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 | I managed to roll clear just as it flew off into the air , never to be seen again . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Her mocking laughter sounded as clear now as it had done months earlier . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had lopped off the leaves and twigs at a joint so that it made a very crude crutch . |
| 9 | Yet it was as impossible now as it had always been , and she groaned . |
| 10 | The figure 's breathing was harsh and uneven now and it seemed incapable of further movement . |
| 11 | ‘ I was a bit nervous beforehand but it turned out to be very easy , ’ said Personal Account Manager Anita Cooper . |
| 12 | The mountainside , climbing steeply from the head of the meadow , was concave so that it formed a natural amphitheatre cupping a quarry face . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | More practical guidance , advice and support in those areas would be valuable particularly if it came from within librarianship rather than management science generally . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This was not because of the enemy fire , which was less frequent now than it had ever been , for evidently the sepoys had decided to bide their time until the end of the rains . |
| 19 | She had been right in her assumption about the photograph — she was sure now that it had been taken at one of those supper parties , and without prior warning . |
| 20 | Karnstein seemed to have been born to fit the caricatured image of a hospital matron , determined to do a patient good even if it killed him . |
| 21 | Then it ran , dodging between sandy hillocks , black-tipped tail undulating behind as it attempted to escape the constant buzzing of irate birds . |
| 22 | With dark hair cut quite short so that it revealed his classically shaped head , a deep tan finished with some light freckles , piercing blue eyes and a mouth that was generous in laughter and very straight and sober when he was absorbed in work , he had become the standard against which any other man she met was measured … and fell short . |
| 23 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 24 | Linigan 's goal later left the forlorn Chris Waddle and his Wednesday mates in tears as Wembley became a sea of red-and-white just as it had been after the same Coca-Cola Cup scoreline a month earlier . |
| 25 | Nor does the familiar bogy of the French Minister of Education , said to know exactly what every child at school is learning that minute , when he looks at his watch , seem so very alarming even if it conformed in any way with the truth . |
| 26 | Though the first state action came in 1882 with the Ancient Monuments Act , this was important chiefly because it acknowledged the interest of the state in the preservation of ancient monuments . |
| 27 | It er it 'd be handy actually if it generated an error when it did that . |
| 28 | ‘ My father says that you 're an architect , ’ she volunteered , determined to be pleasant even if it killed her in the process . |
| 29 | The more closely the dynamics behind mass unrest are examined , the clearer it becomes that mass political militancy was generated from below rather than whipped up from above , and that ‘ intelligentsia initiative was successful only when it reflected … basic popular impulse . ’ |
| 30 | That is , a question involving calculation was deemed to be practical only if it involved a real-life situation . |