Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that while we 've been together it 's been the activity you 've indulged in most . |
| 2 | How much it costs is n't important . |
| 3 | But if the breed has been chosen for its low-fat characteristics this wo n't happen , however organically it has been reared . |
| 4 | And apparently it had been . |
| 5 | Apparently it had been placed there in the pre-dawn . |
| 6 | Apparently it had been reported hopping about in a car park close to the village . |
| 7 | Apparently it had been near here , not in Bahdu , that the Greek merchants had been killed the year before . |
| 8 | ‘ Apparently it 's been splashed all over the Standard this evening . |
| 9 | Apparently it 's been practising that technique , and had a sample of the little thing with it on its road trip last week . |
| 10 | Yeah , Buddhist religious group , but they , no they 've eh , apparently it 's been sold again now . |
| 11 | Apparently it has been recognised for over a decade that chlorine from chlorofluorocarbons may deplete the stratospheric ozone layer . |
| 12 | Apparently it has been similar to the crew of a huge tanker somewhere on the high seas sailing hither and tither no doubt , for four long years after setting out , and returning just in time for the recent elections . |
| 13 | For too long it had been treated as a Cinderella service . |
| 14 | I do n't know how long it had been there . |
| 15 | I reckoned it to be about nine months , so I asked him how long it had been . |
| 16 | Naturally , the fragrant smell of wine reminded Cranston of how long it had been since he had refreshed himself so he ordered a large jug and the deepest goblet to be found in the kitchen . |
| 17 | And as I say as I say I do n't ken how long it had been there but that see that likely about the same time as the as the mill was heightened and er the kiln would 've been putting on . |
| 18 | For Dr Neil the feel of her , so soft , the scent of her hair , and of McAllister herself , was so wild and sweet and struck him with such force that his breathing grew a little ragged and his body reminded him of how long it had been since he had satisfied it . |
| 19 | er do you know the er , it looked a fairly new building , I do n't know how long it had been going , she 's a member of the something club |
| 20 | I do n't know how long it 's been on the bed , but it 's far too damp to sleep in . |
| 21 | Erm I said it was unfortunate that John took after my family and that was your cue to ask a bit more , I said we were having problems erm and also the business about Martin 's back , the tests , what problems , how long it 's been ongoing , what are the possible future problems arising from that . |
| 22 | ‘ I wonder how long it 's been since you visited that fine old building , Miss Williams ! |
| 23 | It makes me wonder just how long it 's been going on , or if it was merely a way to get Calder out of an awkward situation . ’ |
| 24 | No-one knows how long it has been there , high up in the courtyard of the Palazzo Segni Masetti , which now belongs largely to the Associazione Commercianti . |
| 25 | How long it has been , but really , you look just the same . |
| 26 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 27 | Perhaps it had been a decision taken by a General of KGB in the Lubyanka , perhaps the papers had gone to the Politburo or even to the President , but the matter had not been pushed . |
| 28 | Perhaps it had been a matter of legal or political expediency . |
| 29 | Or perhaps it had been clear a long time before that . |
| 30 | Perhaps it had been driven there by a storm . |