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

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1 It , it goes click and it 's stopped .
2 According to this interpretation , the associability of each stimulus element might be expected to decline as it becomes associated with others , just as a CS as a whole is thought to lose associability as it becomes linked with a US .
3 Foucault is particularly critical of the appropriating structure of totalization , Marxist or otherwise , insofar as it implies the superiority of the theorist who produces the totalization of knowledge ; in the same way , he distrusts the use of history as an encompassing framework because it works as a power structure that enables the expropriation and control of the past according to the perspective and truth of the present .
4 Failure to do so would confirm the fear of those who say that the Government is so hell-bent on pursuing ideology that it ignores the pressing needs of our industrial community in the build-up to 1992 .
5 It continued to lose weight until it caught the attentioin of a neighbour who reported to the RSPCA that winter .
6 The provision of these conditions will encourage the buildup of soil life , particularly burrowing earthworms , and it is this active soil population which serves as the ‘ repair gang ’ to build an increasingly stable structure and to repair damage as it occurs .
7 They would n't recognise emotion if it stood up and hit them ! ’
8 Somewhere , across the green , a car changed gear as it moved towards Lulling , and hummed away into nothingness .
9 There surely are some people in A&R who would n't recognise talent if it hit them squarely between the eyes and others inebriated on their own power .
10 We allowed our gaze to wander south until it lighted upon the bulk of Ancohuma 's eastern slopes , a face we knew nothing of on a mountain that had only just entered our lives .
11 Even the railway has charm as it curves on a fine viaduct where the River Finnan comes down from the mountains to enter Loch Shiel , a long and narrow sheet of water passing through high portals to reach green pastures after a serpentine course of seventeen miles .
12 you know you stop for twenty minutes , put twenty minutes , and you , you just press return and it throws a map up , a map of part of England
13 We may lack confidence when it comes to discussing , or having sex .
14 The kind of language game in which we talk about ‘ the back of ’ something is one in which that expression has meaning because it has evolved out of all kinds of activity in which ‘ backs ’ exist and can be shown to exist , because verified either by our own movement through space-time or by that of other persons , or both .
15 ‘ And you would n't recognise truth if it jumped up and bit you .
16 you say curtain but it 's spelt curtain which is ridiculous really .
17 She touched this totem carefully , gaining confidence as it quivered and tautened .
18 There was the sound of crunching metal as it hit one of the trees a glancing blow and came to a rocking halt .
19 It was while reading an article about frozen food packaging equipped with a warning patch which changed colour as the food melted , that Wotherspoon made the connection which lies at the root of all great inventions : why not a climbing rope which changed colour after it had been stressed ?
20 ‘ Rule 2 : Where there is a contract for the sale of specific goods and the seller is bound to do something to the goods , for the purpose of putting them into a deliverable state , the property does not pass until the thing is done , and the buyer has notice that it has been done . ’
21 ‘ Rule 3 : Where there is a contract for the sale of specific goods in a deliverable state , but the seller is bound to weigh , measure , test or do some other act or thing with reference to the goods for the purpose of ascertaining the price , the property does not pass until the act or thing is done and the buyer has notice that it has been done . ’
22 QUALITY SOFTWARE PRODUCTS EMPHASISES QUALITY AS IT DISCUSSES PATHFINDER PROSPECTUS FOR FULL LISTING
23 A party is regarded as acquiring control if it has the possibility of exercising " decisive influence " on another party in particular by ownership or the right to use all or part of the assets of the other party , or rights which confer decisive influence on the composition , voting or decisions of the other party 's board of directors or of its shareholders ' meetings .
24 It hideously complicated music and it needs a lot of concentration …
25 In effect , ignoring the effects of gender in this way merely reinforces stereotyping because it does nothing to challenge the definition of certain aspects of the curriculum as masculine or feminine .
26 And desire is starving and its belly grows huge but its lungs continue to process air and it lights small fires everywhere .
27 The east could only overthrow colonialism if it formed a separate Colonial International to fight against it ( and , by implication , the working-class form of colonialism in the Communist party ) .
28 This needs time and it needs support and encouragement , from within the school , from other colleagues , and from the Advisory Service .
29 Nor are the damns always so faint , though they are of course almost always uttered with that tendentious hindsight which devalues protest unless it proclaims class warfare and anticipates the emergence by the twentieth century of political parties created to prosecute it .
30 By daylight it had been a sculptured shaft fluted with runnels of light and darkness , withdrawing stage by stage in charmed proportion , shedding weight and gaining impetus as it soared .
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