Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Save any vegetable water and use it to whip up a healthy cocktail or as a basis for gravy .
2 ‘ And if you keep both feet in you 've more chance of dropping back into the chair on your knees when it tries to flip , ready for it to whip back the other way , ’ says Birchall .
3 ‘ The refinancing will place the necessary cash at the disposal of Norsk Data A/S , enabling it to carry out a private resolution in which its unsecured creditors are offered a cash dividend of 25% , but the banks ‘ required as a condition for financing that the present share capital shall be written down to zero , and that a share issue shall be carried out by partly converting the banks ’ debt into equity . ’
4 It turns out a healthy bhp ( or bhp with an intercooler in the up-market TDS models ) .
5 ‘ … originally the ego includes everything , later it separates off an external world from itself ’ .
6 It insists that this is therefore the best guide to what they should do , that it points out the right direction for continuing and developing that practice .
7 The pain was intense , gripping her with its cruel talons , biting deep , but not so deep that it wiped out the sudden rush of anger she felt at his blind stubbornness .
8 If it goes down a thirty hole , it 'll be sixty wo n't it cos it 's double score .
9 oh just shoving sheets of plate into a , a machine that comes down and it take , it goes out the other end and you put another one in all day long
10 She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’
11 Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way .
12 I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time .
13 He set aside an area of one hundred and nine acres to the east of the original Saxon village ( called Old Town to this day ) and on it laid out a regular plan of streets — three running parallel with the river and three others crossing them at right angles .
14 Look at the decision of the Exchequer Chamber how we may , it laid down a new principle .
15 It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) .
16 Press the switch on the fascia and it lights up a new world of controlled cooking .
17 That class would vote solidly as a class for candidates representative of that class , and since it made up a clear majority of the population , what could stand in the way of its political ascendancy ?
18 You let them play against one another and sometimes you transfer a player from one club to another , so that it builds up a mutual admiration society .
19 It let out a long clang .
20 This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 .
21 She stared , hypnotised , not daring to move again as he resumed his task , and she fought her physical responses , rigidly blocking out the sensual touch of each curling finger as it hooked up the criss-crossing lace .
22 Well I must say I much prefer it like that cos it covers up the ugly fence .
23 When the Heath administration first began to expand its intelligence activities in Ulster , it operated a number of agents , complete with English accents , before it built up an indigenous network .
24 Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street .
25 " Private Eye " fell into this trap when it beat off an interim injunction from Robert Maxwell by promising to prove at trial that he had financed Neil Kinnock 's foreign travel in the hope of being awarded a peerage .
26 The route this year will once again start from Bournemouth Pier , run along the promenade up to Hengistbury Head , before leaving the line of the sea as it heads up the scenic cliff tops and down to Boscombe Pier .
27 At the instant of applying the excess rudder , it speeds up the outer wing-tip , creating more lift there , and gives the inner wing ‘ sweep back ’ in relation to the airflow , thus increasing the tendency to tip stall on that wing while reducing it on the other .
28 It filled in an important gap in her information .
29 yeah , but it came back the other day did n't it ?
30 It huddles round a flint-towered church and sprawls down to the North Sea — and what a wallop the sea makes as it pounds at the shingle . "
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