Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turns up as a footnote in every textbook and training manual . |
| 2 | A couple of hundred yards downstream it gushes out below a ceremonial arch into the Brigach . |
| 3 | May 20–26 has been designated ‘ One World ’ week by 18 national TV stations : it kicks off with a German production , The World In Our Hands , which highlights global issues from pollution to Third World debt , and ends with One World , One Voice , a two-hour musical chain letter masterminded by Kevin Godley and featuring 150 international musicians . |
| 4 | As soon as an assignment has been fully proofed it goes on to a list which is published every two months to all of the sales execs and you just look out for your number , all right ? and you 've got your own personal records of course , if you know you 've earned bonus then that 's where to claim it . |
| 5 | It goes on for a minute . |
| 6 | We put a match to ours and it goes up with a rocket-like roar , heating the yurt in a flash . |
| 7 | If you get through that you 've got to give the balloon a good hard squirt to make it burn , and if you do make it burn it goes up with a hell of a whoomph and you 've still got to get away . ’ |
| 8 | And when it goes down to a water hole to drink it crouches down and awkwardly sips with its mouth . |
| 9 | Before she is finally arrested , she shoots a number of them , and lobs a grenade into the wings , where it goes off with a loud report . |
| 10 | And it goes out in a blaze of colour — a spectacular firework display which starts at 6.45pm and goes on into the night . |
| 11 | It goes back for a hundred years or more . |
| 12 | And could we take this yellow one off we 'll find it fits in like a wall , like that look . |
| 13 | The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader . |
| 14 | The whole enterprise is carried through with panache and — apart from the fact that it clocks in at a rather miserly total of only 52 minutes — the disc can be thoroughly recommended to anyone who wants a well-chosen selection of G&S numbers . |
| 15 | Erm , where the , the authority , not just the County Council , but the authority in the partnership , get involved in lobbying exercises with the , with the government to try to ensure that rural post offices can actually give out vehicle licences , because it 's very , if you look in the north of the county , outside the towns there 's only four post offices , I think , that can actually give out vehicle licences , and yet in the rural areas , we have a lot of people with vehicles , and we , and the way that it counts towards , the way that it counts up towards a post office 's survival , it 's these high value items are significant in keeping post offices open . |
| 16 | Solid waste is different : unless it is burned or buried at sea , it lingers on as a visible souvenir . |
| 17 | Sometimes it loosens up with a |
| 18 | In Central America it stands out as a model of high quality provision drawn from a small resource base . |
| 19 | And he admitted : ‘ If keepers make a mistake it stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 20 | It stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 21 | Surrounded by coconut groves , it looks out over a large , open-air swimming pool onto an excellent sandy beach and the sea beyond . |
| 22 | It looks out over a peaceful rural landscape . |
| 23 | This — which several British critics have seen as a post-AIDS film — is postmodernist in its mixture of genres : it starts out as a straightforward melodrama and shifts into a horror or ‘ stalk and slash ’ genre . |
| 24 | It starts out with a familiar idea and then builds on it , making neater analogies and finer distinctions . |
| 25 | It starts off as a satire of Pennebaker 's Dylan doc Do n't Look Back and — cut to the pace of Roberts ' twangy crap folk songs — also attacks Saturday Night Live , rock ‘ n ’ roll , right-wingers , and stupid people . |
| 26 | In fact if you 'll if you look in here you you get a it starts off with a tour of er head office and all our facilities there . |
| 27 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 28 | Well I put me clothes out at twelve o'clock , I says to Linda if it holds out for a couple |
| 29 | It lives on as a reality which the poet seeks to ‘ revive within ’ him , to reconstruct the state of mind of the removed passion of the last four lines and the effortless delight of the first two stanzas . |
| 30 | It adds up to a picture of a man in a wider context that just as a fighter pilot . |