Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] it [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sentence has only one invariant meaning , or if it has more than one , as in the case of structural or lexical ambiguity , its meanings can be exactly specified . |
| 2 | Another possibility is that a woman had a bomb wired to her , and that it went off as she gave flowers to Mr Gandhi . |
| 3 | Is it possible that a body was put in the basin early on Saturday morning and that it remained there until the next high tide without being seen ? ’ |
| 4 | The tremolo is especially worthy of note : it is extremely smooth in operation and although it detuned slightly when used in real anger , it settled in more each time I played it . |
| 5 | Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see . |
| 6 | She could hear Mary Deare droning on : ‘ Her light is going faint , and if it goes out that means she is dead . |
| 7 | And if it turns out that the right mood has arrived at last , there are plenty of ideas waiting for attention . |
| 8 | And if it turned out that he would n't , then dragons were always hungry and needed to be fed regularly . |
| 9 | As an alternative to the last submission it was argued that the money was paid to and received by the revenue under an implied agreement that it would be held as a deposit against tax that might be held to have been due at the dates of payment and that it would be repaid if and when it turned out that no tax was due . |
| 10 | And as the particles go round and round this racetrack , it 's a bit like a car with its headlights going on , and as it goes faster and faster the car headlights more or less catch up with each other , you see what I 'm saying . |
| 11 | It takes a little of the Continental Plate with it , producing a rare and exotic melt of rock ; and as it goes down and melts , and as its volume changes and its physical chemistry alters , so this deep-diving mess of ocean rock contorts and winces , and deep-seated earthquakes and violent eruptions occur . |
| 12 | The ship was constantly visited by birds , and as it ventured further and further from home shores , Gould 's hopes of seeing new species , or at least species he had never seen alive before , rose to dizzying heights of expectation . |
| 13 | But just at that moment a smart new van came into view round the bend , and as it drew nearer and Brenda could see the driver , she let out a cry . |
| 14 | Suppose that I claimed yesterday to know that it would rain in the afternoon , on the normal grounds ( weather forecast , gathering clouds , etc. ) , but that it turns out that I was wrong . |
| 15 | While its hindquarters are towards you there is no real danger , but if it turns round and you can see its head you can bet that a bid to escape is pending . |
| 16 | You can not , for instance , turn someone into a surfing champion just because he 's at the seaside , but if it turns out that he has a genuine interest in fishing and some skills as a fisherman you can centre pictures and film on that . |
| 17 | But if it turns out that the units make an independent contribution , then there is a further level-of-analysis problem . |
| 18 | This is the usual case , but if it turns out that a particular file is very volatile the less restrictive system should be used . |
| 19 | I know , but if it works out that we have n't got the flat then what the fuck are we gon na do ? |
| 20 | But if it did n't and they were n't forthcoming , then erm |
| 21 | But if it rises suddenly or to a high level , he will need to consider whether you are developing high blood pressure problems or pre-eclampsia . |
| 22 | This " self-determination " speech , as it became known , was probably the most important that he delivered during the Algerian conflict — not because it expressed radically new ideas , but because it expressed openly and in concrete terms what had hitherto been implicit . |
| 23 | The wider question is not whether the summary falls apart because the staples are not strong enough , but whether it falls apart because it is not sufficiently objective simply because it has been commissioned , paid for and its contents finally determined by the promoter of the original Bill , now working in co-operation with the Government . |
| 24 | but when it laying here and you look at this little box there , okay , with the real Doncaster |
| 25 | Out of control it caused dreadful havoc , but when it ran smoothly and sweetly it not only modified life 's aridity but added a pleasing dimension to the view , while Lydia , at present , was using it only to make mud pies . |
| 26 | erm that then do n't come on either , but when it clicks like that they flash together and they both light up , and then when you start it up they go up and then they come back on again |
| 27 | ( The meeting started in a vegetarian restaurant but when it turned out that the table was already booked , we carried on outside , in a freezing wind . |