Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [subord] " 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 | A crumb of chocolate stuck to her lip , where Coffin watched it slowly melt as he spoke to her . |
| 5 | It effectively ended when a new Legislative Assembly was formed following the November state elections . |
| 6 | Circular shafts were dug down to the seams and coal was then dug away from the sides until the pit was in danger of collapsing , which it eventually did after the pit had been abandoned . |
| 7 | Through binoculars I could tell that it was part of an animal , and I could see it gently moving as it breathed . |
| 8 | Tracks include It Only Hurts When It 's Love , Baby I 'm In Heaven and How Can I Say Goodbye ? |
| 9 | ‘ It only hurts when I laugh , ’ she said . |
| 10 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 11 | Yeah it only clicked as you 'd gone , when I had to do it . |
| 12 | it only happens since we put clocks forward . |
| 13 | Following this move of the ducal seat the palazzo fell into disuse and disrepair , a state from which it only recovered when the Spanish governors took it over many years later . |
| 14 | The pattern evident in Figure 4.6 is then not a general one , instead it only emerges when the analysis is done within exemplars of each junction separately . |
| 15 | Based on the shape of this receptive field , they then search for the stimulus that gives the best response from it , and in Figure 7 you see that one particular cell responded best to movement of a bar oriented at a particular angle , and also that it only responded when this bar moved in one direction . |
| 16 | As this approach is a tough , personal , confrontational one it only works when both parties have something to gain or lose . |
| 17 | The problem is that it only works if your PC has a fax card and is set up as a fax machine . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The trouble was , it only spoke when it felt like it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | It only stops when some more chemicals arrive from the chemist . |
| 25 | It only worked if she could be brought to the surrendering pitch of exhausted or ecstatic release . |
| 26 | It only worked when he was stationary , but that was often . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ( 7 ) Proceedings relating to matters mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) above , including voting in connection therewith , shall be held in public , but a licensing board may retire to consider its decision in any such matter and the clerk of the board shall accompany the board when it so retires unless the board otherwise directs . |
| 29 | It so happened if he got paid anyway ! |
| 30 | and I , I told him I was n't stupid enough to keep money in the house as an ex er as an ex lawyer and erm , where , er it so happened as I say that I talked to he , he did n't take any thing in fact at the end he apologise for having chosen the wrong house and he |