Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After it has travelled a hundred yards or so , it bivouacs . |
| 2 | Ayala Corp , the Philippines biggest conglomerate says it has signed a generalised telecommunications co-operation agreement with the state owned Singapore Telecom Ltd . |
| 3 | The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , AT&T said it has introduced a flexible benefits programme to help control health-care costs . |
| 5 | It has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , future plans for Win16 , its 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , so crucial for Windows developers . |
| 6 | In an attempt to forestall or derail Microsoft Corp 's likely objections to its WABI Windows Applications Binary Interface for running Windows applications under Unix , Sun Microsystems Inc is expected to reveal at the WABI launch tomorrow that it has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , its future plans for the Win16 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , this week 's issue of our sister paper Unigram.X reports . |
| 7 | It has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , future plans for Win16 , its 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , so crucial for Windows developers ( CI No 2,160 ) . |
| 8 | It has opened a dozen shops with an intriguing new concept — pile it high and sell it cheap — and plans a chain of 200 . |
| 9 | It has opened a preliminary EOS Europe office and its EOS Korea has been in full operation for six months . |
| 10 | I accept that it has taken a few years for the process to be completed , but everyone who studies the history books will be able to trace the downfall of the Thatcher Government — as some may still call it — to the time when she was foolish enough to remove the right hon. Gentleman from the duties that he was carrying out so successfully . |
| 11 | If Labour win the election it wants to introduce a fair rates system with up to date , thorough property valuations linked to a tenant 's ability to pay . |
| 12 | It did take a few minutes to get used to the cutting action of steadying the saw on it shoe , starting the motor , then gradually starting the cut by pivoting down with the blade , but it was a knack soon acquired . |
| 13 | I found out how well after a serious filter failure while away , but it did take a few days for the lethargic specimen to return to full health . |
| 14 | ‘ Besides , it pays to know a few things about a bloke you 're going to be sharing with , especially when that bloke 's topped three other geezers . ’ |
| 15 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
| 16 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
| 17 | It had taken a hundred firemen from three counties to bring the blaze under control , and it destroyed half the British armed forces stock of parachutes.Senior Aircraftman Douglas Bailey had drunk the equivalent of seventeen pints of beer . |
| 18 | It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life . |
| 19 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 20 | Although I have to admit to buying Sat , Sun , Mon cause it does have a good sports section — especially the cricket . |
| 21 | Pour it into a pewter container and before it solidifies embed a few matches into the mixture |
| 22 | In so doing , it threatens to ignite a nuclear arms race in Asia that could prompt South Korea , Taiwan and Japan to develop nuclear arsenals . |
| 23 | If it 's done a thousand miles , you 'd get nine thousand five hundred and then cos of the mileage they 'd take off a thousand divided by ten , so they 'd take a hundred pounds off that . |
| 24 | The kite string is making an angle of forty degrees there and it 's got a hundred metres of the line payed out . |
| 25 | there are bound to be occasions and er it 's happened a few occasions during my political life , where you do er find agreement with people of of various parties . |
| 26 | Last week it volunteered to create a common applications programming interface ( API ) based on its object-oriented framework and submit it gratis to X/Open Co Ltd as part of the COSE standard . |