Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magee paid it little heed as he continued his nocturnal stroll , looking around him constantly , occasionally slowing down to look over his shoulder or perhaps changing direction quickly , ducking into a group of people . |
| 2 | This , however , is hardly the case , for it rather involves if anything a more active critique of the Eurocentric premises of Western knowledge . |
| 3 | It rather looked like Her Maj quite liked Neil Kinnock . |
| 4 | The NZRFU rather prides itself on its official-player liaison , of treating its players handsomely , and it rather hopes that they in turn would treat the NZRFU with courtesy , if not affection . |
| 5 | One thing is certain , that the last Lord Derwentwater , not long before his death , was frequently at Keswick , but according to Green it is not equally certain , that he then ( as is affirmed by some ) inhabited the house upon the island ; on the contrary , it rather seems that his being at Keswick , was only on visits from his family place at Dilston . |
| 6 | A crumb of chocolate stuck to her lip , where Coffin watched it slowly melt as he spoke to her . |
| 7 | It eventually got that they were typed and put into cellophane covers which made it a lot easier . |
| 8 | Through binoculars I could tell that it was part of an animal , and I could see it gently moving as it breathed . |
| 9 | He pressed it gently shut and it held ; loosely and with a slight gap , but it held . |
| 10 | ‘ It only hurts when I laugh , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Tracks include It Only Hurts When It 's Love , Baby I 'm In Heaven and How Can I Say Goodbye ? |
| 12 | Yeah it only clicked as you 'd gone , when I had to do it . |
| 13 | it only happens since we put clocks forward . |
| 14 | The problem is that it only works if your PC has a fax card and is set up as a fax machine . |
| 15 | It only works if you realise that your own extension number is going to be vacant at the time , if somebody 's using it then it wo n't work , alright , so if you try and transfer a call , then you must make sure that the extension number you 're accessing is free . |
| 16 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 17 | A drop of soap trickled into his eyes and he rubbed it only to find that he had created more pain . |
| 18 | Not only is it little consolation , he wrote , it is actually a further cause for despair , for it only shows that everything is far too late , that the glass was a dream of lateness and the work on the glass was a fantasy of lateness and the belief in the glass was the madness of one who has lost all sense of the meaning of lateness . |
| 19 | But for some it only lasts until they reach the office — 31% felt that their work was not taken care of properly while they were away . |
| 20 | The trouble was , it only spoke when it felt like it . |
| 21 | Can I make it quite crystal clear to my own mind , long term pension benefits it does n't come automatically it only comes if you surrender part of your own pension thus making provision for . |
| 22 | It only stops when it ( and you ! ) are crushed out of existence at the central point of the hole ( or a little earlier when the stretching and crushing forces wreck it ) . |
| 23 | It only worked if she could be brought to the surrendering pitch of exhausted or ecstatic release . |
| 24 | It only worked when he was stationary , but that was often . |
| 25 | She supposed it was magic , probably it only happened when you swung your head up in a certain way , she would test that tomorrow , and as she dropped asleep it lay alongside the tickets of paper with the numbers she had written , and the tar bubbles and the sun that made red horses and brown splotches when she closed her eyes . |
| 26 | The reader should not reject them outright if it so happens that they do not correspond to his own personal impressions . |
| 27 | But it so happens that we can compare the situation during the years 1070 to 1123 with a similar train of events at Canterbury just a hundred years later . |
| 28 | Now it so happens that we can make the same substitution of forms in an otherwise completely different sentence , producing an exactly parallel change of meaning : |
| 29 | Moreover we can discuss the meaning of what is being said even if it so happens that there are no trees in the park , or if all the trees happened to be the same age and none of them was an oak . |
| 30 | It so happens that I have an appointment with the PM this evening . |