Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ed 's comment : While I agree with your comments in principle , Mr Huyton , it has to be said that Audrey Reid 's article in PFK also recommended shop or scrap glass but suggested getting it professionally cut to size . |
| 2 | Later , I gaze from the stern of the landing craft at the coast of Normandy , as it slowly slips from view , leaving me with the memory of those of the Brigade lying in shallow graves in the orchards and ditches of this part of France . |
| 3 | Labour has a long list of priorities : a £3 billion pledge on pensions — presumably health comes after that ; health presumably comes after Labour 's £1 billion recovery programme and it presumably comes after Labour 's £8 billion housing pledge . |
| 4 | We had notice of Sarah 's barrenness even before it properly got under way ( 11.30 ) . |
| 5 | After nearly two centuries of grinding corn , it eventually fell into disuse in the 1860s , at which time it housed the miller and his large family . |
| 6 | Though it was a thriving concern for several centuries it eventually fell into decline and finally out of existence with the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537 . |
| 7 | It was insured by the charity organiser Ruth Hilali , and when it apparently disappeared in transit , more than £100,000 was paid by insurers into charity funds at the Worcester branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 8 | It all does in fact make sense . ’ |
| 9 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 10 | It only came to light today . ’ |
| 11 | But the Red Army was larger than Western forces in Europe , war could break out ‘ by accident ’ ( through the failure to manage a diplomatic crisis properly ) and a US guarantee — even if it only existed on paper — could provide a major psychological boost to West European morale . |
| 12 | Although it only cost about eightpence ha'penny an ounce then . |
| 13 | It only remains for miniaturisation , integration and market demand to reach the point at which the various elements can be drawn together into a single commercially viable device . |
| 14 | But it only explodes into violence when it has been suppressed . |
| 15 | It only comes with experience and instinct for the personalities involved . ’ |
| 16 | But it only comes with practice , and it 's |
| 17 | These provide evidence that , if Spenser 's tract was not published before 1633 , it obviously circulated in manuscript . |
| 18 | I put on the dress and it suddenly came to life . |
| 19 | Engineers apart , there are no students who will ever manage to get it together to decide on pay . |
| 20 | It literally came to light by accident when it fell out of a bag — it was God 's will , I suppose . ’ |
| 21 | But then they came back and said it was changed to ‘ Everything We Do Is Driven By You ’ and my initial thought was ‘ Yuk , I do n't think I can do anything with that either , ’ because it just sounded like motor cars and I 'm not interested in singing songs about motor cars . |
| 22 | Someone just mentioned , yeah , it just sprang to mind , someone just mentioned er , the options on moving , if you , cos |
| 23 | it just felt like arthritis , it used to get really painful . |
| 24 | yeah , yeah , I did n't know what they were like at seventy two it just said on window on one of them shops on Baldwin Lane |
| 25 | And the , the water to bathe in came from the local river and er it was very very sandy and it just looked like mud that you were having to get in and do your bath . |
| 26 | Erm a park tends to give the impression of being like a memorial park , erm equally it 's not just earmarked for football , which is it could be er seen as just that , the idea was that it would provide facilities for all types of sports and interests throughout the er throughout the area , particularly er girls , I know girls play football but there 's a lot of interest in er sport particularly hockey , and I personally would n't like to see it just dominated by football . |
| 27 | on the close and it comes , it just comes with practise , get all |
| 28 | It 's morning and all that — it just looks like night . |
| 29 | To you it just looks like paper . |
| 30 | It just smelt like Christmas cake cooking , and I was n't cooking anything at all . |