Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because it luckily missed houses , they are just carrying on . ’ |
| 2 | Was it badly written ? |
| 3 | Looking back to the last war , I can clearly remember arriving at Abbeydale Council School in Sheffield to find it badly damaged by a bomb , having to transfer temporarily to Lowfields and Ann 's Road Schools and then to ’ home service ’ , which was simply a teacher in charge of a dozen or so kids in somebody 's front room . |
| 4 | So is it badly smashed this car or is it just the bumper ? |
| 5 | ‘ We thought it was a good table and three seasons ago about £120 was spent having it professionally polished . |
| 6 | Ed 's comment : While I agree with your comments in principle , Mr Huyton , it has to be said that Audrey Reid 's article in PFK also recommended shop or scrap glass but suggested getting it professionally cut to size . |
| 7 | The third way of producing a card is to present artwork to a printer and have it professionally reproduced . |
| 8 | Is it slowly savoured and really enjoyed , a splendid taste to satisfy the hunger pangs ? |
| 9 | Since like what you say , psychoanalysis was now , I mean , is it mostly centred on the ego ? |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it was necessary to attempt do so : the alternative was to confess that the administration had failed where it most wanted to succeed . |
| 11 | In terms of delivery , curiously , it most resembled milk , and in 1990 these two products , uniquely , were still delivered fresh — and perishable — each morning to the doorstep . |
| 12 | She also makes the crucial point that it is wrong to attribute it to the mass of black people , finding it most marked among some intellectual and political leaders , who also obscure the central roles played by lesbians and gays in black communities . |
| 13 | Even so , you must get it properly checked — if only to reassure yourself . |
| 14 | Nor was it properly explained to the modern British public , any more than it was in 1925 , why the ‘ discipline ’ could not be imposed direct on the economy without it being necessary to cling to another country 's shirt tails to do so . |
| 15 | Is it properly aligned ? |
| 16 | Decide what each shot is going to include and get it properly focused and framed before you press the button . |
| 17 | Was it properly refereed or passed through at the urgings of the editor ? |
| 18 | Whatever the temptations , if you genuinely want to sell an item , take it to a reputable auction house and have it properly valued . ’ |
| 19 | This arrangement was terminated as it apparently consumed too much valuable wood . |
| 20 | It would be quite an easy job ; it only involved erecting another partition , cleaning the floorboards and re-glazing the window . |
| 21 | It might be that it only affected the absorption and emission processes of black bodies and did not represent an abiding individuality — like drips from a tap which merge into the mass of fluid lying in the basin . |
| 22 | Barnard Castle chief inspector Malcolm Fordy said while the percentage rise was ‘ massive ’ it only represented 300 crimes more . |
| 23 | The Dounreay nuclear plant , the largest nearby industrial commercial operation , has said that it only discharged 1.8 kilograms of cadmium over 10 months last year . |
| 24 | If you 're wanting to take er early retirement and erm you 're wanting enhancement say you retire at fifty nine and you want some enhancement , can you ask for enhancement sort of up to sixty five or has it only got to be up to sixty ? |
| 25 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 26 | ‘ But it only looked as if it did n't go in , ’ said Uncle Albert . |
| 27 | But it was sort of let me think it was over and it only looked about that big . |
| 28 | If it is true that he saw the Church in the form of a pyramid , as many people did , with authority flowing down from himself to cardinals , bishops and then to priests , then a Council had no place in any such scheme of things : it only confused the pattern of authority . |
| 29 | Your letter was sent on to Italy and the post to and fro is so awful it only arrived back here last week when I was in London . |
| 30 | We saw common guillemot , Brünnich 's guillemot , razorbill , black guillemot and puffin : it only needed little auk to complete all the auks on the European list ! |