Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On termination , the Seller may exercise any of the following rights , either alone , or in any combination : ( i ) dispose of the goods as it thinks fit ; ( ii ) retain any deposit or part payment made by the Buyer ; ( iii ) recover damages from the Buyer in respect of any losses it suffers as a result of the Buyer 's failure to take delivery , including , but not limited to , the profit it would have made had the buyer performed its obligations , the costs of storage of the goods and the costs of disposing of the goods . |
| 2 | Yeah I was thinking wonderful , your bedroom it looks like a palace your bedroom , . |
| 3 | As a result it slipped into a loss of £1.33m in 1988 against a £1.71m taxable profit in 1987 . |
| 4 | Although the overall number of night visits increased sharply in the first year after the introduction of the contract ( for example , in Berkshire it rose by a half over the previous year p 762 ) , the absolute number of night visits made by the deputising service may have altered much less , without much cost saving . |
| 5 | As the sun strikes their heads it plays for a while , scatters silver seed and dances away again , unnoticed . |
| 6 | The funds it recovers as a result will be re-invested in reseller support , research and development and further anti-piracy measures . |
| 7 | From the sideline it looked like a rottweiler up against a chihuahua . |
| 8 | Now , when p of the individuals are hawks , an individual receives the pay-off it expects against a hawk p times , and the pay-off it expects against a dove ( 1 - p ) times . |
| 9 | Now , when p of the individuals are hawks , an individual receives the pay-off it expects against a hawk p times , and the pay-off it expects against a dove ( 1 - p ) times . |
| 10 | Where it licked the Wizards ' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth colour , octarine ; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions ; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness ; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God . |
| 11 | And because it has open server in front of it from the client 's side it looks like a server , so any of those two hundred clients or any of front end tools can have access to the email system as if it was a resource or server . |
| 12 | Patrick is still having difficulties with girls : the married man keeps going to bed with them , not liking it very much and not liking the distress it brings to a wife whom he does like and who is carefully crafted to be likeable . |
| 13 | A SUSSEX businessman is threatening to sue National Westminster Bank over a reference it provided about a company that collapsed within four weeks of him supplying games worth more than £7,000 . |
| 14 | The tree was decorated with lights by and his team of engineers , and was such a spectacle it resulted in a letter in the local paper from Santa Claus himself , thanking us for putting it up . |
| 15 | As recently as last December it pencilled in a figure of 1.9% . |
| 16 | Thus today French media subscribers pay relatively little for a ‘ French-made ’ service of national and international news : the French press gets a major news-service cheap ( despite its protests to the contrary ) , and in exchange it serves as a guarantee of the independence of the agency . |
| 17 | Otherwise the War Wagon is moved as indicated and if it collides with troops it comes to a halt and a round of hand-to-hand combat follows just as if the War Wagon had charged . |
| 18 | To prevent starvation on more plebeian trains , passengers had to take all their food with them or leap from the train the moment it drew into a station and rush for the buffet . |
| 19 | This was established in 1939 by some of those involved in the Moot , and under the editorship of Oldham it consisted of a number of editorials combined with a long signed article from writers like Reinhold Niebuhr , Karl Barth and Dorothy L. Sayers . |
| 20 | From the outside it looked like a bank ( and with good reason , if Wayne was to be believed : ‘ That guy , ’ Wayne said , ‘ he 's raking it in ’ ) . |
| 21 | Despite the pain and distress of his illness he said recently : ‘ I know from the outside it looks like a blow but from my view things are different . |
| 22 | Gooch was the leading run-scorer in first-class cricket for the 1980s , with over 21,000 at 49 , and in view of this his Test record -4,724 runs at just under 37 from 73 Tests before the tour began — is something of a disappointment , and illustrates clearly the difference it makes to a player to belong to a successful side . |
| 23 | It was very little money really , but to me in those days it seemed like a lot . |
| 24 | UNRWA remained permanently compromised with the refugee population it served as a result of these resettlement efforts . |
| 25 | Only 1 man in 5 had planned the occasion , for 17% it was a one-night stand , for 13% it happened at a party , while 11% say they were drunk at the time . |
| 26 | Yngwie then told me how he created the orchestra on ‘ Fire And Ice ’ : ‘ We had two violins , a viola , a cello and a contrabass and we overdubbed that quartet four times , so on record it sounds like a chamber orchestra rather than just a quartet . |
| 27 | In this case , exactly as one would expect , the adjective is acceptable in predicative position but only on condition that it bears the meaning it has as a non-separative . |
| 28 | The profits of a manufacturing company are achieved by selling the goods it makes at a price in excess of its costs . |
| 29 | At 0° the circle is seen edge on , as a straight line ; at 90° it registers as a circle . |
| 30 | For a while it looked like a possibility for national attention . |