Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although Home Rule for Scotland in a federated Britain was part of that policy , it rarely got seriously discussed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 've got it somewhere filed away . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | First published ( under a different title ) in 1909 , it eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into 25 languages . |
| 11 | Ironically when it eventually got close to Black Rock , no " rescue " could be made because of low water . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It apparently blew apart when the Pentrite formed a fireball of 3,000C and 10 ft in diameter . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She felt the beat of his heart against her breast but it only came halfway to comforting her . |
| 16 | A council liason committee was set up when closure was first mooted … but it only met once … and some members are angry they had no warning of today 's announcement |
| 17 | It only reached there by Chief Superintendent knew what he was bloody talking about . |
| 18 | Even in the boom phase of the economic cycle , it only averaged below two million for just two years , before resuming its ascent . |
| 19 | Japan has experienced enormous growth of its overseas lending activities since 1980 , when it only had about 5% of the world lending market . |
| 20 | It only remained then , in this tight little half-hour programme , for David Attenborough to bring us up to date on the mountain gorillas of Rwanda — they are mainly alive and moderately well but not thanks to poachers — and for Mr Soper to have a fleeting swipe at the conservation intentions of the government , and it was all over . |
| 21 | The Clarion 's offices were small and dingy , but despite this , and the fact that it only appeared once a week , the magazine had a large and growing circulation because of the crusading character of its editor , J. D. O'Connor , who had been a leading journalist with the Morning Post before he had struck out on his own , financed by money left to him by his land-owning father . |
| 22 | Yeah , of course it would , well it only sat there anyway again in n it ? |
| 23 | And it only stopped once and that were at er unless it stopped to change engines somewhere , perhaps it would , but it stopped in Birmingham for twenty minutes and what a twenty minutes it were . |
| 24 | ‘ I knew that there was always the danger that I could lose my sight , but I really thought it only happened later in life , ’ says Philippa . |
| 25 | In the case of 44% , it only happened once ; for 29% it happened more than once with the same person ; for 19% there were three or more different people on separate occasions . |
| 26 | At this remove , the whole incident seems insane , but at the time it only proved once again what any driver has always known , that the constructors as a class are hard-nosed men with egos every bit as big as their drivers ' and that there is n't enough concern among them for driver welfare or safety to fuel a heart for a minute . |
| 27 | I had noticed the name on a map but had never read a mention of it so went there in some trepidation : it seemed remote , so far from towns and railways . |
| 28 | At the end of World War II , GCHQ , as GCCS had become , moved from its wartime headquarters at Bletchley Park , north of London , to Cheltenham , where it swiftly sprawled over two large sites — Oakley and Benhall . |
| 29 | It suddenly became rather urgent to find out how much Mrs Sweet knew . |
| 30 | It suddenly became very important for me to explain why my war was not over . |