Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean Mao will have no merit in actually distorting it deliberately to try and motivate his leaders because |
| 2 | In a field landing it often happens that on the final approach or even during the hold off you realise that the first part of the field is not as smooth as it is further along . |
| 3 | ‘ Fru Møller just told that lady that it never rains here in August , but the dolls say it often does and they packed their mackintoshes ! ’ |
| 4 | The judges must have forgotten their watches.Truth is , the battle is so absorbing it always extends until an obvious champion is emerges ; the last lonely Rokkaku deserves its 6 points as it descends unscathed . |
| 5 | Where the Act applies a reasonableness test it generally provides that a party can not exclude or restrict liability " except in so far as the term satisfies the test of reasonableness " ( ss2 , 3 , 4 ) or that liability can be excluded or restricted " but only in so far as the term satisfies the test of reasonableness " ( ss6 , 7 ) . |
| 6 | Richard Dyer has described how Coward 's songwriting , along with that of other gay lyricists like Cole Porter and Lorenz Hart , can be productively reread in terms of their specifically homosexual perception of the double-edged nature of romantic love — simultaneously wanting it desperately to happen but convinced of the impossible ridiculousness of any such desire . |
| 7 | A closer look at this challenge will be afforded in Chapter 5 but suffice it here to say that the military 's vested interest in the established planning system , long a fixed point on the compass , may be changing . |
| 8 | Suffice it here to say that this problem was finally dispensed with in 1833 , by banishing unc ( ! ) : |
| 9 | Suffice it here to say that there have emerged other groups of educationists who present alternative views . |
| 10 | Suffice it here to note that I do not mean that all religions are really saying the same thing ; that differences do not matter , that they all have basically the same origins , or fulfil the same functions . |
| 11 | America Online Inc is challenging Prodigy Services Co , which just announced plans to charge usage fees for the most heavily-used databases on its viewdata service , by cutting prices to its own 250,000 subscribers : the company says it deliberately waited until after the Prodigy announcement to disclose its new pricing , hoping to maximise attention for its move and woo subscribers away from the IBM Corp-Sears , Roebuck & Co joint venture ; under its new plan , subscribers will pay $9.95 a month for five hours of access to all its services , a rate that it claims is less than half the price of Prodigy 's new tariff ; extra hours will cost $3.50 each ; at Prodigy , subscribers pay $14.95 a month for unlimited access to many of the features but from July 1 will pay surcharges after spending two hours on widely-used bulletin boards . |
| 12 | The fact that God had done it once meant that he could do it again . |
| 13 | I imagine it perhaps starting as one , and then escalating , as Serafin waits , smiling eagerly at her pupil , and Summerchild hunts back through his life for the required circumstances , covering his retreat with bursts of fire as he goes . |
| 14 | It is legislation in an area in which Parliament itself has not thought it right to legislate and thus , in my view , it steps outside the judicial function . |
| 15 | Through binoculars I could tell that it was part of an animal , and I could see it gently moving as it breathed . |
| 16 | Magee paid it little heed as he continued his nocturnal stroll , looking around him constantly , occasionally slowing down to look over his shoulder or perhaps changing direction quickly , ducking into a group of people . |
| 17 | If pilots are apprehensive about cable breaks it probably means that they are uncertain about what they should do in all situations , and whether they can manage . |
| 18 | It will be usual practice for information which the Social Work Department receives after 1st April 1989 to be shared in a responsible and sensitive way , with the client to whom it relates , UNLESS the person providing it specifically requests that we do not do so . |
| 19 | He pressed it gently shut and it held ; loosely and with a slight gap , but it held . |
| 20 | If we take Sheldrake 's ideas about morphogenetic fields seriously , we may have the suggestion of a hidden energy field actually underlying the formation of the landscape itself , giving it both form and character . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's terribly difficult , I keep having to read it again to try and work it out , ’ Gordon says by telephone from New York , where she is enjoying the acclaim for After the War , last summer 's Frederic Raphael TV series for Granada in which she played the Raphael alter ego 's wife . |
| 22 | Do I take it now to mean that that means parents who have not been baptised ? |
| 23 | This painful , though , in its context , highly effective course of action was part and parcel of a brutal and unenlightened society and no doubt it left all those who survived it spiritually stunted and psychologically scarred . |
| 24 | You know like your i if you move into an army quarter you can have it fully furnished if you want , I mean |
| 25 | Well it automatically comes on you see it it 's all frozen at the moment it will probably shoot out itself I did try it once to try and pull it out but , I think |
| 26 | A crumb of chocolate stuck to her lip , where Coffin watched it slowly melt as he spoke to her . |
| 27 | The English discouraged the colony , the Spanish first watched it carefully to see that it showed no sign of succeeding and eventually in 1700 they captured it . |
| 28 | A drop of soap trickled into his eyes and he rubbed it only to find that he had created more pain . |
| 29 | That does n't mean it necessarily worked or was good ; but , once the script is settled in your mind , the best you can hope for is that the finished film reflects those ambitions . |
| 30 | My mind 's eye saw it well tamed and abloom with all kinds of ground-cover plants . |