Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It horrified Brian to think of Celia hypnotised by some guru who would try to drag things out of her which might not even have been correct . |
| 2 | If so , beekeepers will have to learn how to control it using technics followed by Continental beekeepers . ’ |
| 3 | They obtained it using observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Ultraviolet Explorer ( IUE ) satellite . |
| 4 | In the light of our results , we believe that the best clinical approach for an acute diagnosis of a Barrett 's oesophagus is the combination of endoscopic and manometric studies ; but how accurate is it to compare distances measured by manometry from distances measured by endoscopy ? |
| 5 | Page 26 Next tumbles : Next 's pre-tax profits nearly halved to £16.2m at the halfway stage as it revealed problems rooted in overexpansion and poor merchandising . |
| 6 | ‘ We used it to heal sword cuts in the Holy Land , ’ he said . |
| 7 | In a statement issued on March 28 the Mongolian Foreign Ministry announced that it expected Russia to abide by a March 1990 Soviet-Mongolian agreement which stipulated that all Soviet troops would withdraw from Mongolia by Aug. 30 , 1992 [ see p. 37318 ] . |
| 8 | From here it goes east to pass to the north of Cawston before arriving in Aylesham . |
| 9 | We , ah in school we all got , we all sing this song it goes Jennifer sat in the , Jennifer sat , sat in the shower , eating |
| 10 | Willis Faber is holding back almost half the shares until it receives shareholder backing for the sale at a meeting on November 29 . |
| 11 | The funds made available through the Farm and Horticultural Development Scheme will be a sound national investment but does it make sense to embark on a programme with a possibility that perhaps after six years the land might be allocated to forestry ? |
| 12 | It made £41.7m compared with £32.5m in 1990 and is increasing its total dividend payout to 56.4p per share from 47p . |
| 13 | Delightful scene ; it made Elizabeth think of Turgenev . |
| 14 | The way he said it made Sally feel like a parcel for delivery . |
| 15 | It made Patrick cringe of course , but the inevitable comparison with his brother was high on the agenda when , clutching his share of the £45,000 winners ' cheque and £15,000 for finishing eighth in the Nabisco points table , he walked into the interview room . |
| 16 | For some reason it made Maggie think of silent music , each flicker a celestial note . |
| 17 | It made Lydia go to sleep in the afternoon too , which was why she did it . |
| 18 | We never heard the last from Mum about God 's bounty from the vegetable garden ; it made Dad seem like some kind of honorary clergyman . |
| 19 | Her hair had been flattened by the storm so that it made Trent think of a squashed astrakan hat . |
| 20 | Perhaps under the circumstances it made sense to remain in the one place . |
| 21 | During the 18 years they had lived in Sion House in Tunbridge Wells they had grown accustomed to its neo-classical spaciousness , but since two of their four children had married and left home it made sense to move to somewhere smaller . |
| 22 | It made sense to work with companies such as Albright and Wilson , Sterling Organics , Dow Corning , FMC , Procter and Gamble , Kodak and numerous others because they do a high volume of business with C&P , are open to this approach and because ‘ we believe they are tomorrow 's winners , ’ said Anthony . |
| 23 | We may be dealing with an energy currently unknown to science , but it made sense to start by monitoring known energies . |
| 24 | It made Alyssia feel like a charity case . |
| 25 | It made Britta feel like a child . |
| 26 | As one of the group put it : ‘ It made people think about what they wanted to do for the whole year . ’ |
| 27 | It made Claudia stare for a moment , but she was too concerned with the man who had forced her here to worry about other people 's bad taste . |
| 28 | ‘ Say Markham is paying Wheeler or Wheeler is paying Markham for services rendered and say Paul was implicated either way , might not Rosamund know about it , if it involved money going into or out of any of Wheeler 's accounts ? ’ |
| 29 | She would stab him to death if he dared bring that hideous hag in here , even if it involved blood spurting over the recently redecorated ceiling . |
| 30 | It overtook full-service factoring as the most significant activity in 1989 and has remained in the lead ever since . |