Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following some reluctance to become involved in air pollution control , the federal government opted for a research role in 1955 and only slowly did it begin to intervene with the control policies adopted by the states . |
| 2 | The American Sixth Fleet is more powerful than Soviet naval groupings in the Mediterranean and as previously observed it fulfils a strategic role which is denied the Soviet navy in this region . |
| 3 | ‘ And how long did it stay behind the wall ? ’ |
| 4 | How did the team investigate and how long did it take ? |
| 5 | And how long did it take before you felt settled in ? |
| 6 | ‘ We are strangers and how long did it take us — ten to fifteen minutes — to come here ? |
| 7 | And how long did it take you to cut up , say , one of the bullocks ? |
| 8 | I appreciate Mr it 's now five years ago but how long did it take from when the door went down to you getting to the main bedroom ? |
| 9 | Of course that had always been the case , the young always did set the fashion ; but never before did it change so rapidly , never before were the older generation so pathetically afraid of being left behind . |
| 10 | Always used to draw my truncheon if I went into a place where I thought there was a burglar but never actually used it to hit them . |