Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goaded beyond endurance , she took a wild swing that connected with his shield with such force that it nearly wrenched her arms out of their sockets . |
| 2 | She scuttled over to the far side of the room and had managed to read quite a lot of the letter before Julius came charging after her , taking the paper back from her with such force that it almost ripped in half . |
| 3 | The realisation that this illness could apply to anyone broke down the illusion that it only affects those who have dropped out of society . |
| 4 | The road ran straight ahead of us until it disappeared in the mist , except that at the man 's feet it was gone and there was a gap some fifty metres or so wide through which a brown torrent ran so high and in such furious waves that it almost lipped the broken macadam where the road had been swept away . |
| 5 | Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline . |
| 6 | Around me , as the pirates and Famlio stared at Gharr , the atmosphere grew so much charged with fury and tension that it almost crackled , like a defective energy field . |
| 7 | Ethnomethodology is an organizational study of a member 's own knowledge of his ordinary affairs , of his own organized enterprises , where this knowledge is treated … as part of the same setting that it also makes orderable ( Garfinkel 1974 : 18 ) |
| 8 | THE CITY is in grave danger of being bullied into subscribing for shares in the water industry that it neither wants nor needs . |
| 9 | Wengen 's skiing is extensive , but for piste skiers is mostly easy ; Murren is very limited , with one spectacular descent from the famous Schilthorn ; Zermatt has something for everyone and lots for experts , but to reach its full potential needs better snow than it often receives ; Saas Fee has an excellent glacier , but again needs abundant snow to provide much more than that — in particular , to satisfy better skiers . |
| 10 | Even music is so often used as a ‘ background noise ’ in shops and restaurants that it sometimes seems that we have forgotten how to listen to it . |
| 11 | It was n't until the final two weeks of term that it really hit me that I was actually going to have to go . |
| 12 | For Leavis , Cambridge English offers a way forward for the discipline as a whole by virtue of its emancipation from " linguistic grinds " and Anglo-Saxon , but only on condition that it now becomes infused by a " general discipline " addressed to the growth of " intelligence and sensibility " . |
| 13 | This doctrine of ‘ last things ’ was the first systematized eschatology in the history of religion and it profoundly influenced Judaism , Christianity , and Islam . |
| 14 | Just do n't enjoy Palace losing , but sheer football and it just shows you that ironically the two games can match each other and there were chances for Palace to wrap that game up . |
| 15 | There was no colour bar , because normal rules are applied for the selection of recruits and it just happens that black and Asian people fall the tests . |
| 16 | For example , one of the galleries might want the Picasso if it also gets the Cezanne but not the Turner ; but it would not insist on the Picasso if it got the Turner ; but would want both if it did not get the Cezanne . |
| 17 | Labour has a long list of priorities : a £3 billion pledge on pensions — presumably health comes after that ; health presumably comes after Labour 's £1 billion recovery programme and it presumably comes after Labour 's £8 billion housing pledge . |
| 18 | This is a key issue in multimedia only because full motion , full frame video has been talked up by the industry until it even has its own acronym ( FMFFV or FFFMV , depending on preferences ) . |
| 19 | He opens his mouth and it almost spills out , the bitter refusal : no . |
| 20 | However , it should be noted that Scrutton LJ 's words were said in a case involving a contract between commercial parties and it now seems that the insistence that public policy is primarily concerned with holding people to their agreements is now out of favour . |
| 21 | In addition , recruitment is a major activity in any personnel department and it frequently gives rise to administration problems of an essentially mundane nature which are , nevertheless , a major irritant as far as the personnel manager is concerned . |
| 22 | That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War . |
| 23 | This does not fit , however , with the reef limestones and it certainly does not fit with the other facies that show the same persistence . |
| 24 | It was an unmarked car and it now carried the three of them towards Pushkin . |
| 25 | Erm sometimes er I have n't mentioned much about the gender of the therapist but sometimes it can help a great deal if the therapist 's the same gender as the same person who 's undergoing therapy and it also helps if it 's er sometimes you ca n't very easily with some therapists , y'know it sometimes erm helps if it 's somebody you can trust and confide in and stuff like that and obviously , having met various psychiatrists and clinical psychologists , er quite a number of them are not people I 'd particularly like to talk about about being abused as a child . |
| 26 | Yeah , quite a high one so they have a big dam to give a good head water , a good height of water , and that water comes Drops down through quite a quite a height , and then they have a turbine sort of force it into a turbine with a turbine and it really spins that turbine th that 's joined top the alternator and makes the electricity . |
| 27 | It had not been out of the cupboard for some months and it really showed off until I treated it to a stiff drink ( surgical spirit ) and a nice massage with an oily rag . |
| 28 | The Americans led 54–41 at half-time and it always seemed they could step up a few gears when required . |
| 29 | I was at a stage where I was used to getting something like cannabis or whatever and , with none of that being around , I thought a bit of this wo n't do me any harm and it just took off from there . |
| 30 | I was at a stage where I was used to getting something like cannabis or whatever and with none a that being round I thought a bita this wo n't do me any harm and it just took off from there … . |