Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After he recovered , he took great care of his health , finding every ray of sunshine to sit in and when it rained , still resolutely taking the air , under the porch . |
| 2 | they say that ad , it pays to advertise I mean , to me advertising has never done anything for me well I do n't think it has anyway but if it pays to advertise and look at the number of people that read the Express |
| 3 | IT does n't take a professional fashion pundit to work out that when it comes to glamour , Liverpool girls are a force to be reckoned with . |
| 4 | Do you know how and when it happened ? ’ |
| 5 | He did n't know where or when it had happened . |
| 6 | Just when you say however or but it means there 's gon na be a problem . |
| 7 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 8 | This is a four-week period in which racing should not be undertaken seriously , but during this time training can become harder and as it does so , it must be directed towards the goal , It may be necessary to allow more time between hard sessions and longer recovery times during the session , until your anti-stress systems get back to normal . |
| 9 | Italy 's air force was told yesterday that unless it bombed fast moving lava flows pouring from Mount Etna to divert their course , the 6,500 people living at the foot of Europe 's highest volcano could face destruction . |
| 10 | And if you turn over onto page four , and at last pick up both the graph and the figures that are shown there and if it helps members , I can also put up the figures on the I suspect not , I think there 's , it becomes a little small for people . |
| 11 | But that only happened sometimes and when it did she would take out her account book and force herself to concentrate on its columns till the dangerous exhilaration had gone . |
| 12 | Follow the track which leads downstream and when it divides , turn right into a field . |
| 13 | The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment which reported in 1953 ( Cmnd. 5932 ) examined the experience of countries throughout the world where the death penalty has been abolished , restored , abolished again or where it existed in some parts and not in others . |
| 14 | It is not always possible to determine at time of intimation whether a carpet will clean satisfactorily or whether it requires to be replaced . |
| 15 | Even in the opera the Passacaglia ends not when the curtain goes up but when it comes down . |
| 16 | Space craft goes up and when it gets to a certain height above the earth it just goes round and round and round . |
| 17 | It also has a residual power to make an appointment if the child has sufficient understanding to give instructions himself and wishes to do so or if it considers that it would be in the child 's best interests to be legally represented ( s41(3) ( 4 ) ( a ) and ( b ) ) . |
| 18 | Careful attention to engine mounting and sound insulation means that the large engine sounds almost as though it belongs to the car in front — a remote burbling noise that seems to have travelled a long way before it reaches the driver 's ear . |
| 19 | Why the sea anemone stays there and whether it gains anything from this relationship is not known . |
| 20 | Finally the tram got underway and as it started to pull up at the end of the track by the foot of Duke Street Hill Carrie was already out of her seat and waiting on the platform at the rear of the vehicle , with Fred at her side gripping her arm for fear that she would fall off before it actually stopped . |
| 21 | Drugs always do better in nervous markets because people need them at least as much , if not more , when the economy is doing badly than when it starts to recover . |
| 22 | A rod that is propped at 45° to the water , quivering slightly as the current pushes against the line , will suddenly slam over as though it has been struck with a sandbag . |
| 23 | He came back from the loo and I had to stop myself telling him what I 'd found out and that it did n't seem silly or neurotic or hopeless or anything , but just very thoughtful and touching . |
| 24 | Theodora replaced the mouthpiece and the telephone shrilled again as though it had been waiting for her to release its ring . |
| 25 | I think she wants to get something sorted so that when it comes it 's open for her . |
| 26 | Such arguments may seem trivial when bodies as thoughtful as the Church of England have taken it upon themselves to ponder the issue of the use of nuclear weapons ; but the bomb has not gone off and when it has receded into the background we will be left with the demand for electricity . |
| 27 | I 'm told it 's the 43rd single release off the album they said they 'd split up after if it did n't outsell Guns N' Roses ( or something ) . |
| 28 | Future hijackers may be smart enough to disable the satcom link but simply knowing where and when it happens could be a useful clue . |
| 29 | He kept on firing until he could see each individual rope on the net , then hauled the nose up and vaulted the balloon , realizing as he did so that if it caught fire now he would be fried . |
| 30 | When we talk about it ( now all too common in public ) , we do so as though it had set fast , even for a moment , in some way . |