Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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31 But it was also apparent that by taking control of the food supply the government had a powerful weapon against the movement — one that it used without hesitation .
32 And sort of , dead down to earth and everything and it showed you a clip out of National Velvet when she was twelve years old you know erm that with the horse in it and that ?
33 Yeah , but , you 're mad getting worried to much , you know we had our green house all smashed up and everything and it 's been upsetting ,
34 ‘ But it shows she was trying everything and it did put an end to the sightings at that time . ’
35 If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy .
36 cos he was thrown against the wall and hit a mole on his head or something and it caused a bruise and it has actually damaged his brain .
37 looked like a great big piano , you know , with like the buttons and he were doing this and they 've got every country within range on the wa on whatever it was , wall or a gantry , and if that was n't too , too good he , he were doing something and it come up .
38 If you expect something and it surpasses your expectation , then you are thrilled .
39 It was as if she had said something and it had caused a click in his mind that brought down the shutters to keep her out .
40 yeah I think that 's probably the best thing and gradually the past you 've missed might start fitting into place as it were you know if you , if you keep up with the present , I think that 's probably the best thing so er and , you know , er I know it 's no comfort but these things take time , you know it takes time to get socialized into something and it takes time to get used to a way of working .
41 It was a study in how not to do something and it cost Chirac dear .
42 Start doing something and it looks as if you have got worries . ’
43 but if you think about it , there is the hard ones can have a lot better ca n't they , I mean the only thing that 'll actually harm them is that if you get poked in the eye or something and it shatters the lens cos they are actually
44 How many times have you supposed to have taken something back or have it repaired or something and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there and it 's collected du , I 've got things round the house that I 've been working on and that I 've got ta , I 've got ta and it 's collected dust .
45 It 's a great feeling when you try something and it works out as it did in Cardiff back in 1982 when we beat Wales 34–18 and ended their 14-year record of home invincibility .
46 If many of you are doing something well , but you need to be brought together , our role is to co-ordinate you , and if you 're not doing something and it needs doing , then our role is to initiate it .
47 Jaguar insiders say the company bosses — all 14 of them — are so enthusiastic about the car that every one of them has claimed he 'd spend his own money to buy one if it goes into production .
48 The defendants were in breach of their statutory duty in failing to provide safety belts but advanced evidence to show that the plaintiff would not have worn one if it had been provided .
49 The guard is a part of the machine , so go back and claim a new one if it breaks while still under warranty . ’
50 Erm some people get hooked on geometry , and they , I 'm gon na get this one if it kills me .
51 I 'm actually going to go in for it in the Telegraph 's competition , so I may as well use the same team for our one if it gets going .
52 It is n't invariable practice amongst conveyancers even to keep a third copy of a simple transfer for themselves ( but always keep one if it contains restrictions , or the grant or reservation of rights , etc , or if you will require one for your mortgagee 's solicitors ; normally one prepares top and carbon , both of which are sent to the seller 's conveyancers with a suggestion that the top copy , too , should be retained and used as the engrossment if its terms are approved .
53 But it will prove to be a necessary and worthwhile one if it leads us in the direction of a less doctrinaire and therefore more properly educational form of antiracism .
54 Either save it and get something top-of-the-range or stay with the cheap one if it works .
55 So that 's one if it comes up again
56 The dividing line here is a tenuous one if it exists at all .
57 The role of foremen or front-line supervisors in these evaluations is a central one and it developed during the 1950s as an integral part of efforts to promote QC activities .
58 but erm , he 's got a false one and it sounds dreadful does n't it ?
59 It 's too complicated to explain er why this happens , but such simulations have been done , notably about Parker Baker and Smith who did the famous one and it does suggest that if you start off , even if you start of with similar size , that is sex cells , they will be driven by a competition for reproductive success to the extremes and you 'll end up with two extreme types , a large type proto-ovum and a tiny type , a proto- sperm .
60 The latter is obviously the interesting one and it uses a very different method to competitive programs .
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