Example sentences of "it [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've tried it sometimes , never long enough to know whether I did it successfully or not , but I found there is absolutely no way of telling because even if it changes in a way one can predict , what one can predict is the way oneself changes or the world changes at the same time . |
| 2 | Presumably one reason why people doing something is they did n't do it enough the first time , or they did n't do it properly , or they did n't do it successfully and therefore they 've got ta keep doing it . |
| 3 | Dreaming Lee took to this camera immediately and held it delicately and lifted the front-flap and looked through it in order to focus on something and take a picture of it . |
| 4 | Institutional care is one part of a complex range of provision ; while it is right to reduce reliance upon it because of its toxic effects ( which are determined by the quality of care provided and not size alone : Huxley , 1991b ) it must be wrong to remove it altogether or reduce its scale or critical mass so that it ceases to be able to perform those functions which other services can not . |
| 5 | One Tory back-bencher dismissed the VAT proposal as ‘ mental ’ while others predicted that the Government would eventually be forced to scrap it altogether or at least reduce the planned amount . |
| 6 | For active hunting , a heavy shell must be something of a handicap and some carnivorous molluscs have taken to a faster if riskier life by doing without it altogether and reverting to the life-style of their flatworm-like ancestors . |
| 7 | But even then , they can not avoid it altogether and after a while , their digestions can no longer tolerate it . |
| 8 | And then they used to go with their slate and and they knew it altogether and then the counter turns and turns like that . |
| 9 | This could either involve removing it altogether and blocking up the space with bricks and mortar , or simply locking it and putting furniture against it on both sides . |
| 10 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
| 11 | The record needs to be put straight on certain issues , and women animators are in a position to do it powerfully and poignantly . |
| 12 | The trick is to do it little and often — notice what they do in the fast food chains , ’ Davies says . |
| 13 | The trustee must examine every proof of debt and admit it wholly or in part for dividend . |
| 14 | In Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Harper 's Garage ( Stourport ) Ltd [ 1968 ] AC 269 Lord Reid said : Whenever a man agrees to do something over a period he thereby puts it wholly or partly out of his power to " exercise any trade or business he pleases " during that period . |
| 15 | You turned it on but nothing is happening — blank screen , no whirring noise , no beeps , no flashing lights . |
| 16 | I mean , that 's really funny , is n't it — we did n't have anything to play it on but we still thought it was great . |
| 17 | Oh I I mean I have n't been I had it on but I put it off because it was |
| 18 | and I said well I want it on but he said you 'll have to go for this . |
| 19 | You know I thought once or twice about putting it on but mm go enough |
| 20 | I 've been able to turn it on but it ai n't been |
| 21 | It did n't matter to her whether he kept it on or not , though she did not particularly like to see how his stump got so chafed and swollen . |
| 22 | For example , does watching the television start when we turn it on or when we sit down and face it ? |
| 23 | There was never any ‘ is it on or is it off ? ’ |
| 24 | Are you prepared to take it on or what ? |
| 25 | You can choose the day of the month you want this to happen to suit your budgeting — we suggest you make it on or around pay day . |
| 26 | So are we going to teach them it on or ? |
| 27 | We generate it at will , turn it on or off by flicking a switch . |
| 28 | Section 4 provides : ( 1 ) A person applies a trade description to goods if he ( a ) affixes or annexes it to or in any manner marks it on or incorporates it with ( i ) the goods themselves or ( ii ) anything in , on or with which the goods are supplied ; or ( b ) places the goods in , on or with anything which the trade description has been affixed or annexed to , marked on or incorporated with , or places any such thing with the goods ; or ( c ) uses the trade description in any manner likely to be taken as referring to the goods . |
| 29 | I shuffled into the room got out of the doorway and the light was turned on , I ca n't remember with whether I turned it on or whether P C turned it on . |
| 30 | So they 're just after a kind of random sample of Aston lecturers and as as the official random sample keep forgetting to put the er put the tape in the machine , or turn it on or whatever , it 's handed on to me so I 'm now wired up to an extraordinary degree . |