Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film . |
| 2 | The UN has said it has strong evidence Iraq is hiding about 100 of the Scud missiles of the type it fired at Israel and Saudi Arabia in the Gulf war , but Iraq denies it . |
| 3 | Since founding the chain in 1988 he has expanded it to include 17 concessions in Debenhams department stores and 20 high street shops . |
| 4 | The frequency of such bids has made it seem that stockmarket valuations are arbitrary , that bidders are stealing money from somebody else rather than creating wealth , and that American and British managers spend too much time shuffling assets and too little investing ( that is , building factories ) for the future . |
| 5 | DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap . |
| 6 | DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap . |
| 7 | In Manchester the handover has allowed it to offload heavy costs such as bridge maintenance , while in Sheffield the running of the tram system into British Midland 's station has turned it into a major transport terminus , which includes buses . |
| 8 | Yet the Government 's stewardship of the Tate has allowed it to add one picture last year . |
| 9 | The cooperation of the Austrian government has allowed it to garner political capital to help promote Austria 's bid to join the EC . |
| 10 | It was the first time South Africa has admitted it possessed nuclear weapons , though the United States government suggested as long ago as 1979 that Pretoria might possess an atom bomb after a satellite detected two nuclear-like flashes over Antarctic waters to the south of Cape Town . |
| 11 | Yes it might I 've seen it spelt both ways . |
| 12 | Perhaps the court would have accepted it had that stipulation been explicit . |
| 13 | It seems that this change is based on advice received from the Royal Society of Chemistry , though it has not been applied in the latest issue of Chemistry in Britain , neither can I recollect having seen it mention any possibility of change . |
| 14 | At the thought that I could ever have imagined it had any value . |
| 15 | Also , although he would have denied it had any influence at all , Ketura had told him Jeopardy used that court , and that he always practised early . |
| 16 | He says he would have liked it to continue this way . |
| 17 | Lord Hewart C.J. would have chosen it seems reasonable man and reasonable suspicion , while Lord Denning M.R. chooses reasonable man and likelihood . |
| 18 | It would have been more helpful , perhaps , to have had it put another way , for example , that humans are the only mammalian group where the rhythms of the female are systematically overridden by the male . |
| 19 | I 've seen it done last week , . |
| 20 | He always did it for a while and then just let it ride to see what happened , but all of a sudden ( it 's amazing — I 've seen it happen several times ) he gets out of bed one morning and says , ‘ Right , I 'm going to do something about it — it 's not moving fast enough for me ’ . |
| 21 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
| 22 | about , no , no it 's only about a fortnight ago , I was on site doing a job and I come out and as far as you know what you call courtesy dial in a card , so that you do n't cut anybody off , you can dial it and everybody says oh what 's going off , you know , you can courtesy dial it , when we 've finished it shuts that channel down |
| 23 | And in another case , decided in the same year , the Court of Appeal held that a mistress was entitled to a beneficial interest in the house she had shared with her lover even though he had left it to marry another woman . |
| 24 | Vern had jammed it shut last night . |
| 25 | ‘ I have written it using medical terms and layman 's terms in brackets so people will be able to understand it . |
| 26 | Thus a crack two microns deep has twice the surface energy of a crack one micron deep but as we have seen it releases four times as much strain energy . |
| 27 | My final point , is that , and we have had it raised this morning , erm from er I think it was consultants on behalf of the C P R E that there was sufficient capacity within Greater York , and they referred to a table in their and their submission . |
| 28 | Worships if I may interrupt the the this erm dispute about the damage which was allegedly caused I have mentioned it to Miss this morning and she has undertaken to make further enquiries . |
| 29 | I have mentioned it to Miss this morning and she has undertaken to make further enquiries . |