Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had schooled it so well that it received the implications of that entire passage of information with no expression at all . |
| 2 | As she returned to her nest , looking around her , she could see it so clearly that it made her laugh . |
| 3 | They 'd get so much grain and they 'd eat it so quickly that it swelled out before they had time to digest it . |
| 4 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 5 | Do n't leave it any longer or it becomes hard to control . |
| 6 | Do n't use the other person 's name or use it artificially so that it jars . |
| 7 | Miss Merchiston went to the last door , thumped twice on it with her clenched fist as if by such violence she announced her coming , and threw it wide so that it bounced off the wall with a crash . |
| 8 | " Take a quart of green gooseberries boil them and pulp them thro " a sieve , take the whites of 3 eggs , beat them to a Froth , put it to the Gooseberries and beat it both together till it looks white , then take ½ pound refin 'd sugar , make it into a Syrrup with Spring Water , boyl it to a Candy , [ i.e. to the small thread ] let it be almost cold then put it to the Gooseberries and Eggs and beat all together till t is all froth , which put into Cups or Glasses — Codlings [ green apples ] may be done the same way . |
| 9 | The food that India produces does not find its way to the people who need it as efficiently as it did in the Maharashtra drought . |
| 10 | ‘ I have no future but my children and my wife will take it as far as it goes . |
| 11 | If , on the other hand , you judged the conversation you heard to be trivial and inconsequential and found yourself only selecting certain parts of it : if you changed it , rewrote it , rethought it completely so that it accorded with your own notion of how that conversation should have proceeded , then you are another sort of writer . |
| 12 | The lovely negro spiritual ‘ Balm in Gilead ’ expresses it very well when it refers to ‘ the sin sick soul . ’ |
| 13 | Not only was the CEGB pursuing it too slowly but it had underestimated the potential , he argued . |
| 14 | We called it that so if it leaked out it would get mixed up with the old Winter Garden names . ’ |