Example sentences of "it [verb] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have any spare cash , use it to invest in a tapwater prefilter , such as the Nitragon and increase your water changes to 15% every fortnight . |
| 2 | Its working was rather fitful and it failed in a couple of astounding thunderstorms they had . |
| 3 | The population of Britain was to rise from between seven and eight million in 1760 to 15 million in 1820 — in other words , it doubled in a period of 60 years . |
| 4 | The earth is trying to move on a straight line through space-time , but the curvature of space-time produced by the mass of the sun causes it to go in a circle around the sun . |
| 5 | Erm if my reading of Locke erm differs from that of most of my erm fellow historians and political thought erm it differs in a matter of emphasis . |
| 6 | It passed in a flash of man-made , unnatural colour , glittering here and there and brighter than a winter holly tree . |
| 7 | room 's only about eleven and a half , because you get the back room , the front room and then it goes in a bit |
| 8 | The Primarch 's dead limbs were momentarily restored , all be it clad in a semblance of translucent rotting tissue . |
| 9 | She allowed it to fall in a circle around her feet , and slipped her khaki shirt off over her head . |
| 10 | This could be I do n't think acid spends itself as it sits in a bottle does it ? |
| 11 | It sits in a hollow of the steep western slope of the Wolds , and the slopes above the village are the location of the largest known pagan Anglian burial grounds north of the Humber . |
| 12 | No it fits in a case . |
| 13 | The crossing had a vital role to play in the economic regeneration of the region , it argued in a statement , and controversy over the Oxleas link should not delay construction of the bridge itself . |
| 14 | Such a realization may have been fuelled by my existing knowledge of mythology ( though it is not detailed in this respect ) , but it arose in a form that conveyed more in two seconds than two hours of normal thought could produce . |
| 15 | America gives Israel more than $2 billion a year to help it survive in a region where all its Arab neighbours , bar only Egypt , reject it . |
| 16 | It lies in a quarter of an acre of secluded garden in the delightful village of Rockbourne . |
| 17 | Accordingly , to deal with this situation , the Act provides that an ‘ action lies in conversion for loss or destruction of goods which a bailee has allowed to happen in breach of his duty to his bailor ( that is to say it lies in a case which is not otherwise conversion , but would have been detinue before detinue was abolished ) . ’ |
| 18 | Now it lies in a parish councillor 's front garden . |
| 19 | When one of the party , a Mrs Samuels , died on the trip , Cook diplomatically disguised the fact from the Arabs and , pretending that she was ill , packed up her body and had it carried in a palanquin until a suitable burial could be arranged . |
| 20 | The HNV bait idea is without doubt valid simply on the basis that it is logical to give a carp everything it needs in a bait . |
| 21 | It stands in a 9-acre Country Park . |
| 22 | This is because it stands in a position closer to totally autonomous behaviour ( at the top ) than the others . |
| 23 | It stands in a field completely cut off from human habitation . |
| 24 | It stands in a group of four renovated farm buildings and is screened from the tiny road by unkempt trees . |
| 25 | It crashed in a fireball early on Sunday evening , as many people settled down to watch television . |
| 26 | Thus it nestles in a hollow with the Wolds rising to the north . |
| 27 | Equally weird is it to lecture in a school with no lamps ( as happened at Port Charlotte ) . |
| 28 | Now we 're obviously even split two in each three so aggressive group So remember want it to work in a group that a normal style so volunteers for groups ? |
| 29 | They journeyed through the Andes , the rocky landscape repelling the staff until it sank in a valley in the centre of the earth . |
| 30 | Well I suppose it has in a sense , yes , it 's enabled us to both confront the fact that that I 'm not all knowing and that I 'm not all powerful , which I mean was because my children , as I say , are still quite young , which is something new for them , I suppose , as well as something new for me . |