Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children will enjoy seeing the chaos as Henry leads all the young animals out into the forest , where it takes the farmer a long time to catch them . |
| 2 | Huddersfield Town .... 3 Nottingham Forest .... 3 ( aet ; score at 90 minutes 3-3 ; Forest win on away goals ) NOTTINGHAM FOREST , the Littlewoods Cup holders , stayed in the competition by the skin of their teeth last night at Leeds Road , where it took the League 's away goals regulations to defeat the otherwise indomitable spirit of Huddersfield in a stirring tie . |
| 3 | By that time the flame was also very thin , and where it touched the wall the molten rock spat and ran . |
| 4 | There were no bandages large enough in the wheelbarrow to make a cold compress , so I poured water on my sock where it touched the inflammation , but the water filled my boot and left the sock barely damp . |
| 5 | She has hung ‘ Christabel ’ in her bedroom where it catches the morning sun and shows up my imperfections . |
| 6 | Here , where it cut the highway , the steep bank of the river would give them protection from the full force of the hurricane . |
| 7 | Likewise , Minton 's huge harbour scene , returned from the Lefevre , was sent off to the Royal Academy 's 1949 Summer Exhibition where it attracted the ridicule of Sir Alfred Munnings . |
| 8 | LASMO is now active in The Netherlands where it operates the Markham field which straddles the border between the UK and The Netherlands . |
| 9 | As usual , rainwater fills up the aquifer and water flows out from it where it meets the surface . |
| 10 | There was coppa , made from the muscular part of the pig 's neck where it meets the shoulder , and prosciutto , Parma ham , which comes from the same part of the pig as English gammon , and is cured in specially air-cooled rooms up in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma . |
| 11 | The aim of the association is to acquire greater access to the countryside in areas where it feels the public is unreasonably excluded . |
| 12 | Regent International Hotels , which was recently acquired by Four Seasons , has returned to London — where it owned the Dorchester for a short while — to open the 309-room , Regent Hotel , Marylebone . |
| 13 | It is however a strong argument in the sense that it aims to attack the notion of justified belief in just those areas where it attacks the notion of knowledge . |
| 14 | He wrote north for reinforcements on 10 June and the army assembled at Pontefract a fortnight later , where it witnessed the execution of Rivers , Vaughan and Grey before moving south under the command of Northumberland and Sir Richard Ratcliffe . |
| 15 | He wrote north for reinforcements on 10 June and the army assembled at Pontefract a fortnight later , where it witnessed the execution of Rivers , Vaughan and Grey before moving south under the command of Northumberland and Sir Richard Ratcliffe . |
| 16 | They produce beef that no one will buy at the price at which they want to sell it , so they are subsidised by the European taxpayer to dump it in West Africa , where it destroys the livelihoods of poor farmers . |
| 17 | The railway crossing was protected by imposing level crossing gates where it crossed the tram line . |
| 18 | Complex instances of the clause occur in the following cases discussed : D. 34.3.28.1 , where it amounts to a repetitio of the provisions of an earlier will ; D. 32.34.3 , where it imposes the burden of paying dispositions on one of the heirs in particular ; D. 40.5.56 , where it amounts to a repetitio of dispositions from the substitute heirs . |
| 19 | This coordination of two developmental events , crucial to the formation of the eye , is achieved in some animals by the approaching eyecup inducing the lens to develop just where it touches the surface , and so the lens develops at the right place . |
| 20 | These jettison the shared medium of Ethernet in favour of a star-shaped configuration in which each networked device sits at the end of its own private Ethernet segment , where it gets the benefit of the whole 10Mbps . |
| 21 | On the other hand , where it suited the nobility to retain ownership they could , until 1881 , refuse to embark upon redemption at all . |
| 22 | It arose from a groundswell of opinion in the EC that the internal market would be a success only where it had the support of both ‘ sides ’ of industry and if it was designed to benefit every citizen of the Community . |
| 23 | Before her a green sea rippled , melting into azure where it met the sky . |
| 24 | It seemed remarkably near : a flat blue sheet , crawling as in Hong Kong with the skeins of hidden currents , stippled and rippled by breezes , and turning brassy gold where it met the horizon on to which the sun was now setting fast . |
| 25 | Later it was taken over and paved by the Romans from a point north of Oxford to Sturdy 's Castle , where it met the east-west road of Akeman Street . |
| 26 | Richard touched his finger reflexively to a light dressing on the left side of his neck where it met the collarbone . |
| 27 | It makes its appearance on the bold ridge by the Rollright Stones , where it forms the boundary between Warwickshire and Oxfordshire for part of its course . |
| 28 | Where it cross the X and Y erm |
| 29 | He could see it steaming where it coated the rim and the long-handled wooden spoon . |
| 30 | This particularly applies where it appears the public is being parted from its money without receiving , or being likely to receive , anything in return . |