Example sentences of "and it [vb -s] some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
2 | Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences . |
3 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
4 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
5 | Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness . |
6 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
7 | And then , what they were wanting to get across , Hang on then , the reason why it 's put there is that most people are , are now acutely conscious of , of having too much fat , too much milk , too much this , that and the other , and it , and it grabs some people and it 's a legitimate way in . |
8 | Supposing a fitter leaves the oil plug out of the car , there 's a leak , the oil drains out of it and it causes some damage , but that damage does n't appear until a thousand/two thousand miles later , are you going to exclude that or cover it ? |
9 | The , the video does actually illustrate the way in which some of these services have been developed , and it includes some comments from people who are actually receiving services . |
10 | Taboo is a Polynesian word , and it means some kind of supernatural law or prohibition which you infringe at your supernatural peril . |