Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning to the mirror , she saw herself in the long white silk dress , clinging to her slender body , curving off the shoulders , accentuating her fine collarbones , tight at the waist then flaring out with clouds of taffeta below that made it seem as if she floated rather than walked . |
| 2 | She was pleased with herself for selling the Noah 's Ark but sorry to see it go , with the little Finn in jeans and tee-shirt inside it . |
| 3 | Telethon '92 raised one and a quarter million pounds for charities across the Central region — recipients like Play for Children in Nottingham will be sorry to see it go . |
| 4 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |
| 5 | You 'll be sorry to see it go |
| 6 | Yes , yes , sorry to see it go , but it 's got to go , so that 's it . |
| 7 | I shall be extremely sorry to see it leave . |
| 8 | Although BT said they were continuing to look at the results of the experiment , initial findings included the fact that not only was BT satisfied with productivity achieved but the staff themselves were only too sorry to see it end . |
| 9 | Very sorry , I 've thoroughlky enjoyed myself here and I 'll be sorry to see it closed |
| 10 | Alright did that make it make it a little bit better ? |
| 11 | ‘ And does that make it taste otherwise ? ’ |
| 12 | That covers it dun n it ? |
| 13 | It therefore seems odd to find it argued , as one frequently does , that past attempts to do exactly this in relation to various parts of the British Dominions have been , ‘ technically ’ , ineffective . |
| 14 | Okay and if say it crescendoed in bar two you would go like that Say it diminuendoed in bar four you would do that . |
| 15 | Colic is a sharp pain in the stomach or intestines of a baby , that causes it to cry uncontrollably . |
| 16 | What 's that thing , something you do that causes it to get chopped off ? |
| 17 | Unfortunately IBM has not submitted it yet to the likes of X/Open Co Ltd , neither has it signed any deals with the likes of DEC to push MQSeries on its own machines : instead the firm is relying on the system 's own merits to attract software developers . |
| 18 | It may be possible to encourage it to stay in one area by fitting a spotlight of the mercury vapour variety . |
| 19 | Lavender did n't quite believe that , but she was not prepared to risk it happening . |
| 20 | But does this make it play a less significant role in overcoming his problem ? |
| 21 | So it 's funny to see it written in stone , as it were , something that I did off the top of my head . ’ |
| 22 | This made it appear that he threw the ball when bowling at his fastest ; when he reduced his pace he was relatively innocuous . |
| 23 | Alternatively the higher mobility of the shift produced by this protein ( Figure 2b ) suggests that it may be smaller in size than Oct-1 allowing it to bind adjacent to bound NF1 and activate gene expression synergistically . |
| 24 | Presumably should we therefore have something that covers quality , oh sorry no this covers it does n't it , yeah , o.k . |
| 25 | Some say it tells ‘ the entire story of architecture ’ , others ‘ the entire story of architectural mistakes ’ . |
| 26 | You know some say it had a trunk |
| 27 | Some say it works . |
| 28 | But some say it 's been too high a price to pay . |
| 29 | Indeed so popular has it become that its designer has achieved the ultimate scientific accolade of eponymy ( having a phenomenon , method or piece of equipment named after oneself ) , for the apparatus is known as the ‘ morris water maze ’ ( Figure 9.5 ) and within the last few years has virtually replaced the skinner box as necessary equipment for all psychology labs . |
| 30 | But where this occurred it took the form of state control and the resulting technologies and forms of industrialisation differed little from their capitalist counterparts . |