Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through binoculars I could tell that it was part of an animal , and I could see it gently moving as it breathed . |
| 2 | He pressed it gently shut and it held ; loosely and with a slight gap , but it held . |
| 3 | Tracks include It Only Hurts When It 's Love , Baby I 'm In Heaven and How Can I Say Goodbye ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The trouble was , it only spoke when it felt like it . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | It so happened that it turned out a good thing that it did n't get posted , but that was just a lucky chance . |
| 8 | It so happened that it fell to the lot of Geoffrey Holton and Chris Protheroe to do the donkey work in the Lusaka accident , but it could have been any of the twenty or so investigators in AIB . |
| 9 | when you turn your key it suddenly clicks and it clicks the thingy forward |
| 10 | Sometimes I do n't seem real to myself , it suddenly seems that it is n't my reflection only a foot or two away . |
| 11 | Well it better have cos it 's right at the back of the kiln at the bottom and I do n't |
| 12 | The Labour party should be pleased about that , but , because those industries are its old power base , it naturally regrets that it no longer has trade union members coming from that source . |
| 13 | It merely indicates that it is the duty of ‘ every person responsible for public records … to make arrangements for the selection of those records which ought to be permanently preserved and for their safe-keeping ’ . |
| 14 | If the Union must have a security structure of its own , it necessarily follows that it has needs which are not covered by Nato and interests which go beyond the mutual defence guaranteed by the North Atlantic Treaty . |
| 15 | Does it necessarily follow that it will ? |
| 16 | it just depends when it stops weeping you see |
| 17 | to stop the rust , it just depends if it 's strong enough to hold them , the frame |
| 18 | Well it just depends if it 's market day she goes to market stays up till two or three in afternoon and then goes to sleep for six about six hours . |
| 19 | It just felt like it was an orfe day . |
| 20 | No it just says that it 's basically to the effect of that the answering machine is quite reliable |
| 21 | It just stayed where it was . |
| 22 | it just comes and it just hurt , it feels like it 's going click but it 's not going click . |
| 23 | do n't you go comma say your teacher , or somebody like that , so it just shows that it 's not a reference . |
| 24 | ooh and it just stank and it 's a bit greasy and |
| 25 | But that 's all it takes , it 's just the skin to get broken , and underneath the skin and it just spreads and it 's |
| 26 | For instance , a car manufacturer who wished to find out about UK attitudes towards diesel engines might research only those strata from which it already knows that it derives ( say ) 80% of its sales . |
| 27 | If we hoard money , it soon learns that it is not needed , and we no longer attract it . |
| 28 | They describe it in such a way that it finally appears as it is , that is to say intolerable . " |
| 29 | In no time at all the rib was ‘ tucking ’ — not on the main bed , as it usually does if it is going to have a fit of tucking , but this time on the ribber bed . |
| 30 | and it worked , and it got over to Australia , it got unpacked and it still worked when it got to Australia , and it went on the stand and it stood on the stand for a week or however long it was . |