Example sentences of "it [verb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It failed because it precipitated a managerial revolution in Courtaulds , which in turn led to the defeat of the bid and the rapid recovery of the company . |
| 2 | First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes . |
| 3 | If you use a videocassette recorder with this facility , check it to see if it has a socket you can plug a microphone into . |
| 4 | If you use too high a concentration , it irritates and it stains even more than the dilute stuff does . |
| 5 | In being normative it avows that it does not necessarily conform to everyone 's notion of authority in all detail . |
| 6 | And then it got that it blew over did n't it ? |
| 7 | if I 'd have known about that , if it goes , it goes and it do n't we should get something out of it . |
| 8 | This may be the extreme consequence of a health service which , although it insists that it puts patients first , often does n't do so at all . |
| 9 | Well it 's like erm an it 's like it make it fancy and it goes |
| 10 | ‘ Barnet 's barmy army ’ it read and it seemed an apt description of an outfit that are n't Even Barry Fry , the manager whose latest sacking and return enlivened another crazy week at Underhill , admits that the club , which beat Rochdale 2-0 on Saturday , is a laughing stock . |
| 11 | Yesterday it announced that it had signed a letter of intent to sell its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , repository of all its Sparc work , to Fujitsu Ltd for $23m . |
| 12 | Last week it announced that it had signed a letter of intent to sell its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , repository of all its Sparc work , to Fujitsu Ltd for $23m . |
| 13 | The first details of the annexation were broadcast by the PFKG on Aug. 8 when it announced that it had asked Iraq to approve a " complete full unity merger between Kuwait and Iraq , so that Saddam Hussein will be our leader " . |
| 14 | After a comparative lull in activity in early 1989 [ see p. 37587 ] the Basque separatist organization Euskadi ta Askatasuna ( ETA — Basque Homeland and Liberty ) stepped up its campaign of violence when on Aug. 13 , 1990 , it announced that it had planted bombs , scheduled to explode within the next fortnight , on three railway lines out of Madrid . |
| 15 | For males sex may be very important , but for females reproduction may be , may be more significant if it involves as it does in the case of all mammals and certainly human beings , considerable parental investment on the part of the mother . |
| 16 | An organisation might become so widely diversified in the range of products or services it offers that it becomes difficult , if not impossible , for management to integrate all of the organisation under a common objective and within a single ‘ management philosophy ’ and culture . |
| 17 | It creaked as it swung open . |
| 18 | Nigel : ‘ It beats as it sweeps as it plugs up the hole in the ozone layer ? ’ |
| 19 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 20 | And it stopped when it hit something . |
| 21 | It counts because it counts to them . |
| 22 | Your body is supplied with the oxygen it needs when it needs it to burn in its fuel mixture . |
| 23 | It stands as it has always stood , |
| 24 | He 'd forgotten about the way it flickered before it came on properly and made a noise . |
| 25 | The Uprising destroyed this normality , and one must ask why it occurred , and why it occurred when it did , twenty years after the territories fell under Israeli rule . |
| 26 | It looks like it dun n it ? |
| 27 | ‘ I need that cash for a deposit on my new place , but it looks like it 's gone for good now . ’ |
| 28 | I think it 's cos , it looks like it 's made out of cardboard . |
| 29 | So I was wanting to mention why it looks like it 's happened just now . |
| 30 | Well it 's , it looks like it 's been cooking . |