Example sentences of "it [verb] [subord] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | It creaked as it swung open . |
| 6 | Nigel : ‘ It beats as it sweeps as it plugs up the hole in the ozone layer ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | And it stopped when it hit something . |
| 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 | He 'd forgotten about the way it flickered before it came on properly and made a noise . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It looks like it dun n it ? |
| 15 | ‘ I need that cash for a deposit on my new place , but it looks like it 's gone for good now . ’ |
| 16 | I think it 's cos , it looks like it 's made out of cardboard . |
| 17 | So I was wanting to mention why it looks like it 's happened just now . |
| 18 | Well it 's , it looks like it 's been cooking . |
| 19 | It looks like it 's been on the M twenty five on a Friday night , and every tyre 's been over it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 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 | Cap Gemini Sogeti SA said yesterday that it was making the offer for the remaining 28.8% of London W-based software and computer services company Hoskyns Group Plc as it promised when it bought its majority stake from GEC Siemens Plc . |
| 23 | It matters because it means that a trust can be construed even from words which look rather unpromising . |
| 24 | Yet a business has no ‘ score ’ to play by except the score it writes as it plays . |
| 25 | I probably could , it depends if it 's got real orange in cos when I went to work at Lockwoods at Lymestock |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | So it depends when it occurs . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Will it matter if it does not ? |
| 30 | What did it matter if it stopped her from sleeping ? |