Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 2 | Some of these are explored in the pages to come : computers which siphon even more power from the people who operate them ; a dynamic but degraded city ; a hippie alternative to capitalism which failed because it never really analysed the problem . |
| 3 | New labourers came out , many from Ireland where pressure on land was unusually severe ; they came from southern Irish ports , so they could not have been directly affected by the English conquest and the Scottish settlement of Ulster at the beginning of the seventeenth century , but possibly Irish landlords felt that it no longer made sense to keep up private armies and turned men out of service for this reason . |
| 4 | Whenever she felt that it nearly always turned out that she was wrong . |
| 5 | The new company is called Tulloch Timber ( Nairn ) , but yesterday the operations director , Tony Mitchell , of Nairn , stressed that it no longer had any connections with the Tulloch Group , from which it had been purchased . |