Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] it [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simultaneously with doing the evening performances — two on Saturday , at five and eight — he was recording episodes of Beyond Our Ken and making the latest ‘ Carry On ’ film — Carry On Constable- and it began to show with the way Pieces of Eight proceeded . |
| 2 | The following weekend , the French referendum on Sept. 20 on ratification of the Maastricht Treaty produced a majority in favour , but so narrow that it failed to dispel growing doubts about the integration process . |
| 3 | Constance could not decide whether or not his diffidence sprang from fear or indifference , and she found it puzzling that someone as confident as Nicky in every other area of his life should be so timid when it came to love . |
| 4 | Even so , the decision of the 19th Palestine National Council in November 1988 to take this highly accommodationist road was not an easy one , and was only possible because it had become apparent that the world now recognized that no substantive peace negotiations were likely to materialize without formal PLO participation . |
| 5 | It was a movement so subtle that it seemed to occur from the corner of her eye . |
| 6 | There was one girl in particular who interested Harriet , a small girl with hair cut gamin short , whose face was so expressive that it seemed to reflect every one of the emotions that they were all feeling , these midinettes who had basted hemlines and stitched hooks and eyes into place , positioned trimmings and sewed them into place with such tiny stitches that they were all but invisible to the naked eye . |
| 7 | And animal minds , a fortiori , do not engage in this sort of computation ( which is why the Punch cartoon would have been less funny if it had shown a human fisherman ) . |
| 8 | Furthermore the 1951 French elections had brought a considerable number of Gaullists into the National Assembly who opposed EDC , not so much because it meant arming German soldiers , but because it would ‘ surrender ’ the command of the French Army to a supranational institution . |
| 9 | In many ways I was greatly relieved as it had become obvious to me that he was n't well . |
| 10 | Here the new head had recently approached the teacher-librarian in the hope that the school might become involved in the ESSE/L Project , apparently unaware that it had received a Minor award three or so years before . |
| 11 | Yet not so rotten that it had obscured the carved initials at the base of the grip . |
| 12 | I was told I needed to provide nesting material , but the material I purchased from my local pet shop was so fine that it became wrapped abound the parent 's legs and caused severe cuts . |
| 13 | It was not perhaps natural but it had served him well , Nicholas knew , from the beginning . |
| 14 | Lenny Campion gripped the Bakelite microphone so hard that it began to hurt his hand . |
| 15 | However , it was also acknowledged that the task set before the filmmakers was so large that it defied reducing the complex series of events into a simple formula drama . |
| 16 | Until now its speed had been so great that it had grown into a ravening monster , capable not only of swallowing the Residency , but of gulping down the banqueting hall as well . |
| 17 | The realisation left him with a feeling of anguish so great that it threatened to engulf him . |
| 18 | What is so odd , though , is that Lewis was tempted to argue the faith , to analyse and defend it in a manner at once so roughshod and so cerebral when it had come to him by quite other means . |
| 19 | Luke said softly , his voice so deep that it seemed to run along her nerves and play a tune like a violin . |
| 20 | ‘ After ten minutes , ’ wrote J.C.Trewin , ‘ the little piece became so predictable that it needed acting of quite uncommon quality to heighten it . |
| 21 | Our father , Fa , was an agent for India 's Inland Navigation so that we ( our mother , Mam , my three sisters , Jon , Nancy and Rose , and I ) lived on the banks of Assam 's and Bengal 's great rivers , sometimes two miles wide , flowing through land so flat that it seemed to meet the sky all round like an inverted bowl . |
| 22 | How could she tell this impossible Dane that for some wild , unaccountable moment the previous evening , when his mouth had joined with hers , she 'd imagined they shared a mutual attraction so powerful that it had overridden any man-made measurement of time or propriety ? |
| 23 | Was it really so important that it had to take priority over something as necessary as post , which often contains faxes and other mail urgently required . |
| 24 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
| 25 | His abuse beat in her face like rain so heavy that it forced shut her eyes . |
| 26 | She rose slowly , awkwardly , cursing a head that felt so heavy that it threatened to fall off her shoulders , and sat up wincing . |
| 27 | ( a ) Would Jeremiah Allen 's company have been so successful if it had certified boilers but not insured them as well ? |
| 28 | She 'd never before seen a carpet so thick that it showed vacuuming lines , like a lawn . |
| 29 | One seemed bolder than the others and came so close that it began to enter the realm of ordinary vision . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've got work to do , ’ she said in a voice so brittle that it threatened to crack completely . |