Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 It applied only prospectively and did not have the effect of rendering unlawful conduct which had previously been lawful .
2 Would it stay here forever or be freed only when his murderer was brought to justice ?
3 If too great a volume is produced for the i.c. to handle it shuts down automatically but will come on again when correct conditions are restored .
4 In some ways , the coaching world is like a jigsaw , in as much that when a piece of the puzzle which one felt was the perfect fit is found not to be in the right place after all , then it goes somewhere else and another piece has to be found to fill the gap .
5 In some members of the family , it goes even further and coils around the right eye-socket .
6 Progressive ‘ improvement ’ of the kind suggested by the arms-race image does go on , even if it goes on spasmodically and interruptedly ; even if its net rate of progress is too slow to be detected within the lifetime of a man , or even within the timespan of recorded history .
7 Erm it goes on continually and these poor girls are oh you 're fat !
8 but if you 're doing the letter E it goes up there and comes down okay ?
9 Well it goes very noisily and horribly .
10 and it slows you down , and it goes in out and like that
11 It sold out quickly and after a repressing it reached number four in the independent chart published in Melody Maker .
12 It bounced back hard and left the pillar splashed with paint and some of the trim as Carson fishtailed the Mercedes out into the road and away from the house .
13 it moved somewhere else and I 'm saying I 'm looking at it
14 The Col d'Aubisque is high , at 5,600 feet , and the views that you have from it are sumptuous , both back the way you have come , and now to the east as well , across to the prominent peak of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , once thought to be the highest in the chain because it stands rather apart and closer to the plain , and before people took to actually measuring altitudes , the nearest peaks were mistaken for the tallest .
15 If a point is missed because it is too deeply embedded in its cultural setting in one place , it stands out prominently and unequivocally in another .
16 And did that cross the line it has n't yet and Ormanroyd comes out with the ball .
17 I ask you when when you were younger did you would there have been many of the folk in the place spoke Gaelic or was it dying out then or
18 During the two world wars it rose very rapidly and then fell when peace was restored .
19 sector and wait for it to come round again and take the next sector .
20 Yeah , and wait for it to come round again and t by which time it will have shoved it off somewhere and
21 She saw it wobble , then it tilted , then it toppled right over and fell with a tinkle on to the table-top not twelve inches from Miss Honey 's folded arms .
22 Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour .
23 I was cleaning it up , I mean it dropped off there and it did n't break
24 She would concentrate on the job in hand instead , and get it done as quickly and cleanly as possible .
25 She ran faster , shouted harder , but it roared noisily on and disappeared round a bend .
26 the filament used is also resistant to scrubbing techniques , it bounces back nicely and washes clean very well .
27 ‘ We are making progress but that is n't something that happens overnight , it happens very slowly and almost imperceptibly . ’
28 He 'd forgotten about the way it flickered before it came on properly and made a noise .
29 With trepidation I took a stronger hold of it and it came away altogether but with a sharp dagger of soreness , like digging out a splinter .
30 He stood mesmerized by a giant wave , shooting picture after picture until it came right over and dragged him out .
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