Example sentences of "it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes it and examines it keenly . |
| 2 | She watched it keenly through opera glasses from the third row of the empty stalls , and I do n't know how the poor actress carried on under the circumstances . |
| 3 | Nonetheless Count Christoph Douglas , head of Sotheby 's in Germany , declared that he has ‘ complete confidence in Berlin ’ as a location and with the level and amount of bidding at the sale , some of it keenly fought and much of it this time conducted by telephone . |
| 4 | She did not actually check her watch , but the effect was there , and Edward felt it keenly . |
| 5 | To be quite frank , this cloak and dagger stuff is beneath him , and he feels it keenly . |
| 6 | Stealing a gun cover undetected , he brought it ashore and presented it dripping wet to the ship 's captain in a conference . |
| 7 | Measure the space for the final length of cladding , then cut to fit by sawing it lengthwise |
| 8 | She plucked a grass stalk from the ground at her side , then split it lengthwise with her outer talon . |
| 9 | Now you know this , do n't start applying it rigorously as a rule which will inhibit your sailing , merely let the body work it out for itself by noticing the levelness of the horizon . |
| 10 | The committee took evidence from a wide variety of sources and assessed it rigorously . |
| 11 | While the Comintern policy was nominally accepted in Britain it was only vocal extremists , backed by the Comintern , who wished to see it rigorously enforced . |
| 12 | The quotations were accurate but one sensed within Aumann 's text an underlying idea : not just that Palestine was empty of people — which it assuredly was not — but that perhaps those people who did live there somehow did not deserve to do so ; that they were too slovenly to use modern irrigation methods or to plant trees or to build brick houses . |
| 13 | But to eyes not looking through ancient spectacles , it assuredly appears as an affair of the intercourse of a living being with its physical and social environment . |
| 14 | He drank it gladly , asking no questions . |
| 15 | When that ‘ civilised ’ society realised that science creates problems as well as solving them , it gladly turned to space-gods and their companions . |
| 16 | A path into the woods appeared on her right-hand side and she stepped on to it gladly . |
| 17 | If letting him make love to her was the price for keeping him with her all night she would pay it gladly . |
| 18 | There was cake , satisfying and fruity , and he sat on the edge of the chesterfield in Isobel 's sitting-room and ate it appreciatively between gulps of strong , sweet tea from one of her best bone china teacups . |
| 19 | Silently she handed him her cup and watched him sip it appreciatively , his eyes on hers the entire time . |
| 20 | As she was about to wriggle back into the room , the faint scent of the climbing rose came to her nostrils , and she sniffed it appreciatively , then paused , remembering the legend . |
| 21 | Surprised , she sniffed at it appreciatively . |
| 22 | Ten years after the discovery of AIDS we are entering into a new era in the global pandemic , with growing concern about our ability to confront it successfully . |
| 23 | It successfully conveys something of this many faceted tale of daring behaviour . |
| 24 | I am not sorry I undertook the captaincy again — I genuinely wanted to do it successfully . |
| 25 | It was only towards the end of my time in Spain , when we were in Ciudad Rodrigo for the Festival Taurino , that we once , quite by accident , found ourselves in the 69 position and went through with it successfully . |
| 26 | What struck me , however , was how distant the preoccupations of the audience were from those which could capture a majority in modern Britain , or could govern it successfully if that majority were ever won . |
| 27 | In economic terms , many of those who still had land in the pears following 1973 were not able to farm it successfully . |
| 28 | In the years 1952–5 , it successfully defended its primacy in Lebanese affairs despite its rout on the battlefield in 1952 . |
| 29 | There are clear reasons why state power should encompass the means to conserve soil , reafforest and so on , but why do governments not do it successfully ? |
| 30 | The IPG states clearly that it is designed for advice workers , but many instances have proved that clients have used it successfully when left to browse by hard-pressed advisers — an indication of its clarity of exposition and potential as a tool for those members of the public who feel they can cope without personal assistance and someone to listen . |