Example sentences of "it [adv] [det] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Before this century , Roman Ilchester was poorly known , and even Haverfield , in 1906 , thought it little more than a village .
2 I do n't know how we escaped it so much but we have you see .
3 Fortunately , most of them try one flight and dislike it so much that they avoid flying again .
4 We both like driving it so much that we end up using it all the time , ’ says the Stirlingshire chiropodist .
5 He liked it so much that he decided to laugh .
6 George II liked it so much that he reared 3,000 birds in Richmond Park for his Christmas guests .
7 I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good .
8 And I just liked reading it so much that I thought you 'd like to read it too .
9 I hate doing it so much that I think I will find just one more excuse to put off the preaching .
10 The inevitable clear soup followed ( pot au feu this time ) ; the sole was served in a delicate sauce almost imperceptibly flavoured with cheese , and the dean 's daughter appreciated it so much that the Colonel 's initial peevishness began to wear off .
11 In fact he had worried about it so much that he felt now that he had done it all .
12 At times I think perhaps I imagined it , wished it so much that now it seems real , but it was n't like that .
13 In the same year Darwin set sail on the Beagle taking with him Lyell 's " Principles " and read it so much that he had to ask the ship 's carpenter to rebind it in wood .
14 Everything seemed to be changing , and this excited and worried her at the same time : she thought about it so much that her face had a permanently screwed up , wondering look .
15 They bashed hell out of it so much that it bust wide open , and we had to use all our reserves to hold them .
16 It changed it so much that you co committed an offence that ended you up in
17 In fact , they like it SO much that they 've moved house EIGHTEEN times .
18 She enjoyed it so much that she fancied celebrating her next birthday with a Concorde flight to New York .
19 One does n't resent it so much when life does .
20 I mean your examination work , for in your other work you need no encouragement , for you like it so much as it is yourself finding expression in words . ’
21 One of his clients was Mike McGear , Paul McCartney 's brother and together they got up to some hair-raising pranks like trying to give a client a beer shampoo but drinking more of the vital ingredients before it so much as touched a single hair !
22 This was an ordeal which , like all others , would eventually end and although she had made up her mind to suffer it , nothing obliged her to accord it so much as one shred of thought ; or memory .
23 ‘ By the way , ’ she began , hardly able to credit that , when earlier that morning her car had been such a concern to her , great expanses of time should now elapse without her giving it so much as a thought , ‘ could you tell me the name of the garage where my car — ’
24 I know this is really putting on you , but … well , I would appreciate it so much and will recompense you in any way I can . ’
25 I 've thought about it so much and I feel it must and can be something wonderful for all of us .
26 and we enjoyed it so much and it was only ten pound for ten days ,
27 This is not so much because John Hart , the Malvern College schoolmaster , and his nine colleagues would have otherwise found themselves paying a hefty tax bill on the concessionary school places given to their sons eight years ago ; nor is it so much because of the thousands of other employees who would also have faced tax bills for other concessionary benefits .
28 If someone is given too much change in a supermarket , for instance , they might keep the money claiming that they need it much more than the supermarket does and , anyway , nobody would find out .
29 The effect , claims Wren , has been significant : ‘ Staff are using it much more than they used to . ’
30 In my view Labour 's stunning defeat requires of it much more than a commitment to PR and a pre-electoral arrangement with the Liberal Democrats .
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