Example sentences of "it [verb] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you use a videocassette recorder with this facility , check it to see if it has a socket you can plug a microphone into . |
| 2 | If you use too high a concentration , it irritates and it stains even more than the dilute stuff does . |
| 3 | In being normative it avows that it does not necessarily conform to everyone 's notion of authority in all detail . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well it 's like erm an it 's like it make it fancy and it goes |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nigel : ‘ It beats as it sweeps as it plugs up the hole in the ozone layer ? ’ |
| 9 | It counts because it counts to them . |
| 10 | Your body is supplied with the oxygen it needs when it needs it to burn in its fuel mixture . |
| 11 | It stands as it has always stood , |
| 12 | It looks like it dun n it ? |
| 13 | ‘ I need that cash for a deposit on my new place , but it looks like it 's gone for good now . ’ |
| 14 | I think it 's cos , it looks like it 's made out of cardboard . |
| 15 | So I was wanting to mention why it looks like it 's happened just now . |
| 16 | Well it 's , it looks like it 's been cooking . |
| 17 | It looks like it 's been on the M twenty five on a Friday night , and every tyre 's been over it . |
| 18 | You look at a mail box in the United States and it looks like it 's been abandoned , just barely bolted to the ground any more . |
| 19 | And it has And it has has it not been admitted in at least one of your background documents that the character of the settlements round York have a part to play in that ? |
| 20 | Between disquisitions on Chinese opera and Venetian architecture , the story of Marco Polo 's voyage from Venice to Peking is more or less retold , though the narrative is continually being brought to a halt in moments when it half-realises that it does not mean enough . |
| 21 | So we say ‘ Of course the cat believes the ball is stuck — it is conscious , its eyes work , why else would it behave as it does ? ’ but disallow that it might have the belief ‘ that it believes the ball is stuck ’ , this being linguistic ( Kenny 1975 : 5 ) . |
| 22 | It 's got two chances either it lives or it dies , and it started to grow like mad . |
| 23 | It matters because it means that a trust can be construed even from words which look rather unpromising . |
| 24 | inflation is the biggest economic problem and what problem it causes and it says discuss the fact that erm with inflation now being around four to five per cent it is now a , it is now being cured , discuss that sort of thing , you say yes it has , but at the moment we 're still suffering the effects because we are in , we 've got high interest rates , we , and in order for us to have really beaten it , we could have low interest rates and low employment and low inflation , but we 're still in the middle of it |
| 25 | Yet a business has no ‘ score ’ to play by except the score it writes as it plays . |
| 26 | It adds that it expects to quote eps on both a pre-exceptional and a post-extraordinary basis . |
| 27 | I probably could , it depends if it 's got real orange in cos when I went to work at Lockwoods at Lymestock |
| 28 | Er , for some purposes er other groups are excepted as as part of the Romany , for all the purposes they 're not , but then they said , it depends if it serves their interest to say we 're the true gypsies and they 're not |
| 29 | So it depends when it occurs . |
| 30 | It does not make any appreciable difference whether the solid is glassy or crystalline or even polymeric , nor does it matter whether it has a high or a low Young 's modulus 50 long as it more or less obeys Hooke 's law , virtually up to failure . |