Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | It turns up as a footnote in every textbook and training manual . |
4 | It turns out in the end that , that , all the readings were in there it 's just a matter locating them ! |
5 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
6 | and then it goes through to the back , now his , although it looks |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Well it 's a bit like that but instead of making it go round all the church it goes on to the tape . |
9 | It goes on for a minute . |
10 | It 's almost sad , and it goes up at the end . |
11 | 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 . ’ |
12 | 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 |
13 | 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 . |
14 | And when it goes down to a water hole to drink it crouches down and awkwardly sips with its mouth . |
15 | 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 |
16 | It goes down to the throat with redness and swelling , enlarged tonsils , hot head , congested face , heavy limbs , a gradual onset . |
17 | You can see there 's been a wee bit of damage to that ligament just where it goes down over the top of that bone . |
18 | Look every time we 've done it that 's what we also do it goes out on the manager 's report w with the minutes or with the agenda . |
19 | " Well , it goes out with every tide . |
20 | And it goes out in a blaze of colour — a spectacular firework display which starts at 6.45pm and goes on into the night . |
21 | It goes back to the question I posed above : what motivates people to study sex differences and to place such emphasis upon them ? |
22 | It goes back to the distinction between langue and parole , the system itself and the use of the system in actual social contexts . |
23 | There is nothing new about the way in which the game 's ruling bodies are at loggerheads ( it goes back to the League 's formation ) but the stakes are now very high . |
24 | And then you put a return in at the end of that and it goes back to the margin again . |
25 | Whether it goes back to the Iron Age or the Bronze Age , however , it has lost its original character as a wide trackway across open country . |
26 | She wears little make-up for work and says : ‘ It goes back to the time when I started in the job . |
27 | In in fact it was n't long before it was n't long before Christmas was it we we actually got together and I wrote a memo that if there is anything erm before it leaves the plant , if the tractor driver or whatever e does n't like it and it 's not acceptable then it goes back to the plant . |
28 | It goes back to the astronomer Ptolemy of Alexandria ( fl. c . . |
29 | it goes back into the washer |
30 | Huge sums of money were generated by the World Cup and it is of the greatest importance that most of it goes back into the game and its development . |