Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , we carried on , er , it got better as it went on . |
| 2 | She lay perfectly still , knowing that when the light , filmy shift settled over her body it revealed more than it hid . |
| 3 | Its essence stayed the same but now there was something new in its texture , and it became clearer as it approached . |
| 4 | It had a small receptive field that was somewhat elongated vertically , and on examination with elongated stimuli it became clear that it responded well to a vertical bar but not at all to a horizontal bar . |
| 5 | The government lost credibility and became increasingly unpopular as it became evident that it had failed to meet the targets which it had set itself in the March 1990 radical economic austerity plan [ see pp. 37312-13 ; 37371 ] . |
| 6 | However , it made clear that it tried to keep the duration of such layoffs to a minimum , and suggested also that it was its industrial , not its secretarial/office staff , who were most likely to be affected by them ( interview with Manpower ) . |
| 7 | And it looks nice and it looks like cheese |
| 8 | It looks better than it did . |
| 9 | I think it looks alright when it 's cut back . |
| 10 | It looks So often it looks beautiful and it looks innocent , and people are attracted to it , Christians also . |
| 11 | mine is absolutely I mean it 's , it looks fine and it 's done , but if you actually put the skirt level there are actual places |
| 12 | There is a lot of blood ; it looks red where it seeps into the white sheets , black where it quietly pools . |
| 13 | The programme carried a myriad of possibilities — although it promised more than it delivered on more than one occasion . |
| 14 | It shot past the wizard 's head and he watched it grow smaller as it plummeted towards the circle of upturned muzzles . |
| 15 | It seemed impossible that it had happened , but from his pocket he unwound the cord and let it dangle from his hand . |
| 16 | In summer it gets dry and it goes like like . |
| 17 | Because the Isle of Dogs is really a peninsula , it gets congested where it joins the land . |
| 18 | It gets stronger when it includes ‘ to be addicted to ’ . |
| 19 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 20 | Oh no it 's a full door which is er when you open it it stays open and it 's got er what do you call it ? |
| 21 | It appears baffling because it seems to call no attention to itself . |
| 22 | Since two different groups of headlines appear in E [ the last sheet but three ] it is obvious that an interruption occurred while E was printing ; and it appears probable that it came about because the printer abruptly decided to run off a small number of complete copies of the book for sale while the opera was being presented and then to finish the entire edition at leisure . |
| 23 | It seems squat because it covers more than 265,000 square metres . |
| 24 | As an apparently domestic residence it seems strange that it replaced a timber structure which has been interpreted as a temple , although time elapsed between the latter 's destruction and the building of the house ; it is unusual to find so deliberate a secularization of a religious site in the Roman world . |
| 25 | It seems possible that it operated fitfully until the spring of 1911 . |
| 26 | But it is striking how little , either in internal reports or in those of the Sopade , the ‘ Jewish Question ’ figures in remarks about Hitler 's popular standing , and it seems unlikely that it formed , for most ‘ ordinary ’ Germans , the main reason for their adulation of the Führer . |
| 27 | Without the original bill we can not be certain of the government 's objectives ; but on balance it seems unlikely that it wished to replace statutory legislation by proclamation . |
| 28 | It seems sensible that it goes with wherever the |
| 29 | If there is a single function relating arousal and memory it seems likely that it takes the inverted-U shape which is often suggested to describe the relationship between task performance and memory , with memory impairments occurring at very low or very high levels of arousal . |
| 30 | This is no accident ; it seems likely that it results from a deliberate policy decision taken somewhere on high . |