Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seems , anyway , to be a metaphorical confusion in this idea : if the inner life is in need of air , how come it takes place in the least accessible parts of our being ? |
| 2 | The problem with dinghy sailing is that once the sailing bug is caught it grabs hold . |
| 3 | The library committee had found other staff very responsive to such ideas and a staff workshop had been planned , although industrial action had prevented it taking place . |
| 4 | Where nothing is written it takes time to create a document which is genuinely useful to many of us , both as a verification of our struggle and a signpost to future strategies for our art work . |
| 5 | This is a very simple philosophy but , in my experience , I have seen it work time and time again . |
| 6 | Years later one of Cahiers ' most influential critics , Jean-Luc Godard , admitted that none of them had really believed in the theory , but had used it to draw attention to themselves . |
| 7 | Later , after returning home , in bed with his wife , the merchant taxes her about not having told him the monk had given her the money ; she claims that she thought the money the monk gave her was gift , and that she has already used it to buy clothing ; she will pay , she says , her debts to her husband in bed . |
| 8 | The US National Institute of Standards & Technology has used it to increase performance of robotic factory operations . |
| 9 | The US National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) has used it to increase performance of robotic factory operations . |
| 10 | For example the Labour party planned to abolish compulsory competitive tendering in the public sector although many managers would have still continued with the practice if convinced it brought efficiency gains . |
| 11 | Yeah , I 've just got it going granddad . |
| 12 | Are you talking about the current rate as it prevails or we 're told it prevails ion North Yorkshire , or are you looking at a figure which is somewhat nearer the national average or the figure which Mr 's organization have chosen . |
| 13 | You 've told it to spell check . |
| 14 | But not far behind in the firing line are welfare-dependent single-parent families , now so used to being vilified it seems time to offer a blindfold and last cigarette . |
| 15 | Venners , the ‘ Son of Fred ’ to quote the title of his autobiography , came from a council estate in Dagenham or Corned Beef City as he and his street-pals irreverently called it to taste fame , fortune and hero-worship . |
| 16 | The NPFL 's advance had enabled it to secure control of the port of Buchanan , 100 km south-east of Monrovia , after fierce fighting on May 23 . |
| 17 | The intimate relationship of Blackpool with the Wakes Weeks towns had enabled it to raise capital for its piers , Winter Gardens and other improvements . |
| 18 | To have found it turns evil to great good . |
| 19 | The vessel was said to have been intelligence gathering and the damage it sustained caused it to release oil and form another , though smaller , slick to float about the Gulf . |
| 20 | Dunlop Footwear has also announced it plans recycling of old wellington boots . |
| 21 | ‘ At worst , it can lead to someone who has taken it stopping breathing , ’ said Mr Wardle . |
| 22 | To advocate a policy of anything less than unlimited release of all information as soon as the investigator has discovered it represents heresy to the media , giving rise to accusations of cover-up and officials being excessively secretive , while the legal profession are liable to take on a more aggressive attitude by suggesting incompetence and serving subpoenae requiring the compulsory production of evidence in court . |
| 23 | Compression Laboratories Inc , San Jose , says Bell Atlantic Corp has chosen it to supply technology for the phone company 's video-on-demand trial for up to 400 residential homes : Compression Labs will provide digital video encoders and decoders which convert standard analogue video signals to a compressed digital video format ; terms of the pact were not disclosed . |
| 24 | The in-house survey referred to above found that 78 per cent of the weekend guests had gone to the hotel because they had read it offered leisure facilities . |