Example sentences of "[vb base] [subord] it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to see the earth grow and everything in the earth grow until it touched the skids of heaven , and no one could be dead . |
| 2 | Councillors say while it appears the situation is a fait accompli , they feel they should take every opportunity to save the home . |
| 3 | These grow and mature until it becomes a flower , a tree , a tiger or a human being — or whatever it is destined to become — depending on the characteristics transmitted to it through its inherited material , the genes , which are grouped together in its chromosomes . |
| 4 | I mean cos it makes a difference the pack I bring out . |
| 5 | Of the water which infiltrates into the soil , some is taken up by vegetation and is transpired and the rest either flows down-slope through the soil as interflow or throughflow until it reaches a stream channel , or sinks through the soil to become part of the groundwater . |
| 6 | The animal liberationists certainly think that the ‘ cruelty-kindness view ’ , as Regan calls it ( 1983 : 195–200 ) , is speciesist since it ignores the extent to which animal awareness is akin to that of human beings . |
| 7 | Earlier predictions indicated that as much as 5,000 volts of energy would be generated along the tether as it crossed the Earth 's magnetic field at around 28,000 kph . |
| 8 | That is one of the friendlier charges Wessis level at their brethren in the ‘ new federal states ’ ( a description Ossis loathe because it slights the history of regions like Saxony and Brandenburg ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course , See if it matches the semen from the victim . ’ |
| 10 | See if it looks the way it sounds . |
| 11 | Sentence 9a is odd because table does not combine normally with see if it occupies the X-slot ; it does , however , function as a perfectly normal occupant of the Y-slot ( Arthur saw the table ) . |