Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Christopher 's outstretched right hand was running slowly through her hair , touching her head at the roots and pulling the hair outwards so that it fell back like a fan .
2 This , to use a definition of the American , Stanley Ellin , one of the writers to have given us short stories to equal any that have been written since crime and the short story met ( read his The Speciality of the House ) is any story so long as it deals with " that streak of wickedness in human nature " .
3 She plaited her hair so tightly that it hurt her , straining hair and flesh until it felt as though the white seam down the back of her head might split and the brains gush out .
4 I do n't care if it 's a rubbish route so long as it 's got an E-number .
5 Clearly , this must be the case so long as it remains the only easily available platform for interactive multimedia .
6 Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw .
7 For fear of losing one or two sales of its obsolete mainframes , IBM designed the RT so badly that it had to junk the machine completely and start again from scratch to create the ( incompatible ) RS/6000 .
8 Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris .
9 ‘ Look , Jamie , see this ! ’ she said , and she began to wind the wool so fast that it tangled up in a big knot and the ball bounced right out of her hand and rolled underneath Grandma 's chair .
10 ( 4 ) A covenant by the lessee for the repair of the premises is of no effect so far as it relates to the matters mentioned in subsection ( l ) ( a ) to ( c ) , except so far as it imposes on the lessee any of the requirements mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) ( a ) or ( c ) .
11 We also need to reassure the horse shortly afterwards that it has not lost our affection , otherwise it would lose confidence in us .
12 The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture .
13 She crouched at the firebox , shooting the wood into its mouth as quickly as it came , then cowered back from the sudden heat as the blaze was roused again .
14 This period — the most glittering episode of the golden years — illustrates the fundamental dynamics of the boom particularly well because it shows them in operation in top gear and with enormous effect .
15 He found first gear and eased the great machine slowly forward until it hit the utility room door , closed it , and pinned it fast .
16 To quote that part of this Act so far as it affects a member of a local authority may be useful .
17 This modified technique , involving the measuring of reaction time to clicks , was used by Holmes and Forster ( 1970 ) who showed that subjects were able to detect the presence of a click more rapidly when it occurred at a major constituent boundary than when it did not .
18 Britain 's biggest clothing retailer , Marks and Spencer , became the country 's most profitable retailer once more when it knocked J Sainsbury into second place with pre-tax profits up 25% to a record £736.5m ( $1.2 billion ) in the year to end-March .
19 The world , apparently , did not feel its shame so strongly that it moved its hand to its wallet .
20 Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival .
21 Prisoners passed through the place so fast that it ceased to be a camp in the true sense altogether .
22 This argument seems to me sound so far as it goes , but it does not go very far .
23 What happened next is something I shall never forget , and I have thought of that moment incessantly ever since it happened .
24 I saw a copy in our book shop here recently and it appears that it 's the official magazine of Leeds United … or is it ?
25 This turnaround of the external accounts has made the domestic performance of the ecomomy look decidedly better than it has been .
26 She shook her head so violently that it hurt her neck .
27 The dish should fit the meat so well that it does n't take too much liquid to just cover the meat .
28 because the verderers … and … the Steward of the Forest made no mention in their rolls of the name of the said page , nor of his delivery , nor of his escape , and the business of the King so far as it relates to the said boy is entirely undone , therefore they are in mercy .
29 reporter to erm again join with him in beating the drum formally so that it moves on the A twelve and the other issues was over , something which we can easily draw attention to civil servant and of
30 The sunflower does not learn by experience to turn its head more effectively as it matures , or not to turn at all if it is repeatedly electrically shocked every time it does so .
  Next page