Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a start he 'd given up being a hippie , which must have been a relief to the Fish , not only professionally but because it meant the Fish could play Charlie soul records — Otis Redding and all — the only music he liked . |
| 2 | It was slightly damp not in patches but all over as if it had been soaked in water then wrung out and left to dry through the night . |
| 3 | In either case , an unauthorised practitioner will have committed a criminal offence under the Financial Services Act , and pleading that he did it only once or that it happened by accident is not going to impress anyone . |
| 4 | It is in domestic architecture that Ostia provides the most interesting revelations for here are astonishingly well preserved remains of insulae , the tenement blocks which must have been constructed in quantity in Rome itself and , since Ostia is so near and as it had such close association with the capital , probably of a very similar character . |
| 5 | It is of great credit to the Committee that it describes the situation so clearly and that it points out many of the problems that have come about as a result of Government policy towards private residential care over the past few years . |
| 6 | At the moment it was the traditional tale of going up to Jackson 's at 10 in the morning after an all-night session at Dobell 's — wine we drank in those days , Poppet , wine that was wine not this filthy MUCK — and demanding double portions of oysters all round and when it came to pay no one had a penny , so Dobell , who even then still had the charm of a boy of twenty , and a slim waist to go with it , said he would bring in one of the engravings from his collection , and Gaston , who always recognised a gentleman — not like the CLODS who run hostelries nowadays — with tears in his eyes said it was an honour , an honour to serve Mr Dobell and his friends . |
| 7 | If you go much faster than that it gets windy very quickly , although the heater can still turn the cabin into blast furnace . |
| 8 | With a final darting glance to ensure that her appearance was in order she made her way as nervously downstairs as if it had been she herself about to marry . |
| 9 | This study compares the methods used to diagnose pyloric stenosis at Camperdown children 's hospital during two periods , 1974–7 and 1988–91 , to determine whether imaging is being used more frequently and whether it has led to earlier diagnosis and better management of pyloric stenosis . |
| 10 | When they reached her floor eventually , she bade him a perfunctory farewell and stepped out of the lift with a feeling of release , hurrying towards her apartment , heart and hormones defeating any intention of greeting Luke 's arrival as coolly as if it did n't matter to her one way or the other . |
| 11 | Complying with her appeal , Dada abandoned his kedgeree and , sucking his moustache inwards always with him a sign of annoyance he picked up the viburnum , still with its precious burden , opened the bottom sash of a long window , and flung out the double butterfly as viciously as if it had been a slug in the salad . |
| 12 | At the editorial conference Rain brushed aside Holly 's error of judgement as blithely as if it had been her own . |
| 13 | For Skaller saw everything again , as it had been then twenty-five years ago , as clearly as if it had been yesterday . |
| 14 | At once I can see Annexe B , Summerchild 's list of possible members of the Unit , as clearly as if it had just come out of the porridge oats box . |
| 15 | And so it was as the " candidate " that he spoke to them , his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere , his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine , his lean , dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men . |
| 16 | She saw it all as plainly as if it had been magically transported from Yorkshire and spread out on the quayside , the moors stretching away in the distance until they met the skyline . |
| 17 | Through the brushed cotton of her sweater she could feel the pressure of his fingers , his touch scorching her as surely as if it had been on her bare skin . |
| 18 | The battery in your readers equipment could be a NiCad and it would be ruined if he had left it on , just as surely as if it had been a lead acid battery . |
| 19 | It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination . |
| 20 | From the village centre , the Thornton road descends sharply initially and when it levels , a side road called Oddies Lane turns off to the right . |
| 21 | She realized that she was feeling it too , frozen to the marrow in this bitter East wind which kept whipping her cloak off her shoulders as contemptuously as if it had been made of pocket-handkerchieves instead of tablecloths , her stomach hollow and aching , her head feeling light and aching a little too . |
| 22 | You 've got to look at the other positive thing as well though that if it comes out as a target and there are specific training needs there throughout the |
| 23 | So you see , that needs to go in there so that when it prints it out again , we come and ask you |
| 24 | To someone without this discriminative capacity , either congenitally or because it has not been developed , a thing can present a blue appearance , but he can not see it as blue . |
| 25 | We also recognise that there is a tremendous problem for deferred pensioners in achieving reasonable transfer values er er er it 's a massive problem for them , even where they could find perhaps something to do with that money and a scheme that would do them better , not always , because there , there are people that give bad advice , but there are some that go into it very thoroughly and when it comes down to the bit the transfer value they receive makes it im practically impossible for them to do it . |
| 26 | This is an area where a diesel car scores very well and as it uses less fuel than a petrol car , it emits less noxious gas . |
| 27 | Midland also admitted failing to supervise the fund managers to prevent them concentrating their stock holdings too narrowly and that it failed to maintain a register of the holders of six of the trusts or the amount of their holdings . |