Example sentences of "it [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , we reached the stage where she could avoid it altogether a few days before a period , but she continued to drink one or two small cups a day at other times . |
| 2 | We found it altogether an extremely fascinating place to wander around , but not much revenue work for us apart from " showing the flag " . |
| 3 | Or is it rather a transgressive reinscription , a demonic perversion of the sacred ? |
| 4 | Leila had planned to keep it rather a subdued affair , but another natro group happened along at the small site they were using and livened things up a little . |
| 5 | ‘ Is n't it rather a long walk ? ’ |
| 6 | Is n't it rather a waste of all we feel to ignore it ? |
| 7 | Aphrosyne is my real name , but people over here find it rather a mouthful — like the Greek part of my surname . |
| 8 | But for many people is n't it the case that the the church wedding is an an and the promises made the vows made before God and er before the the congregation , for many people they 're just a sort of rather erm oh dear how can I put it rather a flimsy frippery erm that they just feel it 's essential to have so that they can have the nice pictures and and look back on on a church wedding . |
| 9 | I find it rather a surprising one but good . |
| 10 | You may recall that this committee has asked for a health and housing conference but we seem to get under it rather a lot of times , nothing it appears to be happening . |
| 11 | ‘ He said he 'd read it somewhere a couple of years ago , and it had struck him so deeply that he could n't shake it from his mind . |
| 12 | Just keep it Well put it somewhere a bit safer than that . |
| 13 | He successfully invaded Sudan to the south in 1820 , making it effectively a colony , and in some eyes even a part of Egypt . |
| 14 | They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake . |
| 15 | Is it only a fortnight ago , Dorothea asked herself in amazement ? |
| 16 | Life as the artists had known it only a few weeks earlier no longer existed . |
| 17 | There is , then , a long-established subcultural reading of Brief Encounter that cuts across its ostensible/mainstream meaning , but does this have any substantive base in the text itself or is it only a collective fantasy , a shared ‘ special thrill ’ ? |
| 18 | They told me that no one had ever been hurt like this ; but was n't it only a question of time ? |
| 19 | You would n't have believed from the pristine state of the scrubbed room overlooking the main road to London that a man had tried to starve himself to death in it only a few weeks before . |
| 20 | Emily sighed heavily , no more would she sit beneath those trees reading or idling away her days so carelessly as she had done , was it only a few short weeks ago ? |
| 21 | Is it only a paper tiger , or does it really have teeth ? |
| 22 | Another 36% liked it quite a lot , but almost as many men enjoyed it only a little , not very much or not at all ( 7% of our sample say they ca n't remember how they felt ) . |
| 23 | Nor is it only a matter of government consulting people about what it proposes to do . |
| 24 | But is this a legal or is it only a political right ? |
| 25 | Then he stopped , remembering that his status aboard the Simonova carried with it only a limited amount of authority . |
| 26 | ‘ Sam 's going to a new school , ’ Bella said , and time was oddly foreshortened in Albert 's head so that two or three minutes of silence passed between them and he thought it only a second . |
| 27 | • Decide on the space that is wholly yours , even if it only a table somewhere . |
| 28 | I saw him use it only a week ago . ’ |
| 29 | Was it only a desire for conquest ? |
| 30 | This is not a new problem , nor is it only a local problem . |