Example sentences of "it [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 yeah , the , that 's the awful part I tried one of them with a big bit here and I tried it on and it looked like a tit on a pimple , I said god what am I gon na do ?
2 So I threw the I put some thirty , thirty six on my hand , I put it on and it went hard
3 I tried it on and it fitted well enough .
4 You turn it on and it tapes people singing or talking .
5 He says well I 'm not paying you for it , he says you put it on and it do n't work , he says well we want it back , he says well you take it back and put my parts on that you took off , he says we ca n't , he says well I 'm not paying you hundred and forty pound for a part that do n't work and he says , anyway he says er , are you sure it 's a hundred and forty pound he said , an oil filter cost ten pound at some places but they 're actually only two so if you di divide it by five that 's forty pounds , he says I 'll pay you forty pound , but I 'm not paying you no hundred and forty he said .
6 At last , wonder of wonders it was finished for the second time , I tried it on and it drowned me .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 I ENJOYED it most because it made me laugh so much .
10 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 . ’
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Just write it all as it happens .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 and put it so that it goes over your feet
20 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 .
21 The fire dropped all round it so that it disappeared in the rolling orange and curling black .
22 But he 's got it so that it hurts .
23 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 .
24 Leaning forward , he took her hand , smiling , and turned it so that it lay , the back upwards , in his strong square hand .
25 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 .
26 And you can just pull it so that it flattens .
27 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 .
28 and pull it so that it tucks underneath .
29 ‘ If you pin it so that it hangs down , people will catch their hair in it , ’ she was saying .
30 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 .
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