Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My brother , sister and I have made lots of friends whilst we have been down there , but it only really started to fascinate us from about 2 or 3 years ago , before then we had just been interested in swimming , going into the amusements and going to the beach etc . |
| 2 | Of course it only gradually came to mean all this to me through the succeeding years , through my memory of it . |
| 3 | Unfortunately it almost invariably failed to materialise ; delinquents seemed to be , if anything , even more ‘ realistic ’ in their aspirations than non-delinquents ( see , for example , Hirschi , 1969 ) . |
| 4 | This was the stratum of society from which Eadmer had come before the arrival of the Normans , and it almost certainly continued to provide most of the monks after the Conquest also . |
| 5 | Conversation thus tended to be laconic and allusive and it sometimes scarcely seemed to possess a thread of connection between one remark and the next : this was however an illusion , seductive enough to a stranger ignorant of background , all the more so to a stranger not fully in command of the language . |
| 6 | He had no idea why House Andreeyev desired his death , and in any case it no longer seemed to matter . |
| 7 | The challenge to the forces of tradition grew stronger , but it no longer seemed to imply social upheaval . |
| 8 | ‘ We would have been far happier to continue with the old system but Middlesbrough council decided it no longer wanted to collect on our behalf , which is their prerogative , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ There could be literally a multitude of quite proper reasons why a child decided it no longer wanted to live with its parents . ’ |
| 10 | The move follows an announcement by British Coal after the recent energy review that it would offer to the private sector pits it no longer wanted to operate . |