Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kalchu explained that every hunt begins like this : the dogs flush out the forest — the inaccessible chasms and the narrow hidden valleys — and when they 've found a boar , they 're trained to chase it downhill only . |
| 2 | I got , do n't know if they stop doing it altogether now , I really do n't know what erm , you see , I 've got an old one , but it says on it on the voucher it 's not trans none transferable . |
| 3 | DAVID went to sea and rose to command a naval ship ; after losing an arm in a naval battle , he was offered but refused a knighthood ; in his book Memorials of Ochiltree , David Ramsay says that when David 's brother James Tennant asked why he had refused the honour , he replied , ‘ Deed , Jamie , I just considered it little better than a nickname . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Despite the fact that you agreed to it little more than twenty-four hours ago ? ’ |
| 5 | Excitement spread tentacles that fastened round her heart , squeezing it mercilessly so that it was unable to beat , tentacles that compressed her lungs so they were unable to breathe . |
| 6 | yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ? |
| 7 | ’ He reached for the replenished wine chalice at his elbow , and lifted it rather challengingly . |
| 8 | I seem to remember it rather clearly . |
| 9 | Mr Newbery puts it rather differently for Britain : cars using city centres at rush hour , he calculates , incur marginal costs more than 100 times higher than cars on the average motorway or country road . |
| 10 | ‘ I have to say I see it rather differently , ’ the Doctor said . |
| 11 | Told it rather well , I thought . |
| 12 | She cheered up after writing the experiment because she had obviously done it rather well . |
| 13 | Rather one must teach criminal law jurisprudentially and the circumstance that criminal law throws up so much grist for the jurisprudential mill fits it rather well for the role of an introductory course . |
| 14 | ‘ You timed it rather well , although perhaps you were in too much of a hurry to get away , because I lived to tell the tale . ’ |
| 15 | But was perhaps a little part of its success , he dared to hope , because he had done it rather well ? |
| 16 | Do n't you think that name suits it rather well ? ’ |
| 17 | She does it rather well . |
| 18 | And , in true BMW style , when the engineers did it , they did it rather well ! |
| 19 | But is n't it rather late in the morning to raid a garden ? " said Hazel , glancing at the distant roofs of the farm behind the trees . |
| 20 | Well , A E Housman put it rather better in a different context . |
| 21 | They run it rather like |
| 22 | Charles acknowledged it rather sheepishly . |
| 23 | This was a third form of government , after rule by gentlemen and rule by military discipline had turned out not to be very successful , and most Englishmen would have found it rather less usual than either of the earlier types of government . |
| 24 | But in practice the intrusion of the laity into government service made it rather less like a twentieth-century bureaucracy than it had been in the later middle ages . |
| 25 | Easily Accessible : Buxton was discovered by the Romans who named it rather poetically ‘ the spa of the Blue Waters ’ . |
| 26 | Yes that 's what I mean , I noticed that the man who did it balanced it rather nicely , he had some actors some politicians , that everyone can contribute especially in a . |
| 27 | Emmie looked down at the top of his head ; his hair was black and silky and he wore it rather long , like an artist . |
| 28 | In his view , there are times when you have to fight fire with fire , or , as he put it rather more eloquently during his defence of the Grand Slam Cup decision , ‘ It was a sad reality that we were left with no real option but to protect tradition with the modern deterrent — money . ’ |
| 29 | Eagles Nest Direct at 4a is one I actually went to check and thought it rather more . |
| 30 | I do not believe that a contract which clarifies hours worked or tasks to be done will prevent teachers from caring , but it may make it rather more difficult to implement school-based initiatives . |