Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are in the river and pee in the water , it can sense your urine and will swim up to lodge in you , swimming up the nearest orifice and sticking out its barbs , which is meant to be excruciatingly painful — and it takes surgery to get one out . |
| 2 | If you write a spreadsheet for somebody else , you might be using a sixty six megahertz four eight six duel processor erm , spaceship , and , somebody is using a steam driven I B M A T or something , and it runs quite acceptably on your machine , a reasonable speed , and you give it to somebody else on that steam driven thing , and it takes ages to do anything , and er , you press a button and they wait half an hour sort of thing . |
| 3 | And it takes ages to call |
| 4 | The most common type used by gardeners is drawn through the earth by rotors that dig the soil and it takes practice to get the knack of using it . |
| 5 | It 's like two distinct things , two different worlds , and it takes time to make the transition between them in one sitting . ’ |
| 6 | In order to have a current , charge carriers must be accelerated , and it takes time to accelerate particles of finite mass . |
| 7 | She 's very young , only a girl really , and it takes time to get used to this funny little country . |
| 8 | yeah I think that 's probably the best thing and gradually the past you 've missed might start fitting into place as it were you know if you , if you keep up with the present , I think that 's probably the best thing so er and , you know , er I know it 's no comfort but these things take time , you know it takes time to get socialized into something and it takes time to get used to a way of working . |
| 9 | He does not know what to do , and it takes time to solve the problem . |
| 10 | And it takes nerve to walk and sit to order in the glare of the lights with all those people watching . |
| 11 | Bereavement is the one battle in which people dice with a death that has already occurred in order to survive all the dangers of the loss and deprivation it brings , and it takes courage to stand shoulder to shoulder with someone who is in the thick of it . |
| 12 | He was already out there , virtually his spiritual home according to his team-mates back in Taunton , and it made sense to put him on alert . |
| 13 | There are several reasons why this may be present , but the main one is that it ‘ guarantees ’ that the manufacturer has conformed with EC weight regulations and it enables foods to move easily between EC countries without having to go through lengthy weight checks in the importing country . |
| 14 | But fortunately the traffic was heavy and it took ages to reach Bethnal Green . |
| 15 | big one and it took ages to dry off , yeah . |
| 16 | It would sadden Mr Peniket and the older parishioners and it saddened Quentin to think it would , but he saw no point in sitting in a chair and meditating all day . |
| 17 | Making tree ties properly is an art , and it needs practice to do it well . |
| 18 | Philippa , whose face was normally as radiant and untroubled as a child 's , had not stopped frowning since Lee had started talking to her that afternoon and it annoyed Conrad to see it . |
| 19 | The error was spotted after work began and it cost £70,000 to raise the bridge . |
| 20 | On our first day of trading we took £8.36 , which delighted us , but a local health nut had eaten the geraniums and it cost £6 to replace them . |
| 21 | Surely marriage and prostitution are separate and it insults marriage to infer that they thrive on one another ? |
| 22 | And it raises money to help the Wellington come back to life — highly recommended . |
| 23 | The benefit plus arrangement has become well established over the last four years and it makes sense to use it for Community Action . |
| 24 | Those bound for Australia or New Zealand by air will find themselves re-fuelling here at least , and it makes sense to stop and rest . |
| 25 | The reality is that we are dealing with half of a metropolitan region because it is manageable on this scale for the study of residential patterns and it makes sense to review base at the same level . |
| 26 | This needs careful planning and it makes sense to start saving early . |
| 27 | And it wants students to complete PhD theses more quickly . |
| 28 | But it takes bottle to bury your feelings and accept defeat , no matter what the competition . |
| 29 | The kind of limitations imposed by restrictions of full-time caring are not normal to someone in midlife but it takes courage to change the pattern once the need to be restricted has passed . |
| 30 | But it takes nerve to make the first step . |