Example sentences of "and it [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
| 2 | Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences . |
| 3 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
| 4 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 5 | Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness . |
| 6 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 7 | It was not quite what she envisaged for herself but it had the advantage of being cheap and it went some way towards satisfying Grace , who was convinced that London was a den of iniquity waiting to swallow up her unsuspecting daughter . |
| 8 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 9 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 10 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |
| 11 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 12 | And then , what they were wanting to get across , Hang on then , the reason why it 's put there is that most people are , are now acutely conscious of , of having too much fat , too much milk , too much this , that and the other , and it , and it grabs some people and it 's a legitimate way in . |
| 13 | Both small-town stations and large city stations proved amenable to this treatment , and it had some influence in Canada , but still the picturesque could not be stopped in its tracks . |
| 14 | I still think his essay , far from being ‘ a rather feeble piece of writing ’ , to be a powerful piece of advocacy ; and it contained some remarks about culture and religious observance for which in penetration and acuteness I can recall no exact parallel . |
| 15 | This appointment was apparently predetermined , and it caused some offence in the profession . |
| 16 | Ramsay made a swift decision — and it demanded some resolution , since it would entail cost . |
| 17 | Supposing a fitter leaves the oil plug out of the car , there 's a leak , the oil drains out of it and it causes some damage , but that damage does n't appear until a thousand/two thousand miles later , are you going to exclude that or cover it ? |
| 18 | The , the video does actually illustrate the way in which some of these services have been developed , and it includes some comments from people who are actually receiving services . |
| 19 | And it gained some notoriety for obduracy on female sufferance while the rest of the developed world was gradually seeing sense . |
| 20 | Taboo is a Polynesian word , and it means some kind of supernatural law or prohibition which you infringe at your supernatural peril . |