Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was too big a puzzle and she let it go although it gnawed away at the back of her mind . |
| 2 | The laibon wants it understood that it has taken him some time to trace the trouble back to this incident . |
| 3 | The reader can examine the program and prevent it running if it looks suspicious . |
| 4 | " Let it snow till it reaches the chimney-pots , " he says to himself . |
| 5 | Let it sit if it wanted to . |
| 6 | When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices . |
| 7 | because he could n't get to there you see so I said well it 'll have to go now , well we 've got it shifted and it 's thrown away and , and that 's the end of that , so I says now when she does decide to come and she wants to be in here , well I said she 'll just have to carry a mattress in , and that 'll be alright just for her to sleep on |
| 8 | The key to 91 appears to fit the lock to the internal doors here , but 1 ( wasted ) round of turning it shows that it does n't unlock them . |
| 9 | no that 's right , yeah , I mean , I , I 've said it , I do n't care , but er I 've said in the past that er , I think some of the reason me and Ann split up was , I mean she always used to say I never treated her right and all things like that , I did you know , and I do care for her , but a lot of the things was I never showed it because erm if anything bothered me I never know it showed and it did n't bloody bother me because I 'd resolved myself after Julie that I 'd never let anything bother me again |
| 10 | You draw it to show that it has a mirror image so what you find in practice is that it and it 's mirror image are not superimposable . |
| 11 | . And this is why I choose the cutters because it was mechanically and er I I was quite with it , I was able to sort of get it going if it stopped , one road or another . |
| 12 | As a matter of fact I heard it stop when it reached the house . ’ |
| 13 | As he drew near they heard the sickening crack of the rod striking flesh ; once , twice they heard it fall but it brought no anguished shout of pain in response . |
| 14 | Though the three major Allies — the United States , the Soviet Union , and Great Britain — were willing to concede this parity on occasion , the very act of conceding it demonstrated that it did not in reality exist . |
| 15 | I just keep it spinning until it gets to a point where it 's not making more power and then shift gears . |
| 16 | I could swear I saw it sizzle as it ate through the varnish . |
| 17 | But if I can leave it running and it runs out it will suit me down to the ground . |
| 18 | He coughed and spat some phlegm into the fire , hearing it sizzle as it hit the coals . |
| 19 | All in all , the people 's party may not have played quite the ace it thought it had when it chose Smith as its leader . |
| 20 | I therefore introduced the refinement of bending the infant whisker , by troubling the waters around the moment of its birth , and then simply allowing it to thicken until it broke , this was a little less clumsy but still highly unsatisfactory . |
| 21 | Increasing distance made it shrink as it rose , until at an unimaginable height it was not larger to her eye than a small bird . |
| 22 | Well it 's like erm an it 's like it make it fancy and it goes |
| 23 | What did it matter if it stopped her from sleeping ? |
| 24 | Why did it occur when it did ? |
| 25 | ‘ Did it say if it got everything sorted out ? |
| 26 | She supposed wearily that she should be hoping this last thing would still happen , should be making it happen if it did n't happen on its own , but she knew that however hopeless this love for him was , it was the most precious and valuable thing she had ever experienced . |
| 27 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 28 | I think it fails but it makes a point . |
| 29 | And if any splodges onto fabric , just leave it to dry and it turns to dust — then you can rub it off in a second . |
| 30 | He hung his heavy axe and rubber-handled flashlight on nails hammered into the edge of a high shelf , then shrugged his jacket from his shoulders and left it to lie where it fell . |