Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second hand had stopped where it had met the pin inserted near the 55-second mark . |
| 2 | While I was struggling to stop it , frost was formed where it struck my already cold hand . |
| 3 | Plugs or outlets too , are often fitted in a haphazard way around the room , with the result that when a lamp is placed where it seems most needed , it frequently has to trail a dangerous mess of flex or wire with it . |
| 4 | But in July Mary of Guise was able to fight back more successfully , and at the end of the month the two sides made another truce , by which Edinburgh was to be free to choose its religion , and Catholic observance was not to be reinstated where it had been suppressed . |
| 5 | His thick black curly hair seemed to grow around his head like a crown , leaving his forehead exposed where it had receded . |
| 6 | Why do they have to go where it says : Danger ? ’ |
| 7 | I 've used a balloon in Africa but you tend to go where it wants ! |
| 8 | a similar point arose where it proposed to serve the writ and an Anton Piller order out of the jurisdiction on a Belgian company . |
| 9 | I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall . |
| 10 | But technology and global competition will eventually put more people to work than it makes redundant |
| 11 | Instead it is thought Meiko will use the Fujitsu Ltd VP single-chip vector processor for floating point operations alongside the Texas Instruments Inc Viking SuperSparc for scalar operations , although Meiko has said that Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's HyperSparc will be considered once it became available ( UX No 385 ) , and that the i860 could work with the new architecture if required . |
| 12 | It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 13 | That occurred although it took up a large slice of their already-depleted income , and they also ran the risk of getting lung cancer and other smoking related diseases , and placed the health of their children in jeopardy . |
| 14 | In 1978 , when the factory moved , the union was officially dissolved although it continued to function secretly . |
| 15 | Damage caused to non-business property can be claimed if it exceeds £275 in value . |
| 16 | Golf development will not normally be permitted if it causes unacceptable disruption to the public enjoyment of rights of way . |
| 17 | ‘ Looks like it hurts , ’ laughed Sandy , wresting the straw away from Meg and drinking her milk-shake noisily . |
| 18 | This chapter will therefore look at status in the landscape , since this hierarchy and the differences in status are so evident and mean so much in terms of why the landscape looks like it does . |
| 19 | Looks like it does n't it ? |
| 20 | Looks like it does n't it ? |
| 21 | Yeah , looks like it does n't it ? |
| 22 | It looks like it dun n it ? |
| 23 | Yeah looks like it dun n it ? |
| 24 | Yvonne 's wearing a little black number that to my untutored eye looks like it could have cost ten quid or a thousand ; Clare is rather more ostentatious in a short , sparkling , crimson creation that looks like it wants to be a ball-gown when it grows up . |
| 25 | ‘ I need that cash for a deposit on my new place , but it looks like it 's gone for good now . ’ |
| 26 | This results in a clean , undistorted image which looks like it 's come out of a laser printer rather than a fax machine . |
| 27 | I think it 's cos , it looks like it 's made out of cardboard . |
| 28 | So I was wanting to mention why it looks like it 's happened just now . |
| 29 | Well it 's , it looks like it 's been cooking . |
| 30 | It looks like it 's been on the M twenty five on a Friday night , and every tyre 's been over it . |