Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It got in it , but he has n't got any leg . |
| 2 | These and many other such instances , however , are mainly cases where , although the constitution forbade the enactment of the law in question by that legislature or process , it provided for it to be enacted in some other way , e.g. by constitutional amendment . |
| 3 | In 1989 Brazil repaid nearly $800 million more to the World Bank than it received from it . |
| 4 | Although the petitioners realised that it was government policies which were responsible for the impoverishment of the masses , the movement did not oppose government , it appealed to it for improvements . |
| 5 | On the contrary , it added to it , and not just in terms of the quality and character of the landscape , but also from the point of view of the wildlife . |
| 6 | that , it came with it |
| 7 | If it came to it ? |
| 8 | Would you lie low , if it came to it ? ’ |
| 9 | Henry could not imagine , when it came to it , the beginning , middle or end of a conversation in which Donald would tell him how to get hold of an untraceable poison . |
| 10 | But when it came to it , national pride won out , and the UK forgot all about international agreements . |
| 11 | ‘ Here you have the sea so I think we have ways and means of — if it came to it — of stopping them from entering the harbour landing . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyway , when it came to it , I did n't exactly see you rushing up ready to shake him by the finger , ’ he said . |
| 13 | When it came to it , the unions were badly handled and the strategy badly thought out . |
| 14 | ‘ Not when it came to it , ’ Albert said . |
| 15 | When it came to it he could n't kill the happiness he saw in her . |
| 16 | When it came to it , the fish sold as lanisticola looked , to the discerning eye , quite different — the face was yellow rather than blue , the tail was heavily banded rather than streaked along the rays , and — to my mind the most important point — the upper head profile was quite different : that of the ‘ real ’ livingstonii being very like Ps. zebra , ie a humped forehead above a concave snout , while ‘ lanisticola ’ — as convex from upper lip to top of head , rather like Ps. tropheops . |
| 17 | I meant to be open with him but when it came to it I beat about the bush . |
| 18 | She had meant to confide that she , too , was a seduced woman ; yet when it came to it she could n't find the correct words . |
| 19 | If it came to it , she would sell up and move away , taking Ben with her . |
| 20 | Enough light would spill inwards from the porch as the door closed slowly on its damper , enough at least for him to get to his own door and line up the key ; but when it came to it he hurried too much and was trying to shake out the Yale when the front door put him in darkness . |
| 21 | Perhaps he would be dry and cold when it came to it . |
| 22 | I was dreading the scene we 'd have at my Promise Ceremony , but when it came to it , she was actually on her best behaviour . |
| 23 | British Legion do : they 'd hired a Dixie Band but when it came to it would want Country and Western : six in the band and a twelve pound fee . |
| 24 | We were going to once but when it came to it you did n't have the money for the licence . |
| 25 | ‘ When it came to it , you all trusted Masklin and Gurder and the Truck . |
| 26 | Case White , as the invasion was codenamed , was aborted by a signal issued at about 7.30 p.m. on August 25 , because Mussolini and Ciano , when it came to it , summoned up the courage to tell Hitler the truth at last . |
| 27 | Not when it came to it . |
| 28 | But when it came to it , when she had to make the decision about leaving home for good , throwing herself into the wide world and trying her luck , she felt unhappy . |
| 29 | If it came to it you could keep them at the Chestnuts over the road . |
| 30 | If the house was above the road , it came from it , and cross 'd the way to run to another ; if the house was below us , it cross 'd us from some other distant house above it , and at every considerable house was a manufactory or work-house , and as they could not do their business without water , the little streams were so parted and guided by gutters and pipes , and by turning and dividing the streams , that none of those houses were without a river , if I may call it so , running into and through their work-houses . |