Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’ |
| 2 | Lock your door , set whatever device will rouse you at a definite time ( cooking-timer , flashing alarm clock , vibrator ) — set it to go off in eight minutes . |
| 3 | Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 the NCC must offer a management agreement to any farmer on an SSSI whose application for an agricultural grant it turns down on conservation grounds . |
| 4 | According to Axelrod and Hamilton , ‘ It turns out in many cases that if a fig wasp entering a young fig does not pollinate enough flowers for seeds and instead lays eggs in almost all , the tree cuts off the developing fig at an early stage . |
| 5 | I 've spent all these years thinking about it , wondering how it got in to that house . |
| 6 | cos it refers back to national curriculum . |
| 7 | If no one objects , it goes through without more ado . |
| 8 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 9 | There are , of course , many occupations in which similar demands of constant readiness are made , but when it goes on for twenty years or more it is inclined to upset a good domestic relationship . |
| 10 | ‘ The men wo n't come in 'ere if they 're on strike , ‘ specially if it goes on fer any length of time . |
| 11 | It goes on in more detail but that is the basis of it . |
| 12 | And then it goes up under any way . |
| 13 | and then , that week , he sell 's ten pence a can , then the following week he still bought it ten pence , following week it goes up to eighteen pence , but he 's still selling what , so I do n't think it , I think . |
| 14 | And on the front sheet o entitled affordable housing , we see there that in the case of Hambleton we 'd be looking at forty one percent , of the remaining dwellings being unaffordable being affordable houses , down to York where it goes up to ninety percent . |
| 15 | It goes along for twelve months . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , though she may not recognise the name it goes by from any catalogue of thou-shalt-nots , our Riva knows an abomination when she sees one . |
| 17 | I therefore put it to him that he has really now er a definite choice , he can seek to resist most of these amendments and I have n't a slightest doubt they 'll be put into the Bill er the Bill will be drastically altered thereby er and when it goes back to another place nobody quite knows er wh what will happen to it , or he can use his very considerable powers of conciliation er by taking a little time for further consideration . |
| 18 | There was Tizer and cream soda and beer and lassi to drink , all of it laid out on white tablecloths with tiny paper napkins for all of us . |
| 19 | As L & Y shed No. 17 it housed up to 40 locomotives including LYR 4-4-0s , 2-4-2 tanks , 2-6-2 tanks and Dreadnought 4-6-0s for working the passenger traffic to Preston Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 20 | It will not look at how the decision to make the video is taken or how it fits in with other services the child receives from the SSD , NSPCC , and others . |
| 21 | It is easy to operate as it fits in with existing school organisation . |
| 22 | ‘ As Mr. Pannick says , it cries out for some explanation from the board . |
| 23 | So it made up for any other , er , you know . |
| 24 | Er there 's another book which is similar to the other one in the sense that it made up of some papers by Phillips , Steel and Tants and that has some information about Mexicano in it , er and you find that some people er were giving Mexican language a low a low prestige rate whereas other group in the community were doing the opposite and giving a high prestige rate or certainly a less low one , er in favour of spanish a lot of the Because it was in I think it 's in South America I guess , er you find that a lot of the locals were switching to spanish because it was coming the dominant language er because of societal pressures and constraints and so on . |
| 25 | But what it lost in architectural refinement , it made up in staggering scale . |
| 26 | I think what was in the village news it arose out of those children 's survey down there and what happened was that Mrs did n't think we 'd er put in perhaps as politely as we should . |
| 27 | and it changed out of all recognition . |
| 28 | It was a triumph of planning in so short a time for so complicated a matter , most of it carried through in most places within a year or two years of the passing of the act . |
| 29 | The public may best remember its airshows , but history 's more likely to credit Abingdon with the vital maintenance work it carried out on Allied aircraft from World War Two to the Gulf conflict . |
| 30 | Wrangham 's theory remains tentative but if it stands up to further investigation it suggests that humans were primordially partrilineal . |