Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of the Hexagon , you 'll have three legs provided , but one of the delights of this shape is that only rarely does it need bridle adjustment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is particularly striking that some of these reviewers , when discussing recordings by English ensembles , praise what they assume to be the impeccable musicological credentials of what they are hearing , so clear does it seem to European eyes that early-music performance in England is conducted under the vigilant eyes of scholars . |
| 4 | I had n't read pornography until I wrote the book and when I read it I found it was so badly written it meant nothing to me . |
| 5 | Because so many people so badly wanted it to succeed when it did they almost believed it was because they had willed it to . |
| 6 | Near one of these , a guardian-baboon squatted , on a leash long enough to enable it to run after any would-be shoplifter and seize his thigh in its jaws . |
| 7 | When I examined the differences between success and failure in change projects or development efforts , I found that one major difference was simply time — staying with it long enough to make it work . |
| 8 | Nails calmed down enough to stop it hurting , but made it quite plain that he was agreeing to nothing . |
| 9 | No , the two pro , the thing that the two prongs sit in is cracked so naturally say it had to go into a hole that size , right ? |
| 10 | Perhaps best to let it go at that . |
| 11 | That pair obviously just had it coming . |
| 12 | so just leave it going , you , but you understand why the survey 's being done ? |
| 13 | I could n't even imagine what this sensation might be like any more , so utterly had it evaporated . |
| 14 | And in fact the greater the difference is , the less easy does it become to dismiss one of the differing parties as a mere inadequate version of the other . |
| 15 | I figure I better just keep it coming , anything I could think of . |
| 16 | I only just made it last time . ’ |
| 17 | Experienced planners could do this job in three or four hours — we had to arrange four meetings each lasting three and a half hours and they still only just got it done . |
| 18 | Grandad Terry Potter had only just installed it to stop Adam 's bids to get into the street at Barnsley , South Yorks . |
| 19 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 20 | She wished she could just go back to bed and start the day all over again , only somehow making it turn out completely normal this time . |
| 21 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 22 | Only gradually did it emerge that she was rather a miniature whirlwind , perhaps an inch shorter even than Charlotte , but so slender that she escaped looking like a pocket edition . |
| 23 | It seemed to have been present with her throughout her sleep so promptly had it appeared when she woke . |
| 24 | In one of the most tantalising promises yet made in the computer industry , Unix System Laboratories Inc is claiming that independent software vendors who port their applications to its Destiny desktop implementation of Unix SVR4 will only have to do so once to have it run on the disparate architectures of Intel Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc RISC , MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC , Hewlett-Packard Co PA RISC and IBM Corp 's RS/6000 RISC . |
| 25 | Only later had it occurred to him to wonder whether he should feel alarmed by Charlotte 's anxious tone or flattered that she felt she could turn to him for advice . |
| 26 | Only later did it emerge that the Germans had supported his candidature for the post of High Commissioner in Danzig , and that he had since 1920 been on very friendly terms with Baron Ernst von Wiesäker , the head of the political section of the German Foreign Office . |
| 27 | Only much later did it occur to her that this was her failure : academically self-sufficient and wholly self-centred she saw their sullenness and ignorance as their concern and their fault . |
| 28 | In the ease studies so far considered it has already been made clear that the particular study itself is , as it were , the product of a set of concerns in politics . |
| 29 | Some of it was charmingly primitive , some of it so exotically painted it took your breath away . |
| 30 | Only now had it occurred to him that it was moving along quite different channels . |