Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [coord] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy for adopted parents to feel hurt or rejected and it is only rarely that they and the child make the search together . |
| 2 | The principle of treatment by similars — that what a remedy could produce it could also cure — was as far as we know first put forward by the Greek physician Hippocrates in the fifth century B C. Over the centuries , however , it was forgotten or disregarded and it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that it was rediscovered empirically by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann . |
| 3 | ‘ I decided that was the job that appealed and it 's just as well because at the interview I talked myself out of the other jobs by being so keen on the post office . ’ |
| 4 | Everybody gets on with their own lives and old links get used less and less till they 're forgotten , and before you know it , people are dead and gone and it 's too late . |
| 5 | The streets are narrow and twist and turn and it is not advisable to take a car up them . |
| 6 | There 's an assumption by some politicians that just because there is this immense change taking place in Eastern Europe , that this is victory for Western capitalism erm , I think there might be some of who might be a bit cautious about that victory and might believe that er there is still much that needs to be shared and understood and it is n't as simple as perhaps some political figures might suggest it could be . |
| 7 | Maggie sat on the bed and fumed but it was not long before she started to smile . |
| 8 | We raced and splashed and it was quite easy and natural during one of these rowdy skirmishes simply to slip an arm through the water and put it around her waist . |
| 9 | finds , trying to make room for the cross , he 's tackled and tackled and it 's only a goal kick . |
| 10 | Then they were among them , milling about the horses , and the terrified animals were bucking and screaming and it was all Riven could do to stay mounted . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought we played better against Blackpool and lost but it 's still nice to get three points . |
| 12 | He was off the field throughout the second day having treatment for a pulled thigh muscle , but said today : ‘ I have not felt the injury at all when batting and it is much better . ’ |