Example sentences of "it [conj] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as a Christian might reject Buddhism without ever studying it or getting to understand the meaning behind the words . |
| 2 | Of the quarter bequeathed property , the majority has sold it or expected to do so . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is also undoubtedly useful for teachers to be able to refer to features of pupils ' work when they are correcting it or trying to help pupils in some way . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You know , I mean she either gets on with it or gets rid of them do n't she ? |
| 7 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 8 | Total duration of oral contraceptive use was unimportant , but a very low rate of endometriosis was found among women currently or recently taking the pill compared with women who had never taken it or had stopped for over 12 months . |
| 9 | They were also content to leave the whole affair as far as they knew it , understood it or had allocated the blame for it . |
| 10 | This element of anticipation of death is therefore one that affects us all if the circumstances warrant it or seem to do so . |
| 11 | Those with experience of Local Authority procedure , who perhaps enjoy it or enjoy showing off their knowledge of it , then started calling ‘ points of order ’ or complaining about issues not being on the agenda , of being taken out of sequence . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | So it was transparent , with these little black circles in it that seemed to jump backwards and forwards at you . |
| 14 | It seems that on reflection it was n't so much what Theo had said but how he had said it that had generated such despair and fury in him . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | What exactly was it that had taken place ? |
| 17 | What was it that had attracted him ? |
| 18 | At least to that branch of it that had rooted at Edendale in Southland , NZ , where it was now summer . |
| 19 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 20 | So what exactly is it that has made Claudia Schiffer the world 's highest paid model ? |
| 21 | ‘ Er , I 'm sorry , but who is it that has died ? |
| 22 | When the history of that unhappy place is considered it may well be asked , ‘ What kind of a ‘ god ’ is it that has failed so abysmally to make good the promise ? ’ . |
| 23 | Now what is it that have got two of ? |
| 24 | I I just did n't understand it that 's come for the advice for you see . |
| 25 | Erm and what is it that 's come into his mind in a great rush in this part of the poem |
| 26 | Well that Actually that 's on my disk cos we did have two the the disk partitioned and it 's my half of it that 's got a meg and a half left . |
| 27 | 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 ? ’ |
| 28 | Any such investigations as the respondent seeks could easily lead to such a conflict , and I would only support it if compelled to do so by clear authority . |
| 29 | Very slowly and deliberately Isambard slipped his feet clear of the stirrups and leaned forward as if to swing himself out of the saddle , but in the act he jabbed home hard into the beast 's side with his right spur , and drove him not forward , but flinching sidelong into the bushes in a wild leap ; and leaning both hands on the pommel of his saddle he vaulted out of it and dropped crashing into the bushes almost on top of Owen . |
| 30 | He should hold the down wind wing-tip a little above the horizontal and be prepared to run with it , not just balance it and let go . |