Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first he left that aspect of the practice to David Bryce , his partner from the early 1840s , and then , after his move to Stratton Street , London in 1844 , finally abandoned it altogether to concentrate exclusively on country houses . |
| 2 | Mrs Smith said that there was a presumption that parliament , when legislating , did not intend to depart from the existing common law unless it expressly said so . |
| 3 | Again , without Lizzie 's care for its brass rods and polished margins , it rather slunk upwards , its dignity lessened by the light to which it climbed . |
| 4 | It rarely took less than seven minutes to organize the few things I needed , so that day I rehearsed mentally as I went along : ‘ Choose the best place to stop . |
| 5 | It rarely wanders as far south as the British or northern European coasts in winter . |
| 6 | Although Home Rule for Scotland in a federated Britain was part of that policy , it rarely got seriously discussed . |
| 7 | When the State itself undertakes investment , it rarely does so to the benefit of the older industrialized regions . |
| 8 | Although it grows to some 20cm in the wild it rarely achieves even half that size in the aquarium . |
| 9 | The studies that have been undertaken on early Anglo-Saxon pottery emphasise that , unlike the more exotic materials discussed above , it rarely travelled far from a clay source to the point of consumption , regardless of whether it was for funerary or domestic purposes ; some classes of funerary pottery may have been transported further . |
| 10 | It rarely has before , and anyhow , bream continued to roll and give line bites afterwards . |
| 11 | Even those which survive it rarely do so unscathed . |
| 12 | It rarely grows more than 30 cm ( 1 ft ) across . |
| 13 | His marriage , too , although it presumably owed much to Gloucester , also allied him with the Percies , since his new brother-in-law lord Scrope was not only a neighbour of the duke but also a Percy retainer . |
| 14 | His marriage , too , although it presumably owed much to Gloucester , also allied him with the Percies , since his new brother-in-law lord Scrope was not only a neighbour of the duke but also a Percy retainer . |
| 15 | It is not practical politics to abolish private schools , nor do I believe it right to do so , in the interests of freedom . |
| 16 | Nevertheless it appears from the judgment of Thorpe J. , and I do not doubt that he was right , that a dominant factor was W. 's desire to be in an environment where , as she thought , she was in control and could cure herself if and when she thought it right to do so . |
| 17 | His position was not unlike that of MacDonald two years before : but he was able to exert his influence with most of his former strength when he thought it right to do so . |
| 18 | The book goes on to describe , in a reflective and anecdotal way , an approach to evangelism which is true to our experience , moulded by our personality and sensitive to the needs of the individuals with whom we believe it right to share openly our faith . |
| 19 | I 've got it somewhere filed away . |
| 20 | This is a pity , since it thereby excludes much that is worthy of attention in modern fiction writing ( see Ch 6 ) . |
| 21 | It builds on the argument in the preceding section where it was argued that because the cat sees and tries to extricate the ball stuck in the tree , it thereby manifests only those minimal beliefs that we would attribute directly to a human being in similar circumstances . |
| 22 | It effectively does away with the need to buy fine grind coffee for filter machines and a coarser grind for cafetières and percolators . |
| 23 | A century ago Norway had perhaps 20 cattle breeds but today it effectively has only the Norwegian Red . |
| 24 | So it eventually re-emerges as violent aggression — or as physical disease , depression , ‘ accidents ’ or other traumas . |
| 25 | Khorramshahr , grimly dubbed Khuninshahr ( city of blood ) by some Iranians , was the subject of a good deal of contradictory reporting before it eventually fell late in October . |
| 26 | First published ( under a different title ) in 1909 , it eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into 25 languages . |
| 27 | Ironically when it eventually got close to Black Rock , no " rescue " could be made because of low water . |
| 28 | But government spokesmen said that they wanted to see it eventually set so as to maintain the level of existing capacity at the end of the century . |
| 29 | It apparently blew apart when the Pentrite formed a fireball of 3,000C and 10 ft in diameter . |
| 30 | One of these was the loading bay for The Gilded Cage — or , as it apparently had once been called , the Ambassador Club — and the other was its stage door . |