Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah it zoomed through did n't it ? |
| 2 | But one day in late summer , when I was pointing the otter out to my passengers , and as usual it got up to move out of sight , I saw to my surprise that it was followed by two cubs ! |
| 3 | It goes on to explain how audiovisual media , and video in particular , can be used to help bring about a process of change in people 's lives . |
| 4 | ‘ It goes on to explain how the geneticists and the neurochemists — neurotransmitters and all that — are in on the act = ’ His red eyes searched mine once more , then turned away to stare at the solitary lamp . |
| 5 | Indeed , it became increasingly torn apart by sectarian and ideological division . |
| 6 | As the pleasurable feelings which first fuelled my psychological addiction decreased and began to turn sour , it became easier to give up the habit , something which would not be possible with a physically addictive drug such as heroin . |
| 7 | Although it became easier to speak freely at home , only Herzen 's periodicals escaped the censor entirely . |
| 8 | Accordingly , instead of the war being over in a short time — as was thought by many — it became literally bogged down in trench warfare never previously experienced . |
| 9 | Unquestionably the degree of proportionality it produces overall contrasts strikingly with the disproportionality of British general election results . |
| 10 | Perhaps they did n't want to scare me and thought it better not to say too much , but I wish they had said something . |
| 11 | They may suck on it until it dissolves sufficiently to swallow rather than chew it and so meal-times take a very long time . |
| 12 | For though it stands so isolated today from human kind , St Mary 's church was a mother-church for a wide area round about , as befitted the spiritual centre of a royal estate ; and we do not know how far back a building stood on this site . |
| 13 | And because this is a classic excursion , remember that others may be making it too ; in summer I can imagine it becoming exceedingly crowded up here and the path to the Lac de Gaube an ant-trail of pedestrians bumper to bumper . |
| 14 | If it looks scruffy , then it implies that you are scruffy , if it looks badly thought out , unclear , then it implies that you are badly thought out and unclear . |
| 15 | I think it looks just looks just just a mess now . |
| 16 | It looks so do n't it ? |
| 17 | But it has probably changed more in the last 40 years than at any other time . |
| 18 | In the case of Jupiter it has probably had only a small effect on the rate of loss of heat . |
| 19 | It has evidently come on since then . |
| 20 | This is a slightly complicated theory , so naturally it has not become as well-known as ‘ schema and correction ’ … |
| 21 | Scott hints his appointment may also herald B&W 's return to TV advertising — a medium it has not exploited recently . |
| 22 | It has not turned out that way , of course . |
| 23 | Then Arthur Miller added : ‘ The thing to remember is that it has not gone away for ever . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps prejudice now has other targets , but it has not gone away . |
| 25 | Johnston said : ‘ It has not gone anywhere near as well as I expected at Everton . |
| 26 | The good news is that the most common infestation , by the woodworm — or anobium punctatum or furniture beetle , call it what you will — can be treated , so long as it has not gone too far into the timbers , at a cost of a few hundred pounds . |
| 27 | Its sense of smell must function for it to assess horses it has not met before , and also to fully recognise old companions it may meet in a different environment . |
| 28 | According to the Cambridge-based World Conservation Monitoring Centre , almost all of this oil has already been washed ashore or is in the shallows along 200km of Saudi coast ; it has not moved down to the southern Gulf , where most of the turtles and dugongs live . |
| 29 | Critics may argue that it has not moved enough with the times , is not as up-to-date in its special effects as its counterparts across the Atlantic , but this perhaps highlights its attraction . |
| 30 | ‘ During my last pregnancy my husband and I went through a really tough time — in fact it has not ended yet and we are undecided as to whether we are going to separate or not . |