Example sentences of "it [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | He kind of looked at me quizzically and he had either not heard it or it had n't made any impact on him … and he basically just kind of waved it off . ’ |
2 | One point , just to add to what Liz is saying , and I support everything she 's said , one further point is that accuracy is terribly important because if you actually have a mistake in the press release , and the editors publish it or it 's broadcast and a whole lot of listeners or readers write in and complain , they 'll find it very hard to forgive you because they get themselves in a terrible problem , so do be sure you 're giving them accurate information all the time . |
3 | He suddenly captured her hand and placed it where it had been before , over the steady beat of his heart . |
4 | I sat cross-legged just by the blaze , staring into it from up-wind until it was out and only the metal of the Black Destroyer remained , then I took the sooty skeleton and buried it where it had been ruined , at the bottom of the hill . |
5 | yeah one of Andy 's cases this morning I had to do it where it had growth old cash on it , which it should n't have had so it was quite handy . |
6 | As usual , rainwater fills up the aquifer and water flows out from it where it meets the surface . |
7 | I caught it with the catapult , the thick black tubing of the rubber twisting once in the air as I scissored my hands and fell back , letting the buck go over my head and then kicking with my legs and turning myself so that I was level with it where it lay , kicking and struggling with the power of a wolverine , spreadeagled on the sand slope with its neck caught in the black rubber . |
8 | Put it where it gets as much sun as possible . |
9 | The taxation needs , it 's not just V A T it varies in the European Community , it where it varies in a wider Europe and the world at a whole . |
10 | Longings that led it where it went |
11 | I hope today we can get rid of this issue we can put it where it belongs in the House Of Commons , we can get rid of it and make sure that Leicestershire helps that and I am still willing to talk to the hunt . |
12 | The simplest way to feed grass is to allow livestock to eat it where it grows , green and fresh . |
13 | Removal of this national vulnerability and dependence on other nations became the prime aim , and so compelling an aim was it that it came to be achieved by fair means or foul . |
14 | ‘ Or is it that it does n't seem long ? he continued bitterly , knowing the futility of carping , but being unable to stop it . |
15 | Environment is the soil and water that permits it to sprout and grow , or sees to it that it does n't . |
16 | I used to have a file , but I found that , as with so many files one opens , I was putting so much in it that it ceased to be useful . |
17 | She could tell by the feel of it that it had some papers inside , but she did not look at them . |
18 | How was it that it had taken him so long to see Parry 's daughter thus clearly ? |
19 | The council grew so tired of lorries cutting this corner short and hitting the casement of the listed building next to it that it had to build a specially high kerb . |
20 | What else is it that it tells ya ? |
21 | Originally a Roman colony , legend has it that it takes its name from the first lord of its castle Rufus , Marquis of Obertenghi , who had thick red hair , or , perhaps more romantically , that it is named after the sunset hues which turn the mountain here from a gentle rose to red each evening . |
22 | So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway . |
23 | A property tax is essentially unfair unless so many qualifications are built into it that it becomes complicated and expensive to administer . |
24 | Ah well it 's definitely , it 's sounds like a , if it 's doing it that it sounds like an inflammation on the nerves right enough . |
25 | Educational technology is a theory and a set of hypotheses ; it is a habit of mind , and a readily applicable methodology ; it is far too early to claim for it that it has a large body of accepted practice . |
26 | But so many people , in many countries , are now working in it that it has entered a new phase . |
27 | But what sort of porn is it that it has to be brought all the way from the US of A ? |
28 | The problem in this case however is : What is it that it comes after ? |
29 | Now all the others are telling it that it 's got to be the one to welcome the Ship . ’ |
30 | That 's why we came out with it 'cause it reflected what we liked at the time . ’ |