Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as M. Dupin stresses more than once in his book , all types of genuine Gruyère cheese should be cut into little pieces for cooking , never on any account grated , a procedure which causes it to form sticky masses rather than the long creamy threads which constitute one of its essential characteristics — a characteristic considered especially important when it comes to the soupe au fromage of the eastern French provinces , that same soup which , transmogrified into the onion soup of the Paris all-night bistros , has now found its way into packets labelled la soupe au fromage instantanée . |
| 2 | Even with this kind of evidence , even with that kind of evidence , almost uniquely good evidence in my experience , the Council leadership , which is in , has been in possession of it for the best part of a month has made no move to suspend any Chief Officer on charges of gross misconduct , which of course if it had been any of our members accused of something like that , they 'd have been down the road instantly , nor has it reinstated any worker wrongly sacked . |
| 3 | Has it has it happened other times as well or |
| 4 | Sunnyvale , California-based MasPar Computer Corp wants us to know it shipped 13 MP-2 massively parallel machines in 1992 , calling it a ‘ faster-than-projected start-up ’ for a box introduced in October 1992 . |
| 5 | Oh , I hope it lifts this fog today and we have a bit of sun . |
| 6 | That Act One marriage scene — I do n't think I 've ever seen it played that way before , as a comedy number . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Have n't you thought it costs three pound bloody sixty a prescription ? |
| 10 | At 770p , Sherwood is now valued at £158.8 million compared with the £10.8 million launch price tag it had six years ago . |
| 11 | To allow it to get established robin temporarily tied it in place with fishing line . |
| 12 | The marriage game was played for the highest stakes by kings and emperors and counts ; there is no reason to suppose it reached these proportions elsewhere in the social scale . |
| 13 | Must be the leaves I think because I do n't think it flowers this shrub here . |
| 14 | I 've never heard it described that way before but there you go er |
| 15 | She drank automatically when It was over , noticed only when her glass was empty and did n't let it stay that way long . |
| 16 | If Euclidean space-time stretches back to infinite imaginary time , or else starts at a singularity in imaginary time , we have the same problem as in the classical theory of specifying the initial state of the universe : God may know how the universe began , but we can not give any particular reason for thinking it began one way rather than another . |
| 17 | We had it built two years ago . |
| 18 | ‘ Had it come five minutes earlier , ’ he said when he heard the news , ‘ I might have been saved . |
| 19 | trying to make it balance all afternoon so I had to start it yesterday to make it balance . |
| 20 | Says the star : ‘ They did n't bat an eyelid when I told them I wanted it delivered 5,000 miles away in London . |