Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb -s] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 2 | Thirdly , the Convention may be silent both as to the substance of a particular issue and as to the law by which it is to be determined , in which case it is a question of construction whether the Convention covers the point or merely leaves it to be dealt with under the law applicable under the conflicts rules of the forum . |
| 3 | This jockeying for the truth may be fine for doctors engaged in expensive research , but where exactly does it leave the rest of us , constantly struggling to keep up with the latest medical thinking and changing our diets accordingly . |
| 4 | Oh yes , if they want to come it does n't matter if it 's convenient to you or not does it ! |
| 5 | vivid description of him or not does it ? |
| 6 | Whereas if the teacher just does n't mark it , just gives a comment , or just ticks it , I tend to get lazy . |
| 7 | If you get a correlation between two variables it may be because one causes the other , or directly influences it , or it may be that it 's just cha it 's just a chance fluctuation and the two have occurred together , or it may be a combination of the two . |
| 8 | I know I live on a fierce and magical planet , which sheds or surrenders rain or even flings it off in whipstroke after whipstroke , which fires out bolts of electric gold into the firmament at 186,000 miles per second , which with a single shrug of its tectonic plates can erect a city in half an hour . |
| 9 | It is true that in some cases it happens that the recipient does not find the punishment painful , or even welcomes it — for example , some offenders might find prison a refuge against the intolerable pressures of the outside world . |
| 10 | This does not mean that the applicant can not let the house , but if she sells it , or simply uses it as a second home , she may have to pay back the whole or part of the grant with interest . |
| 11 | It treats it as a specific object of investigation , or else ignores it . |
| 12 | Where he finds beauty and pleasure in male animals , he asserts their masculinity very vehemently , or else denies it . |
| 13 | A person ‘ publishes ’ an article when he sells it , or otherwise distributes it by giving it away , letting it on hire or lending it . |
| 14 | Erm you might think that all graphs always look like that , or bits of graphs are always like that , or where does it all tie in ? |
| 15 | If the owner does not resist the taking of his property , or actually hands it over , because of , for example , threats of violence , in one sense it could be said that there is ‘ consent : ’ yet the offence of robbery , as defined in section 8(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , involves , as one of its elements , theft . |
| 16 | Er and I think that somewhat sums it up . |
| 17 | There 's a sign at the top of the road that 's been there for years , ever since they opened the new road , and it says ‘ Strome Ferry — no ferry ’ , and that just says it all . |
| 18 | I think that just makes it worse . |
| 19 | Soon as she sees something going wrong , she comes bowling round spreading sweetness and light , and that just makes it worse . ’ |
| 20 | I think that just puts it into bloody perspective |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not me that fucking owes it . ’ |
| 22 | Anya produces a rusty mortice-key , struggles with a lock and gives the door a kick that finally opens it . |
| 23 | This is then forgotten or repressed when it seems to have vanished altogether and there 's a third period , what Freud calls the return of the repressed when the initial trauma comes back in the form of symptoms and er ideally in the form of an analysis that finally brings it to the surface of consciousness and dissolves it , and this is a typical pattern . |
| 24 | The depth of the recession facing Germany means that the boom must fall soon , and then about the only way for Siemens to save the company will be to make a major acquisition that finally puts it onto the world stage . |
| 25 | Crack is derived from cocaine by ‘ free-basing ’ it , which means the cocaine is dissolved in water and then heated with baking powder ( or something similar ) until the cocaine base is separated from salt that usually accompanies it . |
| 26 | Not just on my own he just said that , it was a bit bad cos I , I said to him , you know , who 's going and he listed like er reeled off , I ca n't remember , reeled off a load of blokes yes last night and I said are there any girls going and he said well I 'll see if I can get Laura and Giles to come and I said yeah I feel much better about that , you know , whatever and then today he said erm look ca n't go and was a real , I du n no he 's got something and he 's usually like the real medium and he , you know , if there 's e if there 's ever like a pregnant pause then he 's the one that like keeps it all going |
| 27 | Just as I 'm wondering if I have time to nip across to silence it , there 's a burst of shouting that nearly jolts it off the table . |
| 28 | The kidnap has apparently been perpetrated by a cell of international terrorists , and that automatically makes it a matter for state security . |
| 29 | So that probably makes it but I say without having me own book to check it I ca n't |
| 30 | It is even sophisticated enough to perform spot and process colour separations to a PostScript printer — a feature that also separates it from the majority of budget drawing packages . |