Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I was thinking wonderful , your bedroom it looks like a palace your bedroom , . |
| 2 | As a result it slipped into a loss of £1.33m in 1988 against a £1.71m taxable profit in 1987 . |
| 3 | From the sideline it looked like a rottweiler up against a chihuahua . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | UNRWA remained permanently compromised with the refugee population it served as a result of these resettlement efforts . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For a while it looked like a possibility for national attention . |
| 19 | For a while it looked like a model performance . |
| 20 | When a child plays a game and assumes another character it enters into a form of role play which in itself is a dramatic experience ! |
| 21 | Because this role is impossible to define in terms of its action content it leads to a lack of specificity , difficulties of time calculation and the inappropriateness of contractual obligations — all hallmarks of work in general in our society and all the tools of management and bureaucracy . |
| 22 | And last night it came to a head with Mr MacSharry privately blaming his interfering boss for his decision to stand down , and Commission sources confirming that he felt badly let down by M Delors . |
| 23 | As with the verbs of perception , then , to is used here to evoke an abstract before/after relation of condition to consequence , and the movement it signifies as a potential in tongue is actualized with a final interception . |
| 24 | In fax mode it behaves like a Group III fax machine , with , unusually , a Class 1 and Class 2 protocol interface . |
| 25 | The valley , which opened in 1984 , is of national importance because of the role it played as a supplier of copper products in the 18th century . |
| 26 | ‘ In the brochure it looks like a picture of Disneyland in the bush with mud huts with all mod cons . |
| 27 | In later life it served as a stable , the 16th century structure being initially restored in 1937 and subsequently converted . |
| 28 | LIKE THE CARIBBEAN life it views with a mixture of dismay and affection , Derek Walcott 's Viva Detroit is amiable but lazy . |
| 29 | After the Reformation it looks for a moment as if the Ecclesiastical Courts would allow even a divorce in the modern sense ; but the attempt fails , and the only way of getting a complete dissolution of marriage is by special Act of Parliament ( and so the law remained , for persons domiciled in Northern Ireland , up to 1939 ) . |
| 30 | She could only have driven about a mile , she estimated , but as she trudged back along the road it seemed like a marathon trek . |