Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 2 | The meaning of " written standard terms of business 's has already been considered and it seems clear that s3 will always apply to terms in standard terms of trading . |
| 3 | So we , the answer is we do n't really know but it seems common sense to apply barrier precautions and to do everything you can to modify the type of surgery so that the chances of having an injury with a sharp instrument are reduced , and people have made some constructive proposals along these lines . |
| 4 | I 'd like to grow it a bit longer , but the ends are inclined to split and it looks dull . |
| 5 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 6 | The belly button was protruding and it looked ready to burst . |
| 7 | I already have an estimate from Woodlands Incorporated and it seemed satisfactory to me . " |
| 8 | As far as I know , nobody noticed and it remained Labour Party policy for years afterwards . |
| 9 | It was the first show of emotion she had made and it did more to make Wexford believe her story than all the documentary evidence she had furnished him with . |
| 10 | It appears , therefore , that synaptogenic mechanisms have been strongly conserved and it seems likely that similar molecular and genetic pathways control these interactions in Drosophila and other organisms . |
| 11 | Charlie 's office was small and poky and lightless and overcrowded , but the number of possible hiding places was limited and it seemed that she-d tried them all . |
| 12 | The study is re- examining the national accounts measurement of government services ; it argues that most public servants in fact do things which can be measured and it provides some alternative estimates for real output growth in education , health and public administration ( which compares well with broadly analogous private financial services ) . |
| 13 | much better than backing it to win and it comes second . |
| 14 | Its yellow eyes were looking at me ; its mouth opened and it made strange sounds at me . |
| 15 | It is well-built , great to play and it sounds good , too . |
| 16 | Linguistic analysis may distinguish cases where meaning is not effectively conveyed but it remains unconcerned with what is meant by an utterance ; structural linguistics is not an interpretive study . |
| 17 | ‘ Laughing when you should be crying ca n't be helped but it sends other people the wrong signals , so they may be shocked . ’ |
| 18 | I think at the moment the it 's the Scottish theory , not proven but it looks promising . |
| 19 | but over the years it 's got loose and you 've probably fiddled and it did broken |
| 20 | It was the picture he loved to give and it concealed all that he really was . |
| 21 | ‘ Ashley 's hotel is in a different part of town from where everyone else is staying and it seemed unfair to expect them to take a detour , ’ his mother explained . |
| 22 | The joint between your quartered oak disappear and it becomes one block . |
| 23 | The benefits of this method are that it can be easily understood and it gives total control over every element at all times . |
| 24 | It is not as highly structured a programme as microteaching would demand but it applies some microteaching principles in the emphasis placed on the elements of classroom interaction . |
| 25 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 26 | When the adsorbent becomes saturated with odour molecules its adsorptive capacity is greatly reduced and it becomes necessary to regenerate the adsorbent , usually by treatment with superheated steam . |
| 27 | This is undoubtedly the most intimate physical contact two human beings can have and it requires sweet breath , which means freshly brushed teeth . |
| 28 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 29 | Of his education little is known but it seems likely that his family engaged a private tutor for him — he may have also have been a private fee-paying pupil at the West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter . |
| 30 | Can you just explain how that would work though 'cos we 're now erm , auditing by job , are n't we , and given I do n't know the audit timetable I ca n't visualise the effect this would have but it seems that one could be making a change 'cos a particular , a job 's been audited and it effects Q P1 , or something one month , and therefore you make changes to it and another job 's audited the second , another month , the second month and Q P1 needs changing again , and it , in terms of keeping our staff with us , it will be quite conf , I think it 's not terribly practical to keep having constant change . |