Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A military man , Captain John Smith , pulled the colony together in 1608 but it became all too clear that the colonists were not even able to feed themselves ; 1609 was remembered as ‘ the starving time ’ and the settlers were preparing to give up and leave for England when Lord De La Warr arrived with fresh supplies and new settlers in June 1610 . |
| 2 | Part of it was my upbringing , of course , but I could easily have had a violent reaction away from that if it had n't been for the inhibiting atmosphere in the company itself . |
| 3 | The South Metropolitan Co. accepted one early in 1906 and it took the number 30 . |
| 4 | More on this as it breaks . |
| 5 | As information it is far from perfect but it draws its significance from the weight and faith which parents place on their view of which items constitute the stepping-stones of their children 's ambitions . |
| 6 | The new Commonwealth was at least a genuinely voluntary union , and yet it was far from clear that it provided the answer to nationality differences that had for so long eluded the Gorbachev leadership . |
| 7 | Well they had to do , , and everybody 's got here that he 's a , he 's engaged , and there , and I mean I know I 've used doing my scribble , but here 's a little spout here like that and it 's got a tap on it , and that 's what it is . |
| 8 | He added : ‘ We have been here since 1986 but it has been used as a guest house since 1965 . |
| 9 | Moneymen hope that parliament will act faster on this than it has on company-law reform . |
| 10 | ‘ I could n't take it seriously at first because it seemed so ridiculous , but then you look in the statute book and realise the maximum penalty for this is seven years . |