Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It rather sounds that way to me . ’ |
| 2 | So is it badly smashed this car or is it just the bumper ? |
| 3 | But it rarely happens that way . |
| 4 | The feel was ‘ Get to Manchester and get signed ’ although it rarely worked that way . |
| 5 | And to women it rarely gave any opportunity at all . |
| 6 | That said , however , the decisive reason why we now think it right to determine this application on its substantive merits is that we have all three of us arrived at a very clear conclusion upon the case and , moreover , a conclusion reached with particular regard to the very special facts of the case . |
| 7 | The acquirer should not agree to a clause which states that if by completion it is aware of a breach of warranty and it still elects to proceed to completion it thereby waives any claim for damages . |
| 8 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 9 | Violence of any sort solves nothing — it only breeds more violence . |
| 10 | It only brings more destruction . |
| 11 | It only needs that heater on do n't it ? |
| 12 | It 's hell here really let's face it so make all speed to the Moynihans at Toulon . |
| 13 | And occasionally , as now , it so happened that duty and pleasure would fall together in a sweet coincidence ; and from Parson 's Pleasure , after dutifully forbidding Lewis to linger more than a couple of hours or so , Morse himself departed . |
| 14 | Whether it was the Vietminh , the Binh Xuyen , or , most likely , Trotskyists , who were responsible , it obviously shattered any confidence that the restoration of French power could be achieved without such savage resistance . |
| 15 | It suddenly appears that pragmatism , so far from fitting our legal practices worse than conventionalism does , fits them better . |
| 16 | Well I just wondered if turning it down made any difference . |
| 17 | It merely seemed that way yesterday . |
| 18 | It dries right quick , it just takes that chill off |
| 19 | week or so , it just got that bit |
| 20 | Now that 's probably not really true — it just seems that way to him ! |
| 21 | Not that they did n't work ; it just seems that teaching machines have no charisma or charm . |
| 22 | It just makes more sense . |
| 23 | oh it just started this week , it 's not swollen |
| 24 | Well , it still does n't give me any money , but it just stops more money going out of my account . |
| 25 | Oh it just happened that way . |
| 26 | it just happened that way you know the twentieth of November and there 's the nineteenth of February |
| 27 | Given the success in getting the Israelis and Palestinians round the table , would it not make more sense for the Government to right that wrong and ensure that , during our presidency from July onwards , we talk directly to the PLO ? |
| 28 | Would it not make more sense to have a moratorium on pit closures in the interests of jobs , the balance of payments and European energy conservation ? |
| 29 | It was now 6.22am , and their ETA at Koepang was 7.15am , so Wood decided that altering course any further was not worthwhile , as they were near enough to Timor for it not to make much difference . |
| 30 | If nature has discovered the ‘ best way ’ of producing a sequence of changes that will result in an adult member of Homo sapiens , might it not recapitulate this sequence in the womb ? |