Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try not to click with mouse and type on the keyboard while Windows is frozen because when it comes back it acts on all of the commands that you have given it — so apparently switching from a state of deep sleep to rapid activity that can look like another stage in a serious crash ! |
| 2 | Looks as though it had been cut out for some reason . |
| 3 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
| 4 | So if there 's one draw , for example , or one match which looks as though it stands out as an absolutely surefire score draw , and everybody puts it down , and it comes up as a score draw , then nobody gains anything . |
| 5 | One way that looks as though it works is simply to enter the formula +A5 into C5 and then copy from A5 to A6 … |
| 6 | It looks as though it stopped work a decade ago . |
| 7 | Chair , it looks as though it includes not only c councillors , but certainly former officers . |
| 8 | The organiser of The Other Story , Rasheed Araeen , has made much study of the art criticism of the early Seventies and the post-modernist theories of the Eighties , and his work looks as though it has no knowledge of the world not gleaned from art magazines . |
| 9 | Nothing looks worse , and does a poorer job , than a worm which has been stuck on the hook several times and looks as though it has been tied in a knot . |
| 10 | For instance , you can build up a design that looks as though it has been pressed as a single spray ( see pp. 98–9 ) , although in fact each flower and leaf should be positioned with care to give a natural effect . |
| 11 | The low cost of setting up such a system allows people who have never ventured beyond typewriter or wordprocessor to produce material which looks as though it has been professionally typeset . |
| 12 | To these pieces she applies flourishes of paint in mad swoops of colour — a chair looks as though it has been wrapped in a Mexican Indian blanket , a small table is covered in a riot of pattern , full of references to Memphis — the Milan school and Tennessee . |
| 13 | ‘ A modest house with a small garden where the grass looks as though it has been cut with nail-scissors and weeded with a forceps ; a dolls ’ house , with nothing out of place , everything polished and dusted . ’ |
| 14 | Like Irons 's immaculate body , which looks as though it has spent too long in the gym , it is all very pretty , and attractive , and unsurprising . |
| 15 | While the uppers often irritatingly remain almost as new as they day they came out of the box , the outsole looks as though it 's been left behind on the concrete , which of course it has . |
| 16 | It looks as though it 's been in a few scrapes before . ’ |
| 17 | And it looks as though it 's picked up the middle page . |
| 18 | It looks as though it 's stopped raining now . |
| 19 | Well everything looks as though it 's had a good water now . |
| 20 | Well if it looks as though it needs a drop we can always pour a drop in ca n't we ? |
| 21 | I wo n't say through the door , looks as if it has been . |
| 22 | Only one arrangement looked as though it belonged together : those two lines of dots and blanks , they must be binary numbers . |
| 23 | The mist looked as though it had been created by the BBC special effects department for a studio play about Jack the Ripper , and yards away I could hear voices without being able to see the humans making the sound . |
| 24 | We had a 3.15 PM start , and we 'd only played one hole when the end of the world looked as though it had come and we had to shelter in the R&A tent . |
| 25 | As the first rays of morning sunlight streamed through the open doorway , the newly-plastered room looked as though it had been covered in the night by a fine layer of pinkish-buff snow . |
| 26 | His hair , by contrast , fell untidily to his shoulders and his patchy beard looked as though it had been stuck on at random . |
| 27 | The cottage , with its lichen-covered roof , looked as though it had grown out of the moor . |
| 28 | Alfred 's shop looked as though it had been closed and deserted for months ; it was hard to believe that it was only three days since a few people , at least , had been entering through the rickety door with its small glass panes to buy patent medicines or seek advice . |
| 29 | Bicker 's face looked as though it had been ground out on a millstone , but Ratagan was beaming . |
| 30 | For once he really looked quite smart , in well-cut grey trousers that emphasised the length of his legs and strength of his thighs , and a cream shirt that actually looked as though it had been ironed . |