Example sentences of "it 's [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment it 's pointing at this one two three directory , back-slash P back-slash one two three Now you point at the root directory |
| 2 | Which means , as we 've already remarked , that it 's caused by some combination of desire and belief : in this case , by Pooh 's desire , not just for honey , but to get a true belief about whether what 's in the pot is honey , and his belief that the way to get that true belief is to taste what 's in the pot . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's destined for recreational use , ’ Dwayne says . |
| 4 | It 's flattering after 15 years of marriage , to know that he 's in a lather of anticipation about undressing his wife . |
| 5 | A couple whose cottage garden is so spectacular that it 's visited by two thousand people a year are about to move house . |
| 6 | If we must have a past , then let's be sure it 's molested with this kind of amusement ! |
| 7 | ‘ It 's connected to all major stations throughout the city . ’ |
| 8 | It arrives in Turkey from Pakistan and then it 's hidden in secret compartments in lorries . |
| 9 | It 's played on smaller courts using light plastic rackets and foam balls , so very young children can join in . |
| 10 | It 's named after nearby Frying Pan Woods … the points represent the sparks of flame . |
| 11 | It 's now available in colours , the first time it 's altered in 102 years . |
| 12 | It 's getting towards that time of year when you want to make plenty of garments and the faster the better . |
| 13 | This may look like a minute , but it 's not a minute , and it 's getting less one with every line . |
| 14 | You get the feeling that BMW likes the attention it 's getting in this area — plenty of supercar glory by association without getting its environmentally friendly hands dirty . |
| 15 | It 's getting like that in Manchester — I was brought up not to stare but they stare at you , these workmen . |
| 16 | It 's filtered with four powerheads running undergravels , a wet and dry gravity-fed trickle filter , and two external power filters . |
| 17 | Erm all that sort of leads me back to where I started from , our perception of this survey is that it 's encouraging in the sense that it suggests that the recovery in the economy is erm widening and deepening if you like , it 's widening in the sense that it 's spreading to all the mainland regions of the U K and it 's deepening in the sense that erm firstly , although there are regional variations within this , it 's clearly not purely an export story and it 's not purely a domestic story , it 's a mixture of the two which gives us some reassurance erm it 's also deepening in the sense that there 's no evidence from the survey of anything which is likely to trip up the recovery in the short term , and remember that most of these er questions relate to the next four months , not all of them , but mo most of them relate to the next four months so one does n't want to extrapolate too far forward but nevertheless if you look at erm er most obviously sort of the the crisis and the inflation questions , if you look at er |
| 18 | Though it 's dotted with snappy slogans , the whole thing is less slangy than before , and is best described as cyberpunk prose poetry . |
| 19 | It 's made of easy-care 100% acrylic that you can machine wash ( 40°C cycle ) . |
| 20 | It 's made of firm plastic with an easy-to-grip handle and costs only £9.99 , plus £1 p&p . |
| 21 | It 's made of red plastic , and there 's something familiar about it which he ca n't quite identify ; something about the feel of its grained texture , and of the shiny red popper button on the flap … |
| 22 | It 's made of coloured paper , silver beads , bells and cloth birds on a wooden frame . |
| 23 | But with the parson , the youngsters do a half day in the mill and a half day at his school , an' you would n't believe the difference it 's made to those little 'uns . |
| 24 | We would n't turn it down because it 's made from new materials Indeed we welcome the use of such material in the countryside |
| 25 | It 's made from one piece of mahogany , with no extra bits making up the headstock or heel , and it 's a superb piece of work . |
| 26 | It 's made from skimmed cow 's milk and vegetable and animal fats and is fortified with important vitamins and minerals . |
| 27 | We said they could n't have the corpse if we did n't get it — that 's by the by — but it 's understood by both sides that this is the last of such meetings . |
| 28 | It 's appeared in several films about the mafia and carried a whole host of corsed actors . |
| 29 | ‘ At home you hardly know whether it 's raining from one day to the next but here you feel better every time the sun comes out . |
| 30 | 12 cm long , it 's covered in Celtic style animal engravings in silver . |