Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should it stay young while I grow old ? |
| 2 | The church 's spokesman , Bishop Joseph Duffy , said : ‘ We feel obliged to state that the wording proposed is basically flawed because it guarantees less than the total exclusion of deliberate abortion . ’ |
| 3 | And it got worse as the day wore on , especially since it began to rain . |
| 4 | And it got worse when I realised I did n't know where they were going for their lune de miel . |
| 5 | And we went to one temple and it got dark whilst we were there , it was called the Monkey Temple , and it 's just so many monkeys around , and they just are allowed to run wild , but by the time we got back to our bikes it was dark and we had to cycle back in the dark without any lights on these unlit , unmade roads and that was quite frightening really . |
| 6 | It got dark as thunder . |
| 7 | Erm , we carried on , er , it got better as it went on . |
| 8 | It got broken when I dropped everything last night . |
| 9 | She lay perfectly still , knowing that when the light , filmy shift settled over her body it revealed more than it hid . |
| 10 | It goes wider than just the position of individuals , important though that is . |
| 11 | ‘ It goes yellow if you keep it for too long and I do n't see how anyone can be expected to use fifty tablecloths even in a lifetime — not mucky-looking yellow ones . |
| 12 | But maybe it goes deeper than that . |
| 13 | But it goes deeper than that . |
| 14 | And if it goes more than that , I said , it can go , I said . |
| 15 | In the U K we seem to keep the equipment for twenty years and then complain if it goes wrong before we have to throw it away . |
| 16 | Because they 're geared to Marks and Spencers , now there 's the advert for them they work with , with mass production , that 's where it goes wrong because we 've lost our individuality and so I go to the Italians in order to get the sort of yarns they offer me , now they 're the sort of yarns they offer me . |
| 17 | The Rover 600 is the latest , newest model to come out od Cowley and it represents more than anything else the regeneration of the works . |
| 18 | But the rise of the PLO made the whole issue more dangerous and complex , partly because it became unclear whether the majority of people in the West Bank wanted either Jordan or the PLO back , and partly because Jordan 's East Bank population was 40 per cent Palestinian . |
| 19 | Mr Wilson added that he was still pursuing the wider issues of the case until it became apparent whether the case of Ian X was unique . |
| 20 | The information available through the payroll was : name man number payroll number ( hourly , weekly , monthly ) depot number birth date date of joining salary company division department marital status date left At a later date indicators were added for : membership of pension scheme savings scheme part-timers address job title It became apparent immediately that quite a lot could be done with a good program . |
| 21 | This would at best have been a major irritant for an embattled leader of the opposition But it became worse than that . |
| 22 | The minimum fell somewhere between maternal ages 20 and 35 years and , from the minimum , the proportion of still births increased again towards older maternal age where , in most samples , it became higher than at the younger end of the maternal age scale . |
| 23 | It became redundant after the Public Record Office was completed in 1858 , to Pennethorne 's designs , as a central repository for all government archives . |
| 24 | It became visible when Jack flew directly above it , and then only hills could be seen . |
| 25 | Its essence stayed the same but now there was something new in its texture , and it became clearer as it approached . |
| 26 | I mean it was cursory , it became cursory when I saw the bloody pile of stuff that I 'd got to read , and I thought , ‘ Well I 'll you know we 'll skip that and I 'll just say what a wonderful lot you are for doing so much . ’ |
| 27 | It became more than a family home but a working farm and , they hoped , an inspirational headquarters for their international design empire . |
| 28 | Because it is ground offensive in sand , you want to be able to see that if you 're being shot , we could n't we could n't do that , and it became questionable whether we were actually going to be able to see the ground or not , so we called it aboard . |
| 29 | If the atmosphere at Sandringham was uncomfortable , at Park House it became unbearable as Diana 's little world fell apart at the seams . |
| 30 | The strap is a strong rubber one but I found I had to overtighten it at the surface , otherwise it became loose when my drysuit seal compressed at depth . |