Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government were part of the process of blocking the directive until it was so badly mauled that it is now very different from the one that we first saw and debated in the House a month ago . |
| 2 | University posts , however , were an attractive means of obliging friends , and a good deal safer , for popular feeling was rarely aroused and it was relatively easy to escape from an importunate friend by arguing that the place had already been promised . |
| 3 | Ven exclaimed , ‘ I 've since realised that it was the beginning of the end for me ! ’ |
| 4 | Time and again a landowner , the man who actually has the most to lose since it is his land , is willing to donate corners of his fields for ponds or tree planting , as his contribution to the environmental compromise of a land-drainage scheme ; but then a letter from his agent arrives , demanding that these corners be heavily compensated or even bought by the water authority , as payment for the concessions made . |
| 5 | Pameton is little publicised because it is of value only to that small number of people who may misuse medicines . |
| 6 | Car and bodies had been so badly charred that it was some time before they could be identified . |
| 7 | This is something I 've suggested before , something I keep on suggesting because it 's all I can think of . |
| 8 | One of the chief glories of this house is that it has been little altered since it was built around the middle of the sixteenth century . |
| 9 | He ducked under the thief 's sword arm and brought his own blade around in an arc so incompetently misjudged that it hit the man flat-first and jolted out of the wizard 's hand . |
| 10 | The need for war , then , was fairly generally accepted , although it was widely recognized that it brought destruction and death . |
| 11 | Overall the unit worked very well but the initial feeling that it looked really smart slowly evaporated once it had sat on the desk for an hour or two . |
| 12 | Thus William Gilpin remarks in 1791 that Petworth House is badly situated because it does not lie at the centre of its park , but at an extremity , where it is elbowed by the churchyard ; Repton , whom Mr Rushworth thinks of employing at Sotherton , explains that proximity to a village may lessen dignity . |
| 13 | Grief is most powerfully eased when it can be shared . |
| 14 | And here was the bonus : the positive charge of the proton is so effectively shielded that it will now be able to encroach much closer to the nucleus of a neighbouring atom without being repelled ; the chance of bumping into it and undergoing nuclear fusion , ‘ cold fusion ’ , thereby became a real possibility . |
| 15 | If Berg was successfully to allege that it was fraudulently misled , it must show that some natural person connected with it had been misled , and Berg could not do this . |
| 16 | Above all territory must be effectively occupied or it would fall to the partisans ; this kept French troops from the battlefield . |
| 17 | He eventually concludes that it involved another acquisition — this time the American firm of Keebler in 1974 . |
| 18 | I carry on walking till it 's really dark and all the cars have got their lights on . |
| 19 | Geoff Hamilton , in his Practical Gardening Course ( noted above ) , describes Latin as ‘ that old , dead , incomprehensible language ’ , although he then confusingly adds that it ‘ provides an international understanding of plants ’ . |
| 20 | Dioxin was indeed found at one Rhone-Poulenc dump in France , its manager nervously explaining that it was good French dioxin , and not a nasty Italian import . |
| 21 | Its omission from Q1692 is easily enough explained if it was a late addition to the show — too late to catch the printers — and the score itself offers some evidence that this was indeed the case : Purcell , as we have already seen , left blank about 60 bars of the instrumental bass line . |
| 22 | Einstein proposed a box full of radiation with a clock-operated shutter , so arranged that it was open for a time At , letting out some radiation during this period . |
| 23 | The only trouble was that the photograph was so arranged that it would be very easy for a picture editor to crop the product out of the picture altogether ! |
| 24 | Went round and put his hand in to see if it was dry . |
| 25 | I just decided to put it in to see if it tastes better . |
| 26 | I just decided to put it in to see if it tastes better . |
| 27 | And er something I switched the erm recorder on just before you walked in to see if it recorded . |
| 28 | ‘ Did you enjoy seeing your father 's studio ? ’ she suddenly asked and it seemed to Jenna that not only did Alain stiffen alarmingly but Marguerite appeared to ice over . |
| 29 | The wind must be blowing from them to you , since this not only minimises the noise you may inadvertently make but it prevents your scent blowing towards the rabbits and giving them advance warning that all 's not well . |
| 30 | Elrond 's adamant refusal to take the Ring is because he has considered its advantages but is wise enough to see that it would ruin him utterly . |