Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Senate may vote this week on a bill to give the proposed department that authority , but the issue is expected to remain controversial when it moves to the House of Representatives . |
| 2 | Although the mainstream group , Fatah , made clear that it ruled out any question of subverting the Hashemite regime , other groups , of which the PFLP was the most notable , made equally clear their view that the overthrow of the Hashemites was a necessary preliminary to the recovery of Palestine . |
| 3 | Western leaders , including John Major , yesterday came out in Mr Yeltsin 's defence and the White House made clear that it wanted to go ahead with the planned summit meeting between President Bill Clinton and Mr Yeltsin in April . |
| 4 | However , it made clear that it tried to keep the duration of such layoffs to a minimum , and suggested also that it was its industrial , not its secretarial/office staff , who were most likely to be affected by them ( interview with Manpower ) . |
| 5 | And then I got another when it come to nineteen eighteen we got bombed out again . |
| 6 | The dream-poems of Chaucer and the French medieval poets before him make clear that it did not . |
| 7 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 8 | Monarchy became itinerant as it had not been since the Middle Ages , but the reason for this was not administrative but political and diplomatic . |
| 9 | It had a small receptive field that was somewhat elongated vertically , and on examination with elongated stimuli it became clear that it responded well to a vertical bar but not at all to a horizontal bar . |
| 10 | Now Botswana could not cut itself off from South Africa during the long years of apartheid but Botswana did make clear that it opposed apartheid and voiced this very strongly and much to the annoyance often of the South African government . |
| 11 | I do n't know how you 'd describe that but it 's er it 's got all the features of an innocent little blob . |
| 12 | Like Loch Hourn , which in configuration it resembles closely , Loch Nevis is an inlet of the Sound of Sleat , initially wide but becoming narrow as it thrusts through the hills . |
| 13 | Allison would respond by becoming moody and it soured many of the sessions . |
| 14 | You smell that and it smells like sweaty armpits |
| 15 | Philip had n't expected that and it unnerved him . |
| 16 | After that came my Marx and Schweitzer phase but I started getting greedy and wanting them all rolled into one and then somebody told me that we 've got to learn to love ourselves , so I tried that but it seemed a bit selfish . |
| 17 | ‘ We tried that and it did n't work , ’ the kingfisher told her . |
| 18 | The notion that ideas come only from the professional specialists in the field must not be allowed to obtrude , nor the traditional ‘ we tried that and it did n't work ’ story . |
| 19 | The notion that ideas come only from the professional specialists in the field must not be allowed to obtrude , nor the traditional ‘ we tried that and it did n't work ’ story . |
| 20 | What ca n't ca n't , do we really need this because it does n't say you have to throw it away after a year . |
| 21 | Jason Donovan was also eleven , at school in Melbourne and also launching his acting career in Skyways , which he found exciting because it meant he could take some time off school . |
| 22 | I tried this and it worked . |
| 23 | For example , a book about human rights in the context in which we live can be considered subversive because it disagrees with the vision of those in authority . ’ |
| 24 | For example , a book about human rights in the context in which we live can be considered subversive because it disagrees with the vision of those in authority . ’ |
| 25 | From the street the terrace looks much as it did when Lorimer and Miller had finished their works nearly 200 years ago . |
| 26 | mine is absolutely I mean it 's , it looks fine and it 's done , but if you actually put the skirt level there are actual places |
| 27 | But like medicine it did him good , and the food tasted better than it looked , and after a while the silence grew less tense and they began to chat about the contrast between bloody-minded , earnest Perugia , just visible on its wind-swept ridge as a distant smudge of grey , and Assisi , symbol of everything nice and pretty and kind , whose pink stone made even its fortifications look as innocent as an illustration in a book of fairy tales . |
| 28 | If you 'd wanted to separate off your paras , you 'd put in a full size slug because it was easy to make up and the whole thing was absolutely modular erm but perhaps it would have looked better if it had been A four , or you know , Swiss in some way . |
| 29 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 30 | It looks better than it did . |