Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | At its official relaunch , the new party leadership promised to field at least 250 candidates , and to concentrate on " politically interesting " seats , although it admitted that it could not win any . |
| 2 | It is not obvious why the Court was concerned with the possible application of Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 to the activation of the suspended sentence in this case ( although it concluded that it did not apply in any event ) . |
| 3 | It still retained the same dark blue colour that it had when it was stamped into the passport by a British policeman 32 years earlier ; last exit from Palestine . |
| 4 | You know , it 's er it 's got the bad publicity that it had and it 's still got it , well I do n't think it has to be . |
| 5 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 6 | Higham and Jones have argued , on the sole evidence of internal timber buildings , that another fort was constructed after a short interval early in the second century , and that it survived until it was demolished in the late second century ; no contemporary fortifications for it have yet been recorded . |
| 7 | The increasing number of no-union deals in high technology and other industrial endeavours at the cutting edge of technical innovation inevitably invests the employee compensation scheme with greater potential importance than it assumed when it first became law . |
| 8 | Perhaps the display asked more questions than it answered but it 's clear that the young stars are staking claims early . |
| 9 | ‘ The Michelangelo computer virus that received worldwide attention last year is expected to cause even fewer problems this Saturday than it did when it struck last year , a team of IBM researchers said ’ . |
| 10 | It is worth remembering that Basildon and Thurrock health authority now treats 11,000 more patients in hospital each year than it did when it was first created in 1982 . |
| 11 | They had evolved once , so it seemed that it must be possible to evolve them again . |
| 12 | Last August BML called on publishers to submit a smaller , more selective number of titles , and it announced that it was compiling a ‘ top title ’ list for the winter sale . |
| 13 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 14 | And if some , er , jus it was very thin slices of beef , topside of well I thought I 'll get some beef out , and I did it in the microwave and it cooked but it was it was quite tough . |
| 15 | and I just , I threw buckets of water on it to rinse it , and it dried because it was really warm and it came up like new |
| 16 | Went into the supermarket and it said and it said pour , not it said erm pour le animal , well any fool would have thought that was poor the animals , and Carol said that looks nice , we 'll , we 'll have a pile of that ! |
| 17 | Ample proof indeed that it had recognized them and it realized that it was the entrance to its home . |
| 18 | It glared and it floated and it flew like the Devil . |
| 19 | And it stopped when it hit something . |
| 20 | Indeed , recombination probably emerged very early indeed in the history of life , and it spread because it was a way of repairing damaged nucleic acids . |
| 21 | He urged his horse on home , and for the first time that day it responded by breaking into a trot for a few yards , until it decided that it was more comfortable to walk . |
| 22 | the round number plate if it had if it had gone round to there again it would have done it . |
| 23 | As for Carol herself , she was quite prepared to recall the incident if it meant that it would help to convict the rapist . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't believe it ! ’ he cried , but held on to her firmly so that she had a very concrete impression that , if it happened that it was the truth , he had no intention of letting her go , not now . |
| 25 | It 's based on a kind of cowardice , a lack of reliance on your own judgement if it suceeded before it 'll succeed again , it 's just a money making machine and shows no literary thought by the publishers . |
| 26 | " Aye , " said the old farmer , " that 's cos it smoked when it were little . " |
| 27 | Though small in comparison to the size of the total workforce , there were 33 of us , but it felt like it was 66 . |
| 28 | AT&T Co says it is studying a device that would turn an ordinary television set into a terminal that could call up films , shows and information or act as a video telephone , but it insisted that it is only in the prototype phase and denied a Los Angeles Times story that a field test of the technology would be announced next month ; it would neither confirm nor deny that it is teaming up with BellSouth Corp and Viacom International Inc in the interactive television work . |
| 29 | But it emerged that it was unlikely the child was on her own for more than a day , as neighbours volunteered to look after her . |
| 30 | and at one stage when I was walking in India we used to stay at bungalows and one was called Marian Shola and another was called Pine Shola , because it meant that it was a , it was a bungalow in a group of pine trees |