Example sentences of "it [vb infin] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's like erm an it 's like it make it fancy and it goes |
| 2 | As he drew near they heard the sickening crack of the rod striking flesh ; once , twice they heard it fall but it brought no anguished shout of pain in response . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | How would it know that it had to lose weight ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Will it matter if it does not ? |
| 7 | What did it matter if it stopped her from sleeping ? |
| 8 | What does it matter if it implies something that is n't quite true ? |
| 9 | Why did it occur when it did ? |
| 10 | As a matter of fact I heard it stop when it reached the house . ’ |
| 11 | again but but how long does it take before it does happen again ? |
| 12 | She supposed wearily that she should be hoping this last thing would still happen , should be making it happen if it did n't happen on its own , but she knew that however hopeless this love for him was , it was the most precious and valuable thing she had ever experienced . |
| 13 | It was too big a puzzle and she let it go although it gnawed away at the back of her mind . |
| 14 | " Let it snow till it reaches the chimney-pots , " he says to himself . |
| 15 | What does it mean when it says it is the last time . |
| 16 | What does it mean when it says you know all things . |
| 17 | I could swear I saw it sizzle as it ate through the varnish . |
| 18 | He coughed and spat some phlegm into the fire , hearing it sizzle as it hit the coals . |
| 19 | Let it sit if it wanted to . |
| 20 | Increasing distance made it shrink as it rose , until at an unimaginable height it was not larger to her eye than a small bird . |
| 21 | ‘ Did it say if it got everything sorted out ? |