Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its working was rather fitful and it failed in a couple of astounding thunderstorms they had . |
| 2 | This central finding of the study was intensely controversial since it implied , firstly , that the USSR showed signs of fundamental weakness and was less of a ‘ threat ’ and , secondly , it appeared to run counter to the view of some econometricians that developing countries , especially those purchasing advanced foreign technology in large quantities , must eventually catch up . |
| 3 | It was dead right but it gave me a tough act to follow and only Joyce 's famous ‘ George , do n't do that ’ would fit the bill . |
| 4 | Bagnall 's story of godnose had evidently been rather badly mutilated before it reached him . |
| 5 | The middle of the passage was , however , rather different since it concerned a motorcyclist 's deliberations about the nature of empiricism , and it was considerably more difficult to understand . |
| 6 | A little embarrassed because it looked as though she had been prying , Meredith murmured , ‘ I 'm not much of a cook . ’ |
| 7 | The following weekend , the French referendum on Sept. 20 on ratification of the Maastricht Treaty produced a majority in favour , but so narrow that it failed to dispel growing doubts about the integration process . |
| 8 | I was invited to write this article before the election , around the proposition that the policy differences between the parties were so narrow that it did not really matter who won — a political worldweariness with which I sharply disagreed . |
| 9 | It was furnished with an ancient iron bedstead and a wooden table so decrepit that it collapsed as I walked past it . |
| 10 | When it was midnight and Rodrigo was fast asleep , the leper breathed against him between his shoulders , and that breath was so strong that it passed through him , even through his breast ; and he awoke , being astounded , and felt for the leper by him , and found him not ; and he began to call him , but there was no reply . |
| 11 | It was as if I suffered from an optical illusion so strong that it consumed my other senses . |
| 12 | A physical longing so strong that it seemed her very survival must be linked to it . |
| 13 | Maybe hatred could grow so strong that it became a force of its own , he thought — a real physical force . |
| 14 | There was no flat black Córdoba hat , but it was the same man and Maggie felt an almost bitter rush of disappointment , so strong that it took her by surprise . |
| 15 | This camp was so strong that it remained as a major fortress for the Garonne region for centuries to follow . |
| 16 | At that time of year the sun was so low that it shone directly into the livingroom during the whole of its brief traverse of the horizon . |
| 17 | Outside Europe the struggle in the sugar islands was less destructive than it had been 50 or 60 years earlier . |
| 18 | Constance could not decide whether or not his diffidence sprang from fear or indifference , and she found it puzzling that someone as confident as Nicky in every other area of his life should be so timid when it came to love . |
| 19 | Even so , the decision of the 19th Palestine National Council in November 1988 to take this highly accommodationist road was not an easy one , and was only possible because it had become apparent that the world now recognized that no substantive peace negotiations were likely to materialize without formal PLO participation . |
| 20 | Very soon , even before they went under dome , Arcady surrounded them from horizon to horizon , its size so prodigious that it banished all Ari 's ideas of what a city might be . |
| 21 | The music they played gradually grew familiar to Alice ; it was music for the violin , the famous Violin Concerto , and it sounded very strange on the flute and guitar , so strange that it took her a moment or two to recognize it . |
| 22 | It was a movement so subtle that it seemed to occur from the corner of her eye . |
| 23 | Yet the Berlin settlement was less stable than it looked . |
| 24 | The appeals court found that the Koons copying of the photo was so complete that it went beyond the bounds of the ‘ fair use ’ doctrine , which allows artists , authors and journalists to ‘ quote ’ from other works . |
| 25 | His triumph was so complete that it seemed to him that he must surely radiate some evident joy . |
| 26 | Unfortunately the material at the tide-line was so sloppy that it ran out of the probe and no cores were brought home . |
| 27 | Her throat was so dry that it hurt . |
| 28 | It used the allocation , came back and said that its original estimate was entirely wrong and it required an extra £48 million — the original estimate was £48 million out . |
| 29 | Although the influence of Cubism on the German painters was less direct than it had been in the development of Futurism ( the work of Delaunay which the Germans most admired , for instance , was no longer really Cubist at all ) , unlike the Italians the Germans made no attempt to disguise their interest in the movement , and several of the artists of the Blaue Reiter actually thought of themselves as Cubist painters . |
| 30 | Sometimes she was so funny that it seemed she ought to be given a show of her own . |