Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow I ca n't see it catching on in the way Play-Doh did . |
| 2 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 3 | You wanted it to go out in the summer |
| 4 | I got sick of this , so I brought an old alarm clock and hung it around my neck and set it to go off at the moment he walked in one day . |
| 5 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 6 | It turns up as a footnote in every textbook and training manual . |
| 7 | It turns out in the end that , that , all the readings were in there it 's just a matter locating them ! |
| 8 | Aware of the constant potential threat from gangs of gunmen , their mission was to bring the food into the country and make sure it got through to the people most deserving of it . |
| 9 | and then when it got over to the Clerks ' Department they used to stick it on another piece of paper so that they could put it on the file |
| 10 | They would n't even tell their own mothers what size socks they wear , in case it got out to the papers . ’ |
| 11 | The publican 's daughter told her elder sister , who told her aunt , and so it got back to the girl 's parents . |
| 12 | He raises it over his head and brings it crashing down on the back of the man 's head ; once , twice , three times . |
| 13 | First I pulled the great ladder away from the tower , sending it crashing back into the trees . |
| 14 | It harked back to the world of the fourth- and fifth-century Christian emperors ; at the same time it signalled a new world of money-using economic agents including peasants and small-scale traders . |
| 15 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
| 16 | It passed out of the family 's hands and became a mental hospital in 1935 . |
| 17 | I did n't try the grilled Greek halloumi cheese with pitta bread , but as it passed by on the way to another table I rather wished I had . |
| 18 | The Western was in its dying throes , but Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969 kept it hanging on by a thread . |
| 19 | and then it goes through to the back , now his , although it looks |
| 20 | As soon as an assignment has been fully proofed it goes on to a list which is published every two months to all of the sales execs and you just look out for your number , all right ? and you 've got your own personal records of course , if you know you 've earned bonus then that 's where to claim it . |
| 21 | Well it 's a bit like that but instead of making it go round all the church it goes on to the tape . |
| 22 | It goes on for a minute . |
| 23 | It 's almost sad , and it goes up at the end . |
| 24 | If you get through that you 've got to give the balloon a good hard squirt to make it burn , and if you do make it burn it goes up with a hell of a whoomph and you 've still got to get away . ’ |
| 25 | Now I , I often gives in , in schools , and I particularly show that slide because as you can see it goes up to the year twenty forty er now I shall be a hundred and four in the year twenty forty I wo n't ask you to calculate what age you will be in the year twenty forty it might be quite large erm |
| 26 | Once a Bill has passed its Commons ' stage it goes up to the House of Lords where the same process is repeated , except that the Committee stage is taken on the floor of the House . |
| 27 | And when it goes down to a water hole to drink it crouches down and awkwardly sips with its mouth . |
| 28 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 29 | It goes down to the throat with redness and swelling , enlarged tonsils , hot head , congested face , heavy limbs , a gradual onset . |
| 30 | Local legend states that when it hears the church clock strike twelve it goes down to the River Avon to drink . |