Example sentences of "it [conj] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You almost never find all the symptoms of the case in a remedy picture and you will never find all the symptoms of a remedy in the disease picture of the case , so do not look for it or try to fit it all in . |
| 2 | These were , first , our freedom as responsible moral agents , for the ‘ ought ’ of the categorical imperative implies the ‘ can ’ of our ability to obey it or to refuse to obey it ; second , immortality , which brings with it the prospect of reward and punishment , and the advance towards higher and fuller good than can be attained in this life ; third , God himself as the supreme Good , the ultimate guarantor of the moral order of the universe . |
| 3 | that would be to completely undermine the effect of article eighty five , we simply would n't be able to raise our shield at all , we would have a counterclaim but at which point since we had no of what erm , for example as one of it 's principal defences , defences , erm we would say we 've made the plaintiffs case very much easier , they 've now got all our money , we 're bankrupt , we ca n't pursue our claim because we 've got no money to pursue it with in article eighty five would of been completely undermined because we would not of had a realistic opportunity to raise article eighty five as a defence and your Lordship to do that would of had to not only set aside the counterclaim as a set off , but also to set aside the entire eighty five defence to stayed it or to have set it aside |
| 4 | So what was it that had made him go , but a furtive , half-acknowledged sense that not to have done so would have been like turning one 's back on the Crucifixion , that here perhaps at last was the litmus which might determine the validity of his readopted faith ? |
| 5 | What was it that had attracted him ? |
| 6 | You 've decided you would like to make love to me after all and what better way to do it than trying to win your way into my bed with flattery ? ’ |
| 7 | The result is that one official feline organization will recognize the new mutation as an additional breed , while another official body outlaws it and refuses to allow it to enter its cat shows . |
| 8 | In a letter to his lawyers cited by foreign correspondents in Beijing on Feb. 18 , Wang commented on other " leaders and initiators of this movement " who " dared not take responsibility for it and sought to defame it " . |
| 9 | The straight people I was friendly with were quite realistic about my gayness , even intrigued by it and grew to know what I did and who I met . |
| 10 | Had well he said , Just get on with it and keep pushing it up the wall , just keep pushing it up the wall , just come back . |
| 11 | I did think about it and asked to see him again , and once again he visited me with Patrick Nairne . |
| 12 | He put his hands on her shoulders and inspected her face closely ; nodded as if he approved of it and began to unfasten her hair . |
| 13 | Before the music papers had a chance to review the debut single John Peel discovered it and began playing it , almost on a nightly basis . |
| 14 | Someone saved him from a blade he had not seen , and he killed the man who wielded it and began to fight his way back the way he had come , towards Siward , still calling orders . |
| 15 | An almost frightening moral certainty swept over it and began to soothe its pain . |
| 16 | She found a heavy staff , hefted it and began to make her way to the gate , to go out and beat Tig back to his domain . |
| 17 | the plaintiff had ‘ purchased ’ a car from a person who had no title to it and had sent it to a garage for repair . |
| 18 | A low range of hills lifted in the north , yellow , rumpled , threadbare , as if someone had been carrying a lionskin and had grown tired of it and had thrown it down . |
| 19 | This was many years ago now ab ten years ago I guess , so I went and saw and of course , erm Mr was dead and his son was running it and had sold his shares . |
| 20 | His dissertation was nearly finished but for the last six months he had almost stopped work on it and had devoted himself entirely to his passion , a crusade against nuclear power . |
| 21 | Apart from believing in it and wanting to do it ? |
| 22 | They 'll accept it and put send it through on the nod if we can get his support . |
| 23 | The referrals you , you missed the , the beginning out of the f referrals and just went straight into it and said have you got anybody I could contact |
| 24 | He was very good at it and seemed to enjoy himself . |
| 25 | Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us . |
| 26 | Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us . |
| 27 | He gave up trying to understand it and vowed to harden himself more . |
| 28 | His father , with a working man 's regard for hired finery , picked it up , smoothed it and stood draping it over his arm like an outfitter 's assistant . |
| 29 | Angela did see it and did read it . |
| 30 | She almost dropped the line in disgust , but managed to hold it and started to swing it back and forth like a skipping rope in wider and wider slow arcs . |