Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong .
2 washing thing I said someone and it 's gone ! dun n it ?
3 I really hate anybody who 's being horrible to somebody because it makes me feel bad .
4 She found nothing and it hurt so badly .
5 ‘ I started with nothing and it did n't do any harm , ’ she said , in the look-at-me-now manner of the comfortably off .
6 I say this because the Sloth so far has done nothing and it appears he does n't plan to do anything except now he is reading a James Michener book .
7 But at least the fusion community needs such volumes to remind it that at the end of the day the scientific juggling will come to nothing if it does not lead to a convenient and not too expensive source of electricity .
8 What we think as , as Frank said erm , our policy is to accrue erm , income , which we think we 'll get in cash terms the following year , ie , we 're not gon na accrue it as soon as B Sky B expenses it , which is one end of the spectrum of erm , imprudence you could say or , and the other end , extreme prudence is to account for nothing until it 's cleared er , in the bank balance .
9 We 'll hear nothing until it runs out , and then she 'll put the tap on you again .
10 A lively , fun resort it really offers something to suit everyone and it makes an ideal base for exploring Veneto 's many other attractions .
11 Among the EC 's 166 regions there are only 17 where agriculture provides more than 10% of the regional product , and none where it generates more than 30% of the gross value added .
12 It will be seen that the presence of a receiving target explains nothing but it does nudge two previously separate areas of discourse , the mind and the body , into a common sphere .
13 Victory , therefore , solves nothing unless it eliminates the source of the antagonism which produced war in the first place .
14 Well the government subsidizes them a lot for , for a start and it 's , again it 's the government , the philosophy of the gover of a government either subsidize something or it does n't , does n't it , and it subsidizes what it
15 like your , your plug leads are , just one 's popped off or something or it 's got ta bit loose something like that
16 Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made .
17 With any shock into the body there are only two burns , one where the shock went in and one where it left .
18 This is done when some identifiable change takes place , perhaps in the law or in social policy , and the researcher studies its effects by comparing the before-and-after situation or the situation in a group where the change has taken place with one where it has not .
19 I became really depressed because no matter how much I loved my children or tried to take care of them , I could neither keep the doctor at bay or the fungus that was destroying everything that it came into contact with .
20 I have learnt that the sun and the stars are eternally good , and that my body leaps in contact with this sparkling world and everything that it contains from the minds of Beethoven and Shakespeare to food and drink and a soft night 's sleep .
21 At the time of birth , however , an angel strikes its upper lip , so causing it to forget everything that it has seen and learned .
22 So — in the year in which we 've forced the text-centred discipline that is rock writing to incorporate everything that it has excluded for so long ( the relationship between the star 's body and the fan 's , the voice , the materiality of music ) — maybe it 's time to make criticism grapple with what undoes it , ‘ the uncritical ’ itself .
23 But here 's a thought for both men : there are times when a nation has to be persuaded to do something that it does not want to do because its future welfare demands it .
24 It was something that it had happened at all .
25 It can provide a precis only where the topic is something that it knows about , so that it has some sense of what conceptual relationships to expect in the story .
26 Under the auspices of Scottish/Canadian editor Andy Gray , the paper was faced with a dilemma and one that it had great difficulty resolving , namely how a paper still steeped in show business traditions could come to terms with a new music that was deliberately and defiantly anti-commerciality and the supposed ‘ circus ’ of the pop world .
27 The expedient normally used to defend this outrageous suppression of the truth is the feeble one that it avoids ‘ stereotyping ’ blacks as criminals .
28 A number of explanations suggest themselves for this strange impulse towards self-effacement in men who loved power , besides the official one that it served to maintain the standing of the native authorities in the eyes of the people .
29 At any rate , in this way if in no other , the English ideal of the artist as amateur has a continuing validity — and one that it behoves us , as Poundians , to acknowledge more often than we do .
30 Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’
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