Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | The long day passed slowly and it grew very hot . |
2 | a lovely cottage , thatched roof cottage they lived in and it had an apple tree in the front , and a pear tree down the back , and all fruit trees . |
3 | In the stunned silence George Felse got up , without speaking , and crossed the room to where Gus 's jacket hung on the back of a chair , turned towards the replenished fire , and steamed gently as it dried . |
4 | After his return to the ward Mr Reynolds ' temperature rose slowly until it reached 37 C. On the first post-operative morning his temperature was above normal limits ( 37.8 C ) . |
5 | The insertion of an adequate Human factors approach into a comprehensive design process is not easy , partly for the reason mentioned already that it has not habitually been regarded as necessary and partly because it cuts across all other decision-making . |
6 | The car engine roared again and the red car moved off but it did n't go far . |
7 | I started to like it more when we loosened up and it got less serious . |
8 | The system was the last shadow of the original shield in space , pursued partly because it contained exciting high technology , partly because it might possibly offer some worthwhile advantages , and partly because it could be used to show that Mr Bush had not turned his back on Mr Reagan 's dream . |
9 | The campaign petered out when it became obvious that the Government was not going to budge . |
10 | The track wound past one last stand of trees , then petered out as it reached a wide , open space at the top of the hill . |
11 | When England batted , Gooch was given out caught behind and it seemed to dispirit his team-mates ; without their hero of the previous game they looked lost , and folded for 114 all out . |
12 | Okay in Italy on the marble it does work , but on the slate it you know it it has n't worked and I think various quarries have tried it and found out that it does n't work , and yet he assumed that he knew better and you know , little little things like that , you know he just seemed unwilling to learn or lis heed advice . |
13 | He 'd always assumed that this was a piece of official terminology until one day he 'd asked what it meant , and found out that it stood for Another Fucking Drunk . |
14 | We certainly found out when it happened . |
15 | Last week AWSD let out that it had clasped hands with IBM 's once-proud flagship , its now-sullied mainframe operation Enterprise Systems , in setting up a co-funded unit to develop scalable mainframe-class multiprocessor RS/6000 RISC-based machines such as the SP1 Power Parallel system showed off last Tuesday . |
16 | It stopped abruptly when it saw Rosie , an uncertainty shadowing its haunted eyes . |
17 | I believe the denial of the PSI report and the furore it caused occurred precisely because it managed to get beneath the surface of police culture to explore the deep structures of belief and to comment adversely about their influence on police activities . |
18 | The shuttle trembled violently as it accelerated along the runway . |
19 | in technology we use a tracking sheet which is an A four sheet doubled over and it 's got a er it the date beginning of the week and then it 's , divide into the the lessons , there 's just three boxes |
20 | Well they were nine till seven , really six , but mostly seven o'clock before you got away and it involved wiring er coal cutting machines . |
21 | It was at this point I think Batty came on and it made a f- of a difference . |
22 | And th that that night the travel picture came on and it said Hanover . |
23 | But the Escort did n't stop , it came on until it blocked the road completely and before I could react , my door had been pulled open and a warrant card thrust in my face . |
24 | ‘ We came together because it looked as if he was going to try to take my line to the corner . |
25 | So it came in and it went round |
26 | Well keep the old bolognaise stirred so that it heats up all round . |
27 | We told the truth , the country deserved better than it got , and Labour would keep striving to create a country better in spirit and soul , he said , appealing for the party to retain in defeat the unity and vitality it showed in the campaign . |
28 | The devaluation of the dollar in 1971 and the oil crisis which came soon after it ushered in high unemployment and economic stagnation [ Beckerman , 1979 ; Blackaby , 1979 ] . |
29 | The jump in share prices was comparable to yesterday 's but the euphoria quickly ebbed away as it dawned on investors that — in terms of the immediate prospects — not much had changed and what had changed was not entirely for the better . |
30 | About four hours came home when it rained and then it stayed dry |