Example sentences of "what it [verb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one was quite sure what it meant but it sounded impressive . |
| 2 | It has but I 've turned the stat back up on the cylinder just made the boiler cut in again cos that 's that 's why the boilers cutting out cos it what it does once it gets up to temperature then it 'll shut itself off . |
| 3 | The treatment of anaemia is more concerned with the uptake of the co-ential vitamin than what it does when it gets to it 's site of action . |
| 4 | I 'm going to look at what happens to helium at low temperatures , and in particular I 'm going to see what it does when it 's stuck onto carbon , which it will do very readily . |
| 5 | That 's what it says when it does n't know and does n't want to admit it . |
| 6 | No major EC country has ever been refused what it wanted when it declared that a vital national interest was at stake . |
| 7 | In this respect considerable reliance was placed upon Lord Diplock 's dictum in Gill and Duffus SA v Berger and Co Inc [ 1984 ] AC 382 : … while " description " itself is an ordinary English word , the Act contains no definition of what it means when it speaks in that section of a contract for the sale of goods being a sale " by description " . |
| 8 | It is , so what it means when it 's lost is , it is not able to fulfil the function for which it was made . |
| 9 | How the poor fellow finally got his report together I do not know but I doubt that even he did n't realise that he was dealing with a supernatural force that did what it liked when it liked . |