Example sentences of "[verb] it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great cultural movement like the twelfth-century Renaissance can not be explained in simple terms : the influences and the inspiration which created it flowed through many channels , some of them deep beneath the ground . |
| 2 | The company had a prototype built and running , and employees say it ran at 51.2 GFLOPS peak — three times the performance of the best machine commercially available . |
| 3 | It seems unlikely that the dance was copied into the score at the wrong point : if it had been , one would expect to find it headed by some warning that it belonged several pages later — otherwise severe complications would result in orchestral parts copied from the score . |
| 4 | Unfortunately they were again delayed by rough terrain , and when they got to the road they found it choked with German armour heading for the front . |
| 5 | The anger obsessed her , but later she turned it on herself and found it mixed with shamed bewilderment . |
| 6 | They accept the goal of an enterprise economy , but want it tempered by social concerns , with a place for worker-ownership . |
| 7 | And he said well just get yourself home and tell your father that I want it paid for this time because I only replaced that glass last week , which he had |
| 8 | When you are back in the main square of the Malá Strana , imagine it encircled with medieval houses set above arcades . |
| 9 | It 's a it 's a grea it 's a great play , I 've seen it performed by other people and it 's a great evening . |
| 10 | Just a word about the Oxford goal ; I saw that , I saw erm Andy Melville score it , I was most surprised to hear it overruled at half time . |
| 11 | they , those people do n't like it altered in any way do they ? |
| 12 | The new state comprised the historic provinces of Bohemia and Moravia together with Slovakia which , until 1918 , had been part of Hungary , together with Ruthenia and a northern fringe of the Hungarian plain which , though it was Magyar-speaking , the new state claimed it needed on economic grounds . |
| 13 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 14 | He wedged the knife upright in the cutlery drawer while jamming it shut with one knee . |
| 15 | Wall Street is beginning to firm up its forecasts for IBM Corp 's first quarter figures , with the consensus at around 20 cents a share and the more bearish going for 50 cents — but if Technology News of America 's straw poll of the market around the US and Europe is anywhere near right , the loss is going to be a whole lot worse than that : the returns suggest that the company will have sold at best between 25 and 30 mainframes this quarter , where the Wall Street forecasts assume it did nearer 50 machines . |
| 16 | Wall Street is beginning to firm up its forecasts for IBM Corp 's first quarter figures , with the consensus at around 20 cents a share and the more bearish going for 50 cents — but if Technology News of America 's straw poll of the market around the US and Europe is anywhere near right , the loss is going to be a whole lot worse than that : the returns suggest that the company will have sold at best between 25 and 30 mainframes this quarter , where the Wall Street forecasts assume it did nearer 50 machines . |
| 17 | When we first drank claret we heard it called by that name , we were eating such and such a dinner etc . |
| 18 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not saying it happened on this occasion , but it is not unknown for a private company to take a loss on government contracts to get a foot in the door . ’ |
| 20 | It was their deep love for the Llŷn landscape , and a desire to keep it protected for future generations , which prompted the three Keating sisters , Honora , Lorna and Eileen , and their eighty-year-old mother to buy Plas-yn-Rhiw and its fifty-eight acres in 1939 ; later they purchased over 300 acres more with the express purpose of giving the land to the trust . |
| 21 | In 1.1 , for example , we showed a sequence of instructions to add one to the operand field of an " add " instruction , so that when executed it referred to successive locations in store . |
| 22 | The slam of the door and its subsequent splitting as the axe hit it merged into one sound . |
| 23 | Fine lime trees formed a natural avenue for the approach ; copper beeches and great elms gave shelter from the wind in the east ; should the river flood , as he 'd observed it did after heavy rain , the house was safe upon its hill . |
| 24 | The picaresque vitality of Richardson 's novel begins to wane early in the third volume ( a frequent fate of follow-ups ) and , as a theatre audience does not have the opportunity to plough through stodgy bits in their own time , we felt it made for better drama to kill Pamela ( in the novel she comes near to death ) before the dramatic conflict itself dies . |
| 25 | She knew it came from far back , because she felt so tiny on the rug , looking up at huge shapes . |
| 26 | He 'd never done it before but thought it sounded like harmless fun . |
| 27 | , I thought it came on seven disks not six . |
| 28 | On the way back across the lake I dragged my ankle in the cold water and back at camp kept it elevated with cold cloths , then Kaz wrapped it in an ice bandage . |
| 29 | So nobody could I kept that shop , I paid the rent on the shop for twelve months , I kept it closed for twelve months , to get that place going . |
| 30 | I did n't think it applied to technical consultants . |