Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does all that carbon will do about ten times over , can visually be checked for when it is fully loaded , and will NOT release the lot back into the water even when fully charged . |
| 2 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 3 | Each of the 30 rooms is arranged as if it were still in use — the Little Drawing Room was designed by Robert Adam with gilded mouldings and intricate wall paintings . |
| 4 | Where religion is reduced to either , and treated as if it were simply a form of knowing or a form of doing , it is lost to sight altogether . |
| 5 | They were particularly anxious to avoid having ‘ topic ’ , in discourse study , treated as if it were somehow expressible by a simple noun phrase , as often happens in the treatment of sentential topics . |
| 6 | King 's Jester used to be a very spooky horse and would shy at the same jump , stacked in the corner of the school , every single day and if anything was moved to a different position , he would behave as if it were about to leap out and get him . |
| 7 | The open-windowed room looked as if it was quite far away from the main body of the Workshops . |
| 8 | When gardening he often wore very baggy trousers with braces , gum boots and a waist-length black donkey jacket which hung loose and looked as if it was too short . |
| 9 | ‘ It looks as if it 's just starting up , ’ he said as the sound of pop music drifted towards them . |
| 10 | Yeah by D X otherwise it looks as if it 's just D Y |
| 11 | Constant rain , and when it 's not raining it looks as if it 's about to . |
| 12 | Though at any given amount it looks as if it is n't going anywhere , it 's always on the move , lumbering from crisis to crisis . |
| 13 | ‘ It looks as if it is probably down to the two of us , ’ said Grindley . |
| 14 | After about five minutes you may need to change the blotters but , eventually , when it looks as if it is not going to curl , you can remove the weight and let it air dry . |
| 15 | There is a smaller bedroom and a tiny , suspiciously tidy kitchen , which looks as if it is not often used . |
| 16 | We wandered over Clare Bridge , which always looks as if it is about to collapse , and then up to St John 's , where we stood on the old Wren bridge and talked for some time , gazing at the so-called Bridge of Sighs which connects the old and new parts of St John 's . |
| 17 | Only now it looks as if it was n't . |
| 18 | The union representative is looking into the case to see if the company have a negligence claim to answer , but at the moment it rather looks as if it was entirely Len 's fault . |
| 19 | The fatal , fateful thing was that for a century the device appeared to work : Canada felt and behaved as if it was still part of the empire . |
| 20 | Butyl is the best liner to work with because it 's more flexible , and you can expect many trouble-free years from it provided you do n't assume it 's immune to damage . |
| 21 | Near the Clonmacnoise entrance , the river had overflowed into the fields , beside a misshapen castle tower that perched on a hummock , balanced at an angle and looking as if it were about to fall over . |
| 22 | We were not sure what they were looking for but it was almost certainly for these 10 or 12 instruments that were now gaping holes in the dashboard of the abandoned aeroplane down on the airfield . |
| 23 | And he does so and he finds and squares the ball to his right , Alan made an advance for it but it 's was there first , put ball forward looking for and it 's just beyond the fair haired striker and races away to pick it up . |
| 24 | We knew what he was looking for and it was n't there . |
| 25 | ‘ Here , let me pull the paper off now that you 've undone the ribbon and tape , or it wo n't feel as if it 's really for me . ’ |
| 26 | Why not just ignore the decision and act as if it was never made ? |
| 27 | Act as if it were already true . |
| 28 | Indeed the gallery can be seen as if it were only ( which of course it is also ) a mere technical device for the objects to be displayed . |
| 29 | I think that some of the playing on Crowned and on Insomnicide is just as good as virtually anything I 've done before and it 's just sheer nostalgia to suggest otherwise . ’ |
| 30 | After much discussion and some practise sorties a dogfight routine was worked out , as Lindsey recalls : ‘ In those days dogfighting World War Two aircraft at airshows was a routine that the public had not really seen before and it was rather exciting for us pilots to re-enact the aerial combats of yesteryear . |