Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [conj] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it worked , and it got over to Australia , it got unpacked and it still worked when it got to Australia , and it went on the stand and it stood on the stand for a week or however long it was . |
| 2 | By concession , rental income from surplus business accommodation is taxed under Sch D , Case I rather than Sch A. The Inland Revenue has commented that it normally accepts that current account and trade interest qualify for relief under s 393(8) , ICTA 1988 , as , under certain circumstances , will interest from the temporary lodgement of part of the current working capital in a bank deposit account . |
| 3 | The working party has claimed that it routinely alters MRLs for food . |
| 4 | The Dounreay nuclear plant , the largest nearby industrial commercial operation , has said that it only discharged 1.8 kilograms of cadmium over 10 months last year . |
| 5 | Sharing a home with relatives ( other than parents ) before marriage is another phenomenon which was more common in the past than in the present ( Anderson , 1971 ; 1980 ) Very little is known about circumstances under which young people now may go to live with a non-parental relative , although Gill Jones ( 1987 ) has shown that it still happens for a substantial number , especially those designated as working class on occupational criteria . |
| 6 | And Hewlett-Packard , with its laser printers , has demonstrated that it still has the ability to build a major business from scratch , and its OEM disk drive business , although not very visible , is treated with respect by its competitors . |
| 7 | It has been questioned whether there is much resemblance between a student working in the Nuffield mode and an experimental scientist working in his laboratory , and probably many a teacher of science has wondered whether it logically follows that this objective requires the use of discovery learning . |
| 8 | Till lately , respectable intellectual opinion has held that it hardly mattered at all . |
| 9 | We felt that really needed to be considerably punchier to attract attention and we would have thought that it really needed to be ‘ New Launch gets Canbord council market a tough new policy ’ . |
| 10 | If the rate of expansion one second after the big bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million , the universe would have recollapsed before it ever reached its present size . |
| 11 | It sat upon an ancient heathen site , a site far darker than anything I could ever have conceived and it instantly became part of my well of strength . |
| 12 | In July the company had said that it then expected 32,000 people to take redundancy this year , up from the 20,000 forecast at the beginning of the year : now it says it expects 40,000 to go , 8000 of them in Europe — of which the UK share is 600 , and 4,000 of them in Asia . |
| 13 | She had replied that it still seemed an expensive policy compared with even the dearest of umbrellas , and George had thought about that and said : ‘ You ca n't piss into an umbrella , either . |
| 14 | So much had happened that it hardly seemed so important any more . |
| 15 | Three days had passed before it suddenly struck Lisa that she had so far been spared her most dreaded aggravation — the aggravation of Alexander Vass constantly breathing down her neck . |
| 16 | so it were n't interacting between the two , everything had changed and it still did it , were a new kit , got a cabinet of setting line , changed it and it still did it . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it was necessary to attempt do so : the alternative was to confess that the administration had failed where it most wanted to succeed . |
| 18 | I have checked that it still remains a right and that it is OK to withdraw . |
| 19 | And the flame propagation is so rapid it 's consumed that it just blows . |
| 20 | Feminists have noted that it always seems to be appropriate for men to treat women as if they were intimates or subordinates . |