Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It was urged into the air again , kicking out with its back legs , seeming to hang there motionless , and then on hind legs it walked several steps forwards .
2 After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen .
3 Perhaps they will one day , but at the moment it seems some way off .
4 From the outside it looks uninhabited facing on to the icy , wind-ravaged sidewalks as anonymously as any of the disused warehouse and industrial buildings that litter the once-thriving district .
5 By the time it is four days old , it is as heavy as one of its parents ; after three weeks it weighs four times as much as they do , and dwarfs them both .
6 While amateur gardeners in the UK have kept many old apple varieties alive , the US has lost forever most of the apples it had 100 years ago .
7 Simply ideal for families it has direct access on to the beach and offers a wide range of holiday activities for children .
8 He said oh I do n't mind cleaning he said but , he 's like Derek , I mean I , ooh I can soon clean well he 's a good , you know , cleaner I mean the bath , whenever he , blimey if ever he cleans the bath it looks ten times better than when I I do it .
9 But in an increasingly urbanized society it took new forms more apparent to political opinion and more threatening to life and industry ; and there were very many more large populous areas devoid of the most elementary arrangements for disposing of waste or supplying pure water .
10 At a superficial level it produces incompatible definitions so that , despite their having the word in common , Thompson and Anderson use ‘ class ’ in different ways .
11 Virgin 's determined to fight , on Thursday it began legal action here in the United States .
12 A property it acquired many years ago is carried at a valuation .
13 In cash terms that is exactly the same as the amount it received seven years ago .
14 ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago .
15 According to the Health and Safety Executive it costs British Industry more than £2 billion a year in absenteeism .
16 A letter erm from New Baysford it says Two weeks ago my car was nicked in Illkeston in the Pimlico car park between the hours of two and five whilst shopping .
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