Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rather depends what journeys they are doing . |
| 2 | I remember watching the television report showing him standing over a map in the local Party headquarters , sweeping his hand across it presumably indicating which areas were to disappear from the face of the earth . |
| 3 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 4 | It only revealed what a warm , decent nature you have . ’ |
| 5 | This has its limitations as it only records what happens in one part of the room and there is no possibility of changing the angle or going in closer to one group . |
| 6 | However , there is no general requirement to disclose information about a property , it only states what is said must be true . |
| 7 | It only describes what happens around us — which is frankly a lot less impressive . |
| 8 | It only describes what happens to the system before it reaches its final state , which in our example was 50°C . |
| 9 | She sensed his suspicion , and it only highlighted what she 'd known . |
| 10 | Nowadays , bacon is cured by injecting fresh pork with brine , or soaking it in bring which contains permitted nitrite and nitrate preservatives . |
| 11 | Not only did the BBC believe that it alone knew what was good for the audience , its pretence of impartiality was bogus and it absorbed and suffocated with banalities all differences of opinion : |
| 12 | When it sings and blossoms in the spring it is not happy ; it merely does what its genes tell it to do . |
| 13 | The war underlined the Unionist belief in the patriotism of the British people and their belief in the failings of the Liberals , but for themselves it merely confirmed what they knew already . |
| 14 | It merely declared what people ought to have done . |
| 15 | It just depends what you want does n't it ? |
| 16 | Erm , yeah just let me make sure I can get a baby sitter , it just depends what mum and dad are up to , I know they should have been out on Friday night |
| 17 | well you do n't know it just depends what they offer ya |
| 18 | It just show what happens when you let amateurs dabble in the trade . |
| 19 | But I suppose he might want it just to see what he 's missed . |
| 20 | And these are the prices quoted for erm no , it does n't say from no nope it just says what the prices would be . |
| 21 | It just shows what love can do . |
| 22 | It just shows what you can do with statistics ! |
| 23 | Michael Parkinson , who presented the programme and added some credence to it by his presence , said afterwards : ‘ It just shows what a capacity television has for delusion . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't tell it not to do what a nome tells it to do . |
| 25 | So a dramatic story like the one told about the Carib is clearly not adequate : it over explains what is really a rather small difference . |
| 26 | But both sides knew it finally confirmed what they already knew . |
| 27 | Five months later the Minister of Information was asked in Parliament , during the debate on the Newspaper Ordnance ( Amendment ) Bill , why this new Bill was necessary if the Government had been able to close down Ulimwengu was it somehow to legalize what had been done already ? |
| 28 | But it exactly describes what you need to achieve : something that the reader , unless lucky enough to make that sideways jump of the mind , will not be able to see . |
| 29 | It hardly mattered what her own husband did or did not do when his wife languished in bed , an invalid . |
| 30 | It hardly mattered what . |