Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In places , it defies understanding to this day . |
| 2 | Except that it if it involved waiting in this corridor for much longer , one of the security cameras might start to register her despite all diversionary moves , and she should therefore now take a break of at least six hours before coming back here . |
| 3 | But IBM immediately realized it faced a possible unexpected success , redesigned what was basically Univac 's machine for such mundane applications as payroll , and within five years became the leader in the computer industry , a position it has maintained to this day . |
| 4 | Although the executives of the rugby club were in favour of the earlier offer , the cricket club committee was firmly against it a stand it has maintained to this day . |
| 5 | take proceedings at its own expense and for its own benefit , but in your name , or in the name of anyone else insured by this policy , to recover any payment it has made under this policy |
| 6 | take proceedings at its own expense and for its own benefit , but in your name , or in the name of anyone else insured by this policy , to recover any payment it has made under this policy |
| 7 | But still the habit of flying north for the summer persisted among the birds and it has remained to this day , even though the journey is no longer a few miles , but several hundred . |
| 8 | Although the board paid an interim dividend of 0.65 pence , it has decided at this stage to invest its funds in the business — the amount available , says chairman Rupert Bayfield , would have been negligible anyway . |
| 9 | Unlike the state monopoly telecommunications business which has tended to stay that way , the semiconductor chip business started out with United States commercial dominance ; it has continued on this pattern , with the one major change that in the 1980S the multinational companies dominating the world chip business ceased to be predominantly American and became a combination of Japanese and United States companies . |
| 10 | It looked mishapen in this light , almost as if something was eating away at it . |
| 11 | They were alone with the silently hurtling river and the great , gross wound it had made in this bank , curls of dark-red soil peeled back and rolling downhill , and a tangle of uprooted broom bushes . |
| 12 | The road he followed marked the seasonal migration of sheep from the treeless limestone plateau further inland to the watered valleys around ; it had led across this terrain since the Romans had farmed there . |
| 13 | It had smelled like this soap today , a light , entirely distinctive smell , a little like — what flower ? |
| 14 | I do n't think it does matter in this case . |
| 15 | This does not give irrefutable evidence of the participation of the oxycarbonyl unit but it does point in this direction . |
| 16 | Coming in at all , so that 's , that is n't easy , but it , eh were it works it 's really good I mean for example we , we d o up the Poll Tax enforcement policy , erm and again it was where the Cou I mean if the Council had followed the legislation on Poll Tax collection , it 's you know , erm and it did n't want to do that , and so again well , it 's , well it 's related to this legislation bit , but we looked at , we looked at how we could get round that legal procedure and we looked at developing a more sensitive policy and we had to do that with other departments . |
| 17 | cos er gone in er , it 's gone in this week , but er |
| 18 | The computer misuses act sounds like another law which might help , it 's enforced at this police unit in London , but it too seems powerless to stop outsiders impersonating or bribing their way to get hold of personal data . |
| 19 | For example Australia produces quite a lot , Sweden produces a lot , and it 's imported into this country in bulk ore carriers . |
| 20 | But as I say , this says that , an that 's a relatively new and certainly draconian power , and it 's recommended in this document that it 's removed . |
| 21 | It begins to sound from this description that it 's I twelve which is a bit of a dinosaur , a a dodo , that this is a county trying to carry on a thing which has probably passed its sell by date , that er it is n't fair to say that I five is primarily for industry , erm that is n't what the law says it is . |