Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hermit crab partly avoids this complicated and hazardous process by having a shell-less hinder part and protecting it with a discarded mollusc shell , switching into a new one in a minute or so whenever it has the need . |
| 2 | A year or so later it bought Ventura Software Inc , developer of the program , and later changed the name of the subsidiary to that of the acquisition . |
| 3 | Laughter is a marvellous preventative medicine whether you feel low or not always it does you good if you take yourself off to the nearest comedy film or show . |
| 4 | Scientists are still unable to tell us what it is or even how it works . |
| 5 | In this chapter I have made no attempt to discuss why it should be that the DES has found itself in the situation of promulgating these various initiatives , or indeed how it sees the relationship between them . |
| 6 | Lisa would never know how true that was — or how nearly it had come to blighting her life . |
| 7 | Right start from the beginning , if you 're happy and you know it and you really want to show it clap your hands , if you 're happy and you know it and really want to show stamp your feet or how ever it goes , go on then you do it . |
| 8 | Your donations mean we 'll always be there , no matter what the circumstances , or how long it takes . |
| 9 | She did n't know how time passed , or how long it took the wild shrill crying to fade back into the sky ; but at last there was just the sound of the rain and the wind . |
| 10 | I had n't the least idea where on the head was the best place to hit or how hard it had to be . |
| 11 | She would have given herself to a man for whom she was nothing but another short-term conquest , and in a year , or six months , or however long it took him to tire of her , she would have found herself alone again . |
| 12 | He holds it through a riveting performance of the Toccata , a sumptuously lyrical adagio ( although perhaps here it has more the air of an andante amabile ) and a gloriously ebullient Fugue . |
| 13 | What is serious about so much school work generally is that so frequently it seems to fail to have any deep effect on life outside the classroom . |
| 14 | The terrorist organisation has said that so far it has simply been ‘ unlucky ’ . |
| 15 | It switched the action from London to Australia , although somewhat surprisingly it did not involve a dingo or a randy member of the Neighbours cast : ‘ A man killed himself yesterday , minutes after disrupting a lingerie fashion show hosted by Australian model Elle Macpherson . |
| 16 | In the next chapter we consider events which are unexpected and which shock the couple into making a response ; for example , the discovery of an affair can destabilize a relationship to the point of breakdown , although more frequently it triggers a re-evaluation of the partnership and some heart-searching as to why it was necessary to draw attention to problems in the marriage in this way . |
| 17 | We know that up there it goes to nine thousand five hundred and along here it gets to ninety five thousand . |
| 18 | The head says the figures explain more about where a school is than how well it educates |
| 19 | I 'm not actually sure what model it is — I think it 's a 335 Dot — but I 've just been out and bought another one for a spare , and luckily enough it feels exactly the same . |
| 20 | Part of , part of the furniture , yes what do you want , there 's no problem with parcels , and so again it becomes far less difficult to discuss erm , a business conversation , and sometimes it 's a conversation about football , and they 're all a load of complete , because that 's part of , er , that 's one of the joys of er , er , having been doing something for long enough to have got known within the , within the patch . |
| 21 | The new understandings then become the basis for further activity — and so on it goes . |
| 22 | The new understandings then become the basis for further activity — and so on it goes . |
| 23 | While this is more than adequate for word processing and so on it does tend to be restrictive when considering A4 or even A3 pages . |
| 24 | Liley spent a season playing in the second team with just half a dozen first-team appearances before the opportunity came this season , and so far it has gone remarkably well . |
| 25 | ‘ Asterlite ’ is a ceramic-like material and so far it has only one major use — kitchen sinks . |
| 26 | Quality , premiums , yields and timeliness are what the grain harvest is all about and so far it looks as if the malting trade may turn out not too bad . |
| 27 | Volunteers at the centre have been videoing this pair of kingfishers and so far it looks as though the experiment is a success . |
| 28 | And they had a strap and they used to carry all the weight on their foreheads and on , and through their necks , and they used to climb , we went up to seventeen and a half thousand feet , and they climbed up with all these bags and they cooked for us and they got river water for us and sometimes they had to walk a kilometre to the river to go and get the water and then carry it back again er with the band around their heads and so initially it seemed quite difficult to accept them doing this for you , but for them it was a job and erm it was probably the only sort of job that they could get . |
| 29 | Why they did not use them in a manner that would almost certainly have sealed the fate of the French at Verdun seems to us almost incredible , and so indeed it seemed to contemporary German critics . |
| 30 | And so indeed it has done . |