Example sentences of "[adv] it [adv] [verb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it just grew and matured until it took in all their emotions , but his hands began to smooth her back and shoulders , until in the end his fingers were threaded through her hair and his big , warm hands were holding her steady while he kissed her with mesmerising thoroughness . |
| 2 | In doing so it also extended and sharpened the tools by which it assured standards across the growing territory of higher education , but at the same time it struggled with the problem of those institutions which increasingly felt that they had served a long enough apprenticeship . |
| 3 | Er recordwise it never happened and does never seem to happen but we can go to America and work in the Irish centres and the Irish clubs and be an Irish band but er the way we could come over here and do a concert to people in general , it does n't I think the radio situation in America for years was al always very if you were folk you played in folk programme , if you were country you 'll play in the country prog whereas here in Britain there 's one great thing with the radio system , people tend to play whatever you know if it 's easy listening programme they play whatever is is nice and easy listening you know . |
| 4 | This great tower loomed over Rome — as indeed it still does although halved by a later earthquake — dominating the Capitol , the Colosseum , the Quirinal and the route from the Lateran to St Peter 's , and was described by one chronicler as touching the clouds . |
| 5 | Lyrically it either castigates or canonises the Kray twins , I ca n't tell which . |