Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore it seeks to highlight the central importance of localities and localism in Northern Ireland .
2 ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor .
3 She could n't care less what he had been up to , but quite suddenly it had become imperative that she steer the conversation away from herself and divert the interest he was showing in her .
4 So suddenly it had come , all they were working for .
5 When the script was being written , when the film was being filmed , the violence was still very much in vogue ; suddenly it had disappeared .
6 Quite suddenly it seemed fitting that the suit of her husband should garb a man who had slaughtered his brides : there was in that , somewhere , a gleam of relevance .
7 But suddenly it seemed to become very angry with the English visitor , who was talking to it .
8 She pushed the feeling from her , for suddenly it did scare her a little .
9 Suddenly it 's gone public ; it rushed out
10 Now suddenly it 's happened , so you get a lot of new people coming in .
11 ‘ But I would like to thank them and let them know how very grateful I am and how much it helps to know his grave is being cared for . ’
12 And she already knew how much it hurt to keep trying and trying , only to fail .
13 They would all chip in later , of course , but she was too shattered right now , they must all be too shattered right now , to start doing sums , working out who had eaten what and how much it had cost .
14 It had been a lie and the whole class had laughed when Philip had asked him how much it had cost , even Mrs Mills .
15 Peter wondered how much it had cost .
16 By that time Barbara knew Leo very well , and she guessed how much it had cost him to tell her the whole unsavoury story .
17 Once in her life already she had become attached to someone and had allowed herself to be swept down with him in his lonely vortex into the silent depths where nothing moves but drowned sailors coughing seaweed ; only Miriam herself knew how much it had cost her to ascend again from that fascinating , ghostly world towards light and life .
18 She knew she had better not tell him how much it had cost .
19 Melissa had pushed this small incident into the back of her mind ; now she remembered it , she realised how much it had hurt .
20 The company refused to say how much it had spent on environmental protection .
21 Those were the words of Emperor Franz Joseph on St. Wolfgang , which just goes to show how much it takes to get an Emperor really excited .
22 Please accept my sincere condolences at your family 's sad loss , I know from personal experience how much it hurts to lose one so close .
23 This chapter will consider how much it costs to support dementia sufferers at home .
24 Many firms do not know how much it costs to relocate staff .
25 How much it costs to replace him if you can not manage him and his career in an informed way ?
26 Clearly the question of how much it costs to sustain at home elderly people with dementia is a very important one , but it is one which is very difficult to answer .
27 How much it costs to train him ?
28 Have you costed out how much it costs to recruit a key employee ?
29 ‘ As for value for money , it was n't per se my main concern but reorienting it from an activity-based approach of what the cost of something was to VFM in terms of delivery to the patient — evaluating what we were doing well in the sense you or I as doctor-patient would expect , the outcomes of value to the patient , establishing how much it costs to deliver ( something we could n't do but are better at now ) and then asking if it is reasonable value for money or , more interestingly , why it is cheaper in one place than another , benchmarking it . ’
30 There is no real rule of thumb for how much it costs to convert a barn .
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