Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen is making the point here that the sun once woke this man up , and every morning it has done the same thing , dutifully , as it had woken the rest of the world up too . |
| 2 | My second book , although it has used the same idea of telekinetic powers , has a completely different story line . |
| 3 | issued in 1604 : it happens to use the same fount of music type as the Select Songs in the Fairy Queen , and it occupies two and a half pages : it could not have been squeezed onto two . |
| 4 | It seemed to bear the same relationship to the country he was travelling through as Ptolemy 's view of the world to a satellite picture of the earth . |
| 5 | Unfortunately this is the least glamorous of any of the activities of a busy public relations office and it tends to receive the least attention . |
| 6 | As it crawls round and round in circles it keeps revisiting the same pebbles . |
| 7 | Ritual mourning for the divine son of a mother-goddess is very common throughout ancient polytheism — not to mention modern polytheisms like Catholicism — where it seems to represent the same situation as the self-inflicted mutilations but at one remove . |
| 8 | Perhaps the one big glaring example where natural predation can have a significant effect , quite astonishing on occasions , is with greenfly , and no doubt the most familiar example — it seems to get the most publicity — is the ladybird . |
| 9 | This is most easily dealt with by ensuring that when Newco is formed it elects to have the same accounting year-end date as Target . |
| 10 | In a rare act of editorial humility , the paper acknowledged that it had made the same mistake itself . |
| 11 | Days later I realised he was trying to tell me about the Brighton bombing ; it had occurred the same morning . |
| 12 | However , it does have the least number of extras supplied with it , so it is basic in that sense . |
| 13 | And I 've come back years later and it 's had the same effect on me . ’ |