Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Even if bitten or pecked it continues to lie limply on the ground .
2 Sentencing the two men , Judge Richard May said he was bearing in mind that the defendants had n't put the money in their own pockets or used it to support expensive lifestyles .
3 Where a summons or other originating process has been served on a defendant by post or insertion in his letter-box under Ord 7 , 4 10(1) ( b ) or 4(a) or r 13(1) ( b ) or ( 4 ) and after judgment has been given or entered it appears to the court that the process did not come to the knowledge of the defendant in time , the court may of its own motion set aside the judgment and may give any direction or make any such order as the court may think just .
4 A local authority , once satisfied that an odour amounts to a statutory nuisance is under a duty to serve an abatement notice in accordance with s.93 of the Public Health Act 1936 on the person whose act , default or sufferance gave rise to the nuisance or caused it to continue , requiring that person , in a specified time , usually two to six months , to abate the nuisance and to execute such remedial works and take such steps as may be necessary for that purpose .
5 Whether your hair is naturally curly or permed it needs extra special care to keep it in tip-top condition .
6 The accidental loss or destruction of a will has no effect upon its validity , and its contents may be proved by the production of copies or drafts , or even by the recollection of persons who have seen it or heard it read .
7 Forgotten , or decided it had been idle talk , a vow impossible to realise .
8 The play doh , the plasticine , what happened to the plasticine , did it float or did it sink ?
9 Did this er , going back to Helliwells again , repairing of the aircraft , did that cease when the war finished or did it continue for a time afterwards ?
10 Did it feel like it was a well-organized group , or did it feel ?
11 ‘ Did it turn your mouth green ? ’ said Rosa to Caterina , ignoring her mother 's placatory offer , ‘ Or did it make your lovely lips pink ? ’
12 Or did it make any difference either way ?
13 Did the population remain more or less static after the dramatic decline in the second half of the fourteenth century , or did it make a rapid recovery from the first wave of epidemics ?
14 or did it mean a few more ‘ Hail Marys ’
15 Or did it mean just what it said ?
16 Or did it regard ‘ conduct ’ , used in the legislation , as being qualified in the same way as ’ misconduct ‘ in Creffield 's contract of employment ?
17 Can it have changed much — or did it rain so pre-emptively that he can not have noticed the lovely inlets at Isleornsay , their green banked lands sloping to soft-coloured waters ?
18 It is hard to judge how much weight should be given to such utterances ; was the designation ‘ northerner ’ intended to be purely geographical and descriptive , or did it reflect a feeling that these were men almost of a different race ?
19 Or did it comment that out ?
20 Now what did you think about this lesson was it a bit boring at some time or you think , Oh or did it go too quickly No .
21 Was it simply curiosity — or did it go deeper than that , and was she right to have this strange feeling of apprehension ?
22 Its mystery somehow diminished life , or did it enlarge it by making life and its purpose more mysterious still .
23 Or did it suit your plans , after that miserable failure last night ? ’
24 Or did it pick me up !
25 Was Venus born dry , or did it become dry ?
26 ) Or did it reveal a conservative attitude at the heart of a movie that is dressed up in hippie garb ?
27 Did this modernism , in Jürgen Habermas 's terms , deepen and extend the rationalist Enlightenment project , or did it undermine that project ?
28 Was it purely physical or did it have a psychosomatic dimension , as her sudden and dramatic recovery could indicate ?
29 Or did it have to be somebody like Sir Edward ?
30 But I w I was wondering myself did the watchmen make up the story or did it come ?
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