Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secure it at the bottom , the angle becoming more gradual and eventually flat as it reaches the base . |
| 2 | Our Royals , I am afraid , are arrogant , uncharitable , greedy and downright un-Christian when it comes to preserving their own privileges and image . |
| 3 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 4 | Why could a man 's voice in the night create an ache in a person so deep and so wide that it felt as if it could never be filled ? |
| 5 | It 's so straight and so sharp that it works perfectly as a blade , but when you 've finished you can just grind it up into the ground . ’ |
| 6 | What is so odd , though , is that Lewis was tempted to argue the faith , to analyse and defend it in a manner at once so roughshod and so cerebral when it had come to him by quite other means . |
| 7 | He leaned his forehead against the stone , and was suddenly so weary and so content that it seemed to him there was nothing left to be desired in life , and nothing more he need strive for . |
| 8 | Inside , the room was bathed in a chic and sickly light , so sickly and so chic that it gave the impression of being a chartreuse light ( chartreuse is this year 's chic colour ; its sickliness needs no introduction from me ) although it was in fact pink . |
| 9 | ‘ The crying was so loud and so wonderful that it made the people astounded unless they had heard it before ’ ; she ‘ made wondrous faces and expressions ’ too . |
| 10 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
| 11 | The noise was so constant and so intense that it fabricated silence . |
| 12 | The pain which followed immediately was so sudden and so extreme that it went beyond feeling . |
| 13 | Without warning , it suddenly let out a blast of the 62 first line of Dixie on a five-tone airhorn , so loud and so unexpected that it made Alina take a startled step back . |
| 14 | It is interesting and perhaps unusual that it developed first in politics but now is used more and more in commerce and industry . |
| 15 | The assault is so unexpected and apparently unjustified that it leaves the owner not only bleeding but also deeply perplexed . |
| 16 | There is no reason , however , why the restriction should apply only to the elements that A holds in common with C and not those that it holds in common with B. That is , the overshadowing mechanism , if it operates , should reduce generalization both from A to C and from A to B. It can not , therefore , be responsible for the result obtained . |
| 17 | The news of the Seren had ignited a bright flame of hope which left her cold and utterly despondent when it shed no light at all on the mystery of her identity . |
| 18 | As officials began their investigations the board of directors of Pearl , led by chairman Einion Holland , said AMP 's takeover bid ‘ is unacceptable and totally inadequate because it fails to reflect the group 's financial strength and prospects ’ . |
| 19 | We all worked and lived at the same place and it seemed pretty cool to me at the time , but it started to become more and more negative until it got to the point where I wanted to leave … and I realised that they would n't let me ! |
| 20 | In a gesture worthy of King Canute they went further : ‘ It may become necessary to consider whether the community as a whole would not be happier and more stable if it abolished divorce altogether , ’ they wrote . |
| 21 | The sexual abuse of children is known , unfortunately , to be wide-spread today and homosexuality , at the time considered to be a psychological disorder , is becoming more and more common-place as it becomes increasingly acceptable in today 's society . |
| 22 | When partially cooked , regular pasta has a slightly transparent look , and becomes whiter and more opaque as it finishes cooking . |
| 23 | It 's getting more and more important as it goes . |
| 24 | The moon effect can be tested with a torchlight on a dark night and , sure enough , the light disc appears to get small and more intense as it rises . |
| 25 | Greek tragedy concerns a single problem that becomes more and more urgent until it culminates in crime . |
| 26 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 27 | The Wolfwood was as dark and as secretive as it had been when they journeyed through to the Forest Court with Nuadu , but here and there , deep within the Trees , Floy caught the darting movement of green and gold ; the rustling of silver-tipped leaves that looked , for a moment , like the trailing hair of a creature almost Human … |
| 28 | Charles was described as temperate in his consumption of both food and drink ( in an age and culture where gluttony and heavy drinking were often regularly practised by those who could afford it ) , and particularly careful when it came to alcohol . |
| 29 | Michael is pleased the programme will show that a family with a handicapped member can have a rewarding holiday — and equally glad that it does not try to disguise the difficulties . |
| 30 | This process of filtering and condensing is both practical and intellectually useful since it forces you to reduce the bulk of words and yet preserve the essential meaning of the text . |