Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The well was very deep , about fifty metres down and it took Jennifer ten minutes to complete the task of lowering and raising the bucket . |
| 2 | Some like to have the item fully composed before they begin teaching others prefer to compose and teach parts , discarding and replacing as they go along until it takes shape . |
| 3 | On Nov. 25 , 1989 , a new block at the Greifswald nuclear power station was closed down before it began operations and in May 1990 the entire station was temporarily closed on safety grounds . |
| 4 | The severe turbulence , with the jet bucking up and down as it encountered windshear , had Myeloski wishing he was sitting in the back . |
| 5 | He used to give me an hours warning and then we 'd work through until it got dark out in the fields and then we 'd go into the sheds and restack the hay or whatever he wanted to do . |
| 6 | Of this , $200million will come from the US , as previously announced by President Bush , to tide Poland over until it receives $710million from the IMF as part of a long-term programme to restructure its economy . |
| 7 | An agreement in principle has reportedly been signed , but the proposed transaction has to be sanctioned by the bankruptcy court before it can go through because it involves company assets . |
| 8 | You turn it on and it tapes people singing or talking . |
| 9 | And th that that night the travel picture came on and it said Hanover . |
| 10 | A radio was turned on and it played music , which I found odd . |
| 11 | ‘ There is bit of an anti-bank campaign going on and it worried Ian , ’ his manager Jean Temple told the inquest . |
| 12 | Oh Daddy I went into the upstairs bathroom and turned on the light , it went on and it went ping and then turned off again . |
| 13 | One engineering firm had so many applications for time off that it warned absentees they would be suspended for three weeks . |
| 14 | And I pick it up and it says Loughborough Building Society and you can see about half a percent er premium rate on fifty thousand pounds , and you think that might be worth going for , for , for somebody who 's got a lot of capital , but is it really , because if you 've got fifty thousand in there , you are at risk . |
| 15 | The fire was caused by an employee of the defendants negligently forgetting to extinguish a gas flame under a chip fryer before leaving the premises for the night , with the result that the oil in the chip fryer continued to heat up until it caught fire . |
| 16 | She saw that Talvi 's frizzled up as it met Rosa 's , like a brand which is doused , and she also saw that Rosa did not notice , but went on as if a bubbling sulphurous spring rose inside her . |
| 17 | On 4 March the Belgian ship La Coubre — carrying weapons purchased by the Castro regime — was blown up as it entered Havana Bay by a bomb allegedly planted by the CIA . |
| 18 | Shultz and Weinberger opposed Poindexter 's plan , pointing out that it undermined America 's much-stated policy , usually made in conjunction with Mrs Thatcher , that no deals must be made with terrorists and that there could be no question of bargaining to get hostages released since this would inevitably lead to more abductions . |
| 19 | but he worked through and he managed to get out that it said appreciation |
| 20 | Stapleton let the Hound out and it chased Sir Henry |
| 21 | Media activity gives shape to the ill-defined contours of the political system : it brings new players and issues into the political arena , it leaves others out and it rearranges positions and placings . |
| 22 | The destroyer 's forward gun crew and mortarmen were all dead or wounded , her bow a cauldron of smoke and thermite fumes , even though the incendiary bomb was put out before it set fire to Campbeltown 's warhead of depth charges . |
| 23 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
| 24 | So it 's it appeals to the right brain that visual aspect it can take attention it can actually make the presenter move around when it switches attention what does that do for the audience then ? |
| 25 | Yet another , fortunately quite rare , follows you around when it sees secateurs in your hands and drops a few eggs into the soft pith of the stem when you make a cut , before the cut wound has had time to callus and heal itself — another reason why you should always try to confine cutting to a fine dry day . |
| 26 | r er Northampton and then finally I went to Rushden , and er this top one , , and his mate come out of the toilet , been for a smoke , and er walking by I said hey Les , look at this , and I spun the cam round and it went bang and stopped dead . |
| 27 | The group 's debt mountain is largely the result of massive borrowings taken on when it bought Coalite in 1989 . |
| 28 | Previous page : Greet visitors or intruders with a passive infra-red light , which comes on when it senses body heat at night . |