Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he scrapes it closed , and comes back . |
| 2 | Has it froze the water to last night ? |
| 3 | Has it fell somewhere ? |
| 4 | Really really what has it got to do with our clients ? |
| 5 | The corpse is drawn suspended above the bier , the cloth that covers it suspended above again , and individual figures are similarly itemised . |
| 6 | We sailed down the reaches of the Thames and , standing in the bows , I saw the river through the eyes of Marlow in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , as a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea " . |
| 7 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 8 | He accepts it happened and he is appalled by it , ’ he said . |
| 9 | However , the longevity of the Republic , the material rewards it had provided to the German people and the fact that Eastern Europeans hoped to emulate West German success in future , suggested that Bonn would act to promote , not threaten , democracy across Europe in the 1990s . |
| 10 | Stewart Pearce Rozario wants it played in quickly . |
| 11 | Here 's Thomson Speedy wants it played into the area and get it . |
| 12 | The laibon wants it understood that it has taken him some time to trace the trouble back to this incident . |
| 13 | It 's a bit on t'spongy side , so Aah wants it finished afore t'rains come . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The Headmaster wants it moved along a little . |
| 15 | A voluntary ban is in operation , which most drivers observe — but not all , and the walking lobby wants it enforced . |
| 16 | And though his contract has been renegotiated , he wants it declared void and unenforceable . |
| 17 | The man who is so insensitive that he does n't realise what 's happening needs it spelt out to him . |
| 18 | To argue over the logic or truth of an idea in absolute terms is to explore the nature of belief itself , but for an historian of ideas what is most interesting is ‘ who held a particular belief at a particular time and what needs it fulfilled for them . |
| 19 | The techs froze with shock for the two heartbeats it took Mitchell to turn the old man 's gun on them . |
| 20 | As it happens it rained after lunch so the test match with Auntie was cancelled . |
| 21 | Philips Electronics NV says it sold 100,000 CD-I players in 1992 , but expects the market to mushroom in the next two years , with a doubling this year , and a trebling of that in 1994 — 600,000 in other words . |
| 22 | In face of spending cutbacks in the Japanese private sector , NEC Corp is trying to drum up business for its SX-3R supercomputers by cutting monthly rental rates on 10 models in the family by up to 38% : it says it sold only eight of the things last year , down from 14 in 1991 . |
| 23 | The government says it had nothing to do with the case . |
| 24 | IBM Personal Systems Business Unit Europe/Middle East/Africa says it had record volume of sales in the first quarter of this year , and points to Dataquest figures suggesting that it outshipped its nearest competitor by 66% during the last quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 — gaining 4% in market share over the previous six months ; the company also said it reorganised its manufacturing and distribution operations at its Greenock , Scotland , plant , cutting distribution costs for its ValuePoint and ThinkPad brands by more than 65% , cutting its inventory by 17% since the end of 1992 ; this magnitude of savings will also be realised for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines this year . |
| 25 | The company says it had planned to offer the capability in the middle of next year , but now says that users will be able to cluster OpenVMS VAX systems with OpenVMS AXP systems this spring . |
| 26 | DEC 's demonstration showed it running with 256Mb internal and 852Mb disk , and says it had it running with 4Gb external in the labs . |
| 27 | The R4000SMP iteration will feature new memory and bus modifications and integrated cache — the company says it had to alter previous MIPS ' R series parts to accommodate the cache . |
| 28 | The National Union of Mineworkers says it had expected the news but Trevor of the pit deputies ' union NACODS had this message for miners . |
| 29 | The council says it had no choice … jobs are being cut to help maintain services as they struggle to balance the budget . |
| 30 | The Department of Transport says it had hoped to complete the east-west route by the turn of the century , but that that 's now unlikely . |