Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it stopped short never to go again |
| 2 | It ventured forth only to kill cattle or flatten crops , poisoning the air with its fetid breath . |
| 3 | It had a number of clauses in it designed quite properly to protect the company , but there was n't one , not one , that was relevant to my private life . |
| 4 | It seemed wrong somehow to take the ring . |
| 5 | Her voice sounded clipped , rather staccato , and it seemed not properly to belong to her any more . |
| 6 | His primary commitment was to effective control ; he chose deterrence because it seemed most obviously to follow from his views on human rationality . |
| 7 | ‘ It happened too fast to feel much , ’ Harry said , smiling lopsidedly . |
| 8 | At its southern end it turned sharply eastwards to cross the street described above , and possibly to link with yet another running south-west from the Tiddington road ; it has been suggested that the latter was constructed as a short cut to Ryknild Street and skirted the southern suburb . |
| 9 | In our natural history ( as elsewhere later in science ) it turned out best to adapt an existing language ; but the man who did it , Ligneous , in the middle of the eighteenth century , came from Sweden . |
| 10 | Yet as the war dragged on it served not only to increase the regime 's unpopularity but also to give new leverage to the forces of opposition . |
| 11 | The public inquiry into the expansion of the Windscale nuclear reprocessing factory gave the anti-nuclear movement the impetus it needed not only to challenge the official estimates of risks , but also to question repeatedly the idea that the simplistic estimation of the numerical size of a risk should govern its regulation . |
| 12 | But it flew well enough to confound the sceptics and won first place at the April 1978 Maryland Kite Festival . |
| 13 | By early 1981 our support had fallen to below 30 per cent and as the months went by it plummeted even further to reach 23 per cent at the end of the year . |
| 14 | It pulled back slowly to reveal a fringe of green around the black . |
| 15 | It looked close enough to touch . |
| 16 | Once the client was in a position to show that it had received independent legal advice to the effect that the law was uncertain it went ahead alone to achieve its chosen objective . |
| 17 | Lord knows , it took long enough to compile all the information stored in there . |
| 18 | This was the most encouragement the boy got there , and it proved not enough to pep up his dismal sales figures . |
| 19 | This was based on his father 's life and it did well enough to bring in five thousand pounds . |
| 20 | If until 1832 the working class seen in a Marxist perspective as a proletariat was emergent and potential , if it had yet fully to identify itself , the Reform Bill of that year finally distinguished it from the rest of society . |
| 21 | But , at least , it lasted long enough to show that the potential and the will were there . |
| 22 | It tended too often to falter on the issue of provision , and it seriously underestimated the extent to which professional attitudes and understanding are vital factors in the improvement of practice . |
| 23 | It remained now only to encourage Charlie to talk , and here there was no difficulty . |
| 24 | It set out therefore to ensure , in consultation with the DES , that surveying came within the polytechnics ' orbit and that ‘ centres of excellence ’ for surveying education were established . |