Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | In places , it defies understanding to this day . |
| 2 | Except that it if it involved waiting in this corridor for much longer , one of the security cameras might start to register her despite all diversionary moves , and she should therefore now take a break of at least six hours before coming back here . |
| 3 | But IBM immediately realized it faced a possible unexpected success , redesigned what was basically Univac 's machine for such mundane applications as payroll , and within five years became the leader in the computer industry , a position it has maintained to this day . |
| 4 | Although the executives of the rugby club were in favour of the earlier offer , the cricket club committee was firmly against it a stand it has maintained to this day . |
| 5 | take proceedings at its own expense and for its own benefit , but in your name , or in the name of anyone else insured by this policy , to recover any payment it has made under this policy |
| 6 | take proceedings at its own expense and for its own benefit , but in your name , or in the name of anyone else insured by this policy , to recover any payment it has made under this policy |
| 7 | But still the habit of flying north for the summer persisted among the birds and it has remained to this day , even though the journey is no longer a few miles , but several hundred . |
| 8 | Although the board paid an interim dividend of 0.65 pence , it has decided at this stage to invest its funds in the business — the amount available , says chairman Rupert Bayfield , would have been negligible anyway . |
| 9 | ‘ It is jolly sad that it has come to this but I am not surprised , ’ she said last night . |
| 10 | Unlike the state monopoly telecommunications business which has tended to stay that way , the semiconductor chip business started out with United States commercial dominance ; it has continued on this pattern , with the one major change that in the 1980S the multinational companies dominating the world chip business ceased to be predominantly American and became a combination of Japanese and United States companies . |
| 11 | Barry and me had an almost mystical rapport when it came to stuff like this . |
| 12 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Did it have to come to this ? |
| 14 | It seems to follow from this that ( 1 ) in the case of a company , the receipt should be signed on behalf of the company by a person authorised , ( 2 ) in the case of a partnership , it should be signed by a partner who would either adhibit the firm 's signature or his own , and ( 3 ) in the case of an individual superior , the individual in question should sign . |
| 15 | It looked mishapen in this light , almost as if something was eating away at it . |
| 16 | Sh , sh , and it continues to go through this , and I say , you can see , it 's very , very comprehensive , and very , very detailed . |
| 17 | They were alone with the silently hurtling river and the great , gross wound it had made in this bank , curls of dark-red soil peeled back and rolling downhill , and a tangle of uprooted broom bushes . |
| 18 | Yes , it had to do with this old life of mine . |
| 19 | The road he followed marked the seasonal migration of sheep from the treeless limestone plateau further inland to the watered valleys around ; it had led across this terrain since the Romans had farmed there . |
| 20 | Now it had come to this , the repomen at the door for the second time . |
| 21 | What had she got to lose , she seemed to be saying , now that it had come to this ? |
| 22 | Ah this was really just Yona and and me you know I mean Yona obviously felt very strongly about her father standing in the rain on the picket line worked hard all his life an it had come to this really being sacked er they were just newly sacked then . |
| 23 | It had to come to this , he wrote . |
| 24 | It had smelled like this soap today , a light , entirely distinctive smell , a little like — what flower ? |
| 25 | The loss of her family , the futile years of servitude , even Edmund 's death — none of it had hurt like this . |
| 26 | A Swapo representative , Mr Harmut Ruppel , announced on Wednesday that it had agreed to this , but acknowledged that this was in exchange for an executive president . |
| 27 | I do n't think it does matter in this case . |
| 28 | This does not give irrefutable evidence of the participation of the oxycarbonyl unit but it does point in this direction . |
| 29 | Coming in at all , so that 's , that is n't easy , but it , eh were it works it 's really good I mean for example we , we d o up the Poll Tax enforcement policy , erm and again it was where the Cou I mean if the Council had followed the legislation on Poll Tax collection , it 's you know , erm and it did n't want to do that , and so again well , it 's , well it 's related to this legislation bit , but we looked at , we looked at how we could get round that legal procedure and we looked at developing a more sensitive policy and we had to do that with other departments . |
| 30 | cos er gone in er , it 's gone in this week , but er |