and , it 's rather pleasant is n't it , really rather nice |
| 24 | Nobody asked the Public Service official anything , and Yggdrasil would have spoken up if it had any strong objections . |
| 25 | The bloody Hun-lovers were trying to blow this club up because it represents all that is best about England . ’ |
| 26 | There 's been a big misunderstanding and I want to clear it up before it gets any worse . |
| 27 | which , so that you got the stables shut up before it got dark at four o'clock , ai n't it |
| 28 | VauDe Space takes less than five minutes to put up as it erects all in one |
| 29 | We had such happy family holidays in the drizzle waiting for the sun to try and come out that it seemed churlish to spoil things with science . |
| 30 | ‘ I never used to read poetry at all but I 've just found out that it says all the things I 've often felt but never been able to express . |