Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Is it using all its fins , and are these fins held out proudly from the body or clamped ?
2 Finally , the mix of pro-fascist and pro-democratic elements was an indication that , in international as in domestic affairs , Franco 's preferred tactic was to keep all his options open until it became clear which side was going to win .
3 His vigorous and provocative Unionist polemic against the importance of ‘ the constitutional question ’ is bracing , but it renders comical his charge that the SNP ‘ is a party of no compromise ’ .
4 It has all his hallmarks , Fran .
5 It transpired that his mother only had one leg . ’
6 It 's ha it happens all your life , the noise is there all the time
7 Creggan came out of his concrete shelter into his cage , the branch thrust right over it and on to the path in front , and smaller branches from it filling half his cage with confusion .
8 when was it built all them factories it was built in the seventies when the boom was in
9 As it happened all his discoveries went against the Peripatetic views , and as he advanced so the attacks on him grew , largely because the lesser ones among opponents saw their cosy lives of repetitions of dogma in danger .
10 Its tension caught the reader , there was an emotion in it , shared between him and them and it turned all his attention away from himself on to the subject matter he was speaking .
11 As soon as a domestic hen chick hatches it starts pecking at grains that look like food , and as it grows older its aim at food grains improves .
12 It gets all its nutrition , all its oxygen etcetera etcetera through the placenta from its mother 's circulation and the mother has no problem whatsoever in her body functions , right , otherwise she would be a mongrel , so the food is going straight into the baby , it 's like being drip fed , there 's no problem .
13 ‘ Well , it gets all its moisture from seeds and dew .
14 I mean that , that have to hold top and bottom , you put something in the soil and it gets all its nourishment in the soil and that
15 With regard to his consecration , the only controversial question which it raised concerned his relationship with the archbishop of York who consecrated him , and this will be discussed below in the context of the Primacy .
16 It takes all your colour , ’ she began hesitantly , ‘ and I know I hardly look as though I would know which colour went with what , or what suited whom … ’
17 Yet when her visitor stepped a couple of paces forward as though requiring a closer look , it needed all her courage not to back away .
18 All the people that I 've seen trying to do it have all my sympathy , because I know what they 've been going through .
19 Only this time it covered half his back . ’
20 He had a long-life lead on and I tried to grab the long-life lead it burnt all my hand and he tried to attack the pit bull .
21 It melts all your disk drive .
22 So now you club whose Fulham name Of legend , myth and fable , Should show it merits all its fame By shooting up the table .
23 Mr Wallace acknowledged that his own ideas for a Scottish parliamentary council were unlikely to proceed , but a campaign for a multi-option referendum was ‘ the only thing we can all unite on as it encompasses all our differences ’ .
24 For martial artists it mattered less what form you studied than that you made it a way of life .
25 And I tried to do a pattern but it sent all my eyes crazy counting these
26 ‘ No ! ’ she squeaked , thinking that , far from it taking all his charm , her willingness could be achieved with only a minimum of persuasion .
27 When they crested a wooded hill shortly before sunset and saw cultivated fields stretching down towards a small village in the distance it took all her will-power not to beg that they stop there for the night .
28 She watched him nervously and then he casually stretched up and removed his damp shirt so that it took all her powers , her resolutions , to appear composed in sight of his taut , powerful torso .
29 It took all her determination to stand her ground until finally he brushed past her .
30 The images his words had triggered were running riot in her brain , and it took all her strength to blot them out .
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