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

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1 The sonnet which apparently seeks to contain the truth of the youth 's beauty so as to gain power and control over it , exposes that it destroys and banishes the youth 's beauty .
2 We 're out there riding as hard as we can and if that gives any of the supporters any sort of er consolation , I do n't know if it does or not , but it — we 're really giving our best all the time and er win , lose or draw you 'll always find us every time we 've got a doing our best and er although often some people might shout and scream and give us a hard time , er it 's not for , for lack of trying , I mean nobody wants to finish last and er me even more than most , so just get behind us and shout and scream and we 'll try our hardest .
3 Leave the chocolate to stand until it cools and the mixture thickens slightly .
4 " I do n't know whether it does or not , " said Nenna .
5 ‘ I really do n't know whether it does or not …
6 However , when searching for a particular route from the ‘ z ’ , a linear search must be employed to establish whether it exists or not , which slows down the search time compared with the 26-way tree where all 26 routes are allocated .
7 They walked towards the unsteady steps , and a figure took shape out of the darkness , weaving as it came and blinking dazedly as the lantern was lifted to illuminate its face .
8 Jackie and Jaafer insist that it stands and are prepared to take the company on in court .
9 No that 's what happens if it happens but how would you avoid it ?
10 And what will you do if it rains and you have n't got your anorak on the deck , Dick ?
11 Oh , just wait till it comes and see what happens .
12 The ‘ rural method ’ entails no separate second fermentation ; it is merely a continuation of the first process , the wines being bottled before it terminates and thus allowing the first fermentation to continue in the bottle .
13 Understand why something happens as it does and you are your own master , able to use your common sense and logic to make judgements and decisions .
14 What happens when it burns or explodes , so the okay , the potassium nitrate and the carbon and the sulphur burn and they give quite a bit of er C O two .
15 The occasional hairline crack in external brickwork need not be of any significance , but should be observed over a period to see if it extends or widens .
16 I would wait a few weeks to see if it grows or clears up of its own accord and if it is still there , go to the vet .
17 Even a fairly stable trailer will start to swing if it overtakes or is overtaken by a large truck .
18 So construed , a specific issue order means what the cognoscenti always thought that it meant but , since one member of the other group , the ‘ incognoscenti , ’ perhaps was a bit puzzled by it in the first place , I thought it was worthwhile to clarify the matter on this occasion .
19 If there is to be a conspiracy , at least everyone will see that it exists and will know who is involved .
20 The 1991/92 annual report of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has shown that it prosecuted and won less than 2 per cent of cases of river pollution reported during the period .
21 For example , in flowering plants the haploid stage is reduced to the pollen tube , derived from a haploid pollen grain that falls on the stigma of a flower and grows until it reaches and fertilizes the egg cell that lies in the flower 's ovary .
22 Of course , in theory , the mirror image rule makes printed forms matter since it encourages or even forces parties receiving documents to read them carefully .
23 That these two expressions relating to are equivalent is easily verified since it requires or The validity of this last relation is best seen by appreciating that , according to equations ( 9.1 ) and ( 9.2 ) , the characteristic impedances obey and Making use of equations ( 9.1 ) and ( 9.5 ) and writing the ratio as u , it follows from equations ( 9.3 ) and ( 9.4 ) that the transfer function of a T or Π-section of the form of ladder filter under consideration is given by In general u and hence will be complex and it is helpful at this juncture to put where γ is known as the propagation constant .
24 Unfortunately , the program tries to be too many different things at once , and as a result it is n't easy to use as it claims and performs quite slowly .
25 So you ca n't con you can control when it comes but you ai n't gon na ch you 're not gon na control how much you pay for , for , for almost anything , I 'm afraid .
26 Therefore the said Justice Depute by the mouth of Duncan McIlvory Dempster of Court adjudged and ordained the above named to be taken upon the twelfth day of this instant month of June being Monday next to the ordinary place of execution and then and there be hanged upon a Gibbet till he die the death and his right hand to cut off and to be affixed to the most conspicuous place of the tollbooth of Killvorow in Ila there to continue till it rot or wear away , and ordained his moveables to be confiscated .
27 If , however , no undertakings can be negotiated and the MMC investigates the merger and finds that it operates or may be expected to operate against the public interest , the Secretary of State has power to order the parties not to proceed with a proposed merger or to order divestment by the purchasing company if the merger has been completed .
28 He watched until it disappeared and then he skipped happily back down the hill .
29 But , as ever , it never rains but it pours and typically I had to say ‘ no ’ to that in order to do Brian May 's gig .
30 Limitations are imposed by the fact that you have to wait two months for the educational psychologist , you have to close the biology lab when it rains because it leaks and they have n't sent anyone to repair it yet , you have to apply for a short in-service course rather than the full-time MA that you really wanted to do because there are n't any secondments any more .
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