Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] it [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Water the plant well and keep warm and shaded for a day or two while it settles down . |
| 2 | I think the basic problem is erm it goes back further than that and it comes down to the organisation that my colleague here belongs to . |
| 3 | Although at this time of year , before the monsoon , the water is at its lowest , it was nevertheless chest-deep in places and fast-flowing — turquoise and white where it swirled around boulders near the edge , dark green in the broad sweep of the central canal . |
| 4 | The French Government 's response , as swift and dramatic as it turned out to be highly risky , was to call its own referendum . |
| 5 | I also used to compare the buzzard to a kite , being allowed to gain height gradually and seeming to grow smaller and smaller until it went out of control and soared off into the distance with the wind . |
| 6 | The path widened and flattened as it came out of the Grove and she caught Nick 's hand to make him run faster . |
| 7 | He dialled Jo 's number in Rome , and grew lonelier and sadder as it rang on and on , unanswered . |
| 8 | The film is so dull and wordy that it bears out in every frame Powell 's assertion that Pascal ‘ knew as much about directing as a cow does about playing the piano . ’ |
| 9 | Now what happened was originally that I lost compression on pistons three and four and it worked out there was a very thin channel from piston three to four on the head gasket and erm basically it ruined part of the engine and the whole report said that basically I want a new engine . |
| 10 | Sometimes in the Cauldhame Arms I stand up at the urinal , but most if it ends up running down my hands or legs . |
| 11 | With the velocity , as long as it stays up there , it 's travelling in the direction away from the starting line . |
| 12 | As long as it came back out to where it is now . |