Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [subord] it [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 Water the plant well and keep warm and shaded for a day or two while it settles down .
2 Although at this time of year , before the monsoon , the water is at its lowest , it was nevertheless chest-deep in places and fast-flowing — turquoise and white where it swirled around boulders near the edge , dark green in the broad sweep of the central canal .
3 The French Government 's response , as swift and dramatic as it turned out to be highly risky , was to call its own referendum .
4 I also used to compare the buzzard to a kite , being allowed to gain height gradually and seeming to grow smaller and smaller until it went out of control and soared off into the distance with the wind .
5 The path widened and flattened as it came out of the Grove and she caught Nick 's hand to make him run faster .
6 He dialled Jo 's number in Rome , and grew lonelier and sadder as it rang on and on , unanswered .
7 Sometimes in the Cauldhame Arms I stand up at the urinal , but most if it ends up running down my hands or legs .
8 With the velocity , as long as it stays up there , it 's travelling in the direction away from the starting line .
9 As long as it came back out to where it is now .
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