Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1960 the Rat Pack — Sinatra , Lawford , Martin , Davis and Bishop — came together to make Ocean 's Eleven , a caper that became a classic only because it featured for the first time the nucleus of the clan . |
| 2 | The tapered frame of the original pattern was straightened and made broader so that it became rectangular in design . |
| 3 | The tapered frame of the original pattern was straightened and made broader so that it became rectangular in design . |
| 4 | Racal proved this conclusively when it announced last spring that it was planning to sell off part of the Vodafone mobile telecoms operation . |
| 5 | I managed to roll clear just as it flew off into the air , never to be seen again . |
| 6 | There was no doubt in her mind that he was doing this deliberately and it drove her to forcefulness . |
| 7 | And she 'll forgive him just this once and it had better not happen again . |
| 8 | And that looked pretty funny like and it fell down a couple of days ago and maybe a pretty while afore that I du n no . |
| 9 | Her mocking laughter sounded as clear now as it had done months earlier . |
| 10 | Mr Jackson said : ‘ I have never heard of anything like this before but it did not really spoil our day . |
| 11 | Sam had heard all this before and it seemed mightily irrelevant to the business in hand . |
| 12 | He had rendered her almost mindless there and it had all been a cheap trick , not even part of his wish to get her to accept her father . |
| 13 | In their four meetings she had never questioned him about his job , had seldom mentioned the power station except , as on this afternoon , to complain half seriously that it spoilt the view . |
| 14 | No. 28 was noticeable only because it did not have net curtains , just long , dark purple ones which were almost drawn across the front room window . |
| 15 | Always shrimps , bread and butter , a bowl of mustard and cress and a rich , light , golden sponge-cake baked that morning in the oven with the Sunday joint so that it had a faint savour of burnt meat fat . |
| 16 | He had lopped off the leaves and twigs at a joint so that it made a very crude crutch . |
| 17 | Well , half fiveish normally , cos because you had to make your own round up , mark the papers and then , say , six o'clock and it lasted possibly three hours , you just in time for you to get to school for probably ten past nine . |
| 18 | Yet it was as impossible now as it had always been , and she groaned . |
| 19 | The figure 's breathing was harsh and uneven now and it seemed incapable of further movement . |
| 20 | On the other hand , neither did the faithful military figure so much here as it did in the political activities of the Smolensk party organization . |
| 21 | ‘ I was a bit nervous beforehand but it turned out to be very easy , ’ said Personal Account Manager Anita Cooper . |
| 22 | What was that like when it started ? |
| 23 | The mountainside , climbing steeply from the head of the meadow , was concave so that it formed a natural amphitheatre cupping a quarry face . |
| 24 | You 'd never think it but McQuaid , like many of the others , was more or less illiterate though he could add and subtract quick enough when it concerned his pocket . |
| 25 | But I did n't like working at Johnny Walkers so I think it was quite a good thing at the time , although I did n't really like it I 'm glad now that it happened cos I 'd probably still be working in there . |
| 26 | Following the election result , it seems almost inevitable that Labour will adopt a commitment to some form of proportional representation ( writes Backchat 's ‘ things that seem almost inevitable following the election result ’ correspondent ) , although , ironically , it seems considerably less inevitable now than it did a few weeks ago . |
| 27 | More practical guidance , advice and support in those areas would be valuable particularly if it came from within librarianship rather than management science generally . |
| 28 | The pure flame of radical Christianity , we might say with the example of the Titfords before us , would be lucky indeed if it burned brightly for as many as three generations . |
| 29 | It was hotter upstairs than it had been in the garden , but she was too lazy to move . |
| 30 | It feels much better already than it did yesterday . ’ |