Example sentences of "it [prep] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What did 'e buy it for if 'e did n't want it ? |
| 2 | And , cos we had a bit of a laugh about it , I do n't know what I 'm telling you about it for cos you hear him read anyway ! |
| 3 | But if you get a copy , save it for when you can read it at one sitting . |
| 4 | So keep it for the end and keep it for when you 've not only done all the questions but had a quick check through to see have |
| 5 | ‘ Save it for when I take you gambling in Las Vegas , ’ juggling this chance in his head with the unthinkable odds that he would never see her again . |
| 6 | As well as the P-trap , the three other common types are : the S-trap , which has an extra bend in it for when the final outlet is vertical rather than horizontal ; the running trap , a P-trap with horizontal inlet and outlet ; and the bottle trap which has a top entry and side outlet with a baffle inside to keep the bottle full . |
| 7 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
| 8 | If you do it for when you 've actually left home , when you , when you 've actual left at twenty past seven no |
| 9 | I do n't know , it looks as if it 's got some grit in it for when it gets icy I suppose you have to put he grit down there . |
| 10 | No I 'll keep it for when I have my money and I 'll go down to Cardiff and spend it the bloody lot . |
| 11 | So it does n't matter whether we look at it as whether you 'd get a third or whether you say you 'd get two sixths well it does n't matter cos it 's the same size it 's just it 's cut into two pieces or the way you wanted to do it which was a good way with the first pizza . |
| 12 | Well , it might be that we regard it as whether everybody else interprets it that way . |
| 13 | He smiles a lot , talks to himself and uses a tennis court like an officer patrolling it , owning it and thumping around it as if he has n't a care in the world . |
| 14 | My eyes were drawn to it as if the Officer had left part of himself here on the grass . |
| 15 | The way the poem is ordered allows us momentarily to read it as if the juxtaposition was just that of eye and Canaletto , for the eye appears at first as an independent entity . |
| 16 | It says the company 's marketing of Cisco is dangerously deceptive ; it induces unsuspecting teenagers to guzzle it as if it were a standard spritzer . |
| 17 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 18 | He received it as if it were a precious relic a saint had just blessed , and folded it carefully . |
| 19 | Then , reverting to his chosen , statesmanlike stance , he added : ‘ Anyway , we should not be talking about it as if it 's just bread and circuses . |
| 20 | El Capitan poked the baton hard into the small man 's stomach , doubling him , then raised it as if he was going to bring it down on his curled shoulder . |
| 21 | When the train reached Puno we left it as if on a military exercise . |
| 22 | He let his left hand dangle , inspecting it as if it were an alien object . |
| 23 | Occasionally when she was wearing this she had a trick of lifting it like wings , or ruffling it as if it was her real plumage , and she 'd declare : ‘ My dears , I am preparing for The Flight — into Egypt , to the islands , to the New World — who knows ! ’ |
| 24 | As E. R. Curtius has pointed out , the pious attitude of the Romans to their past and their tendency to regard it as if it were a part of the present signified a kind of timelessness that excluded a genuinely historical view of the world and was very different from our sense of temporal perspective . |
| 25 | Although the limb is three-dimensional I will treat it as if it were two-dimensional and only consider position with respect to two axes , the antero-posterior axis which runs across the limb from digit 2 to digit 4 , and the long , or proximo-distal axis , which runs from the shoulder to the tip of the digits . |
| 26 | For that last half-hour of the day , the dunes became a deeper gold and were scored with the long shadows of palm trees , whose tops were so green that I fancied that if my arm had been long enough I could have plucked a leaf and eaten it as if it had been parsley . |
| 27 | Her voice had a lilt to it as if she were on the verge of laughter . |
| 28 | He said it as if books were some terrible bore which everybody had to put up with but which were n't of the slightest use . |
| 29 | Right from the start , Dad told me never , ever , to go near it as if I fell in , I would most certainly drown . |
| 30 | Since this became a standard feature of trusts it is not helpful to treat it as if it were dependent solely on an especially close regard for the testator 's intention . |