Example sentences of "it [verb] it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success . |
2 | Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies . |
3 | erm It keeps it going that way because you know , six games unbeaten , it 's nice , it 's nice to be unbeaten , but we just have n't won enough have we ? |
4 | As it vapourises it releases white smoke — beryllium oxide . |
5 | ‘ It must have been obvious that we were n't going to let it slip it seemed that way to me , ’ said Morrissey . |