Example sentences of "[coord] [adj -er] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have a piece of pottery that you suspect is older or younger than it purports to be , you can have it tested by thermoluminescence for £80 . |
| 2 | It would droop lower and lower until it rested on her knees , then she would clasp her knees with both hands and rock herself , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , moaning , her face hidden in her skid . |
| 3 | from a standing position the bathroom was even colder and smellier than it had looked before . |
| 4 | Every surface really does look fresher and brighter because it has been thoroughly cleaned . |
| 5 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 6 | The floor was even harder and colder that it had been before . |
| 7 | The room seemed darker now , and smaller than it had . |
| 8 | I also used to compare the buzzard to a kite , being allowed to gain height gradually and seeming to grow smaller and smaller until it went out of control and soared off into the distance with the wind . |
| 9 | Consequently , as the stakes become bigger and bigger in the playing of the game , the scruples will become smaller and smaller when it comes to the back-alley work of player recruitment . |
| 10 | It 's lighter and funnier than it sounds , but this was no gentle role . |
| 11 | I think that you have made the magazine more interesting , more satirical and funnier than it has been this century . |
| 12 | He dialled Jo 's number in Rome , and grew lonelier and sadder as it rang on and on , unanswered . |
| 13 | She kept her eyes steadily on the glass , and now the power was concentrating itself in one small part of each eye and growing stronger and stronger and it felt as though millions of tiny little invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out of her eyes towards the glass she was staring at . |
| 14 | But still the fearsome swooshing whooshing whiffling snorting noise grew louder and louder as it came closer and closer . |
| 15 | A bat approaching a moth will sound louder and louder as it comes close , and the moth is sensitive to loudness . |
| 16 | In 1561 he received a royal dispensation to be absent from his Durham prebend to finalize a map of England ‘ both fairer and more perfect and truer than it hath been hitherto ’ . |
| 17 | The drought had not yet taken a stranglehold , although the landscape looked parched and drier than it had for years . |
| 18 | You can help this natural process by using friction to remove the top layer of dead cells , making the skin look clearer and fresher because it enables the surface to reflect the light . |