Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides letting the mix stay hot longer , the job of adding water to a 170o pot until it stopped steaming would take several hours , says Moeri . |
| 2 | Tulip expects the reorganisation measures it has implemented will trim its costs significantly , with 92 of the 420 Dutch staff being laid off . |
| 3 | So much for the paperless office : Microsoft Corp claims that , stacked up , the manuals for the 100m copies of MD-DOS it has sold would reach to the moon and back — 10 times . |
| 4 | A cat may approach its human owner and purposely make a nuisance of itself in a way that it has learnt will cause anger . |
| 5 | Intel Corp has put off first deliveries of the P5 microprocessor to the first quarter of next year from the fourth quarter this year , but says that the move has not affected progress on the follow-on P6 , which it had said would start sampling as soon as the fourth quarter of next year , suggesting it will come very hot on the heels of the P5 . |
| 6 | The civilian contra leaders deprived of their posts in the reorganization described the move as a coup , and the 54-member RN assembly maintained that the original seven-member directorate which it had appointed should remain in charge of political decisions . |
| 7 | And finally Oxford Cheetah speedway stars have made a taped message which it 's hoped will bring a little boy out of a coma . |