Example sentences of "it [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furious , Wilson went down into the freezing kitchen , where the well banked-up fire had not quite died down , and poked it vigorously until it began to burn up . |
| 2 | The reason HP is rated ‘ difficult to arrange ’ by more people than other credit types is not that people think it would be more difficult to arrange , but that people generally were quicker to apply any comments to it presumably because it has a more prominent image for them . |
| 3 | I ENJOYED it most because it made me laugh so much . |
| 4 | The atmosphere has to find it somewhere so it goes after the molecules locked in the glazes and that 's when the real magic happens . ’ |
| 5 | because er I mean you put anything hot down on that and e the tip is if you put anything down hot , you take a rag and a a saucer with some raw linseed oil and you heat the rag and you rub it gently and it brings sometimes you know the the the white marks . |
| 6 | What they do not see , of course , are the tears at the sheer frustration of it all when it hits home at two in the morning . |
| 7 | Just write it all as it happens . |
| 8 | If the trouble has started and does not look like stopping , the best solution is to provide an immaculately clean tray of fresh litter , place it in a quiet corner , and then shut the animal up in that particular room , releasing it only when it has used the tray in the approved manner . |
| 9 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 10 | She had washed and curled her silvery hair and left it long , brushing it so that it hung over one shoulder in a silky-pale swath , a style she never favoured . |
| 11 | There are two things we can do with hair on the upper lip , we can either bleach it so that it does n't notice , or we can actually remove it with wax , or we can have electrolysis . |
| 12 | Some may contain adulterants to enhance the aroma or to extend it so that it goes further ; others may contain pesticide residues or traces of chemical solvent from the extraction process . |
| 13 | and put it so that it goes over your feet |
| 14 | Using our discussion in this chapter , edit it so that it conforms more to what you now understand to be conventions of an appropriate literary-critical style . |
| 15 | The fire dropped all round it so that it disappeared in the rolling orange and curling black . |
| 16 | But he 's got it so that it hurts . |
| 17 | The female releases them by reaching forward with her hind leg , inserting her longest toe into the sac entrance and pulling it so that it enlarges and her young are able to clamber out . |
| 18 | Leaning forward , he took her hand , smiling , and turned it so that it lay , the back upwards , in his strong square hand . |
| 19 | She would redesign the apartment , transform it so that it became a proper home , a space where friends could come , a place for gatherings , a home like the Princesse 's which always hummed . |
| 20 | And you can just pull it so that it flattens . |
| 21 | Donaldson turned and saw that Bobo had her arm through the bars , prodding at the basin with a straw and rocking it so that it came close to spilling its contents within her reach . |
| 22 | and pull it so that it tucks underneath . |
| 23 | ‘ If you pin it so that it hangs down , people will catch their hair in it , ’ she was saying . |
| 24 | It walks on only five of its legs and holds the sixth out stiffly behind it so that it appears to have a sting projecting from the tip of its abdomen . |
| 25 | When a search is completed up to twelve small images will be displayed on the lower area of the screen , you can then choose the one you want and enlarge it so that it appears on the screen together with any relevant background information . |
| 26 | The vast red sail burst free of its lashings , the wind filling it so that it bowed forward in a great scarlet curve on which was painted in brilliant gold the portrait of the Golden Girl herself , bubble-curled , lips pouting — Marilyn Monroe . |
| 27 | It is to have failed to give the transcendence of God its proper cash value , to have weakened it so that it means something like ‘ outside the solar system ’ or ‘ above the galaxy ’ . |
| 28 | But how to word it so that it did n't sound like the rambling of a wild man ? |
| 29 | He granted an injunction restraining the defendant from using and/or disclosing confidential information but qualified it so that it did not apply to communications made by the defendant either to FIMBRA or the Inland Revenue in respect of the matters identified in the defence . |
| 30 | We positioned it so that it faced away from the doorway , to avoid draughts and to give the future inhabitants a little privacy . |