Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles took up watercolour painting nearly twenty years ago , and it has become one of his greatest pleasures . |
| 2 | As a result , it has become one of the great monuments of the world and a national symbol , like the Eiffel Tower , the Statue of Liberty and the Great Wall of China . |
| 3 | IT HAS BECOME one of the clichés of political debate that a concern for conservation is a new — and therefore probably transient — phenomenon and in addition that it is the hobby of an élite determined to fight against the inevitable overriding dictates of modern economic growth . |
| 4 | It has become one of the basic and seminal texts in the sociological study of this topic . |
| 5 | But it has become one of the big post-war economic success stories , with one of the world 's most open trading systems and a business environment not far behind Switzerland , Japan and west Germany . |
| 6 | In recent years , however , the world sugar prices have slumped and it has become one of the poorest areas in the Philippines . |
| 7 | It has left one of my downstairs windows stranded next door with a Cyclopean view of the neighbours , occasional week-enders , sun-bathing on their colourful suites of beach furniture . |
| 8 | Or was it going to prove one of those motiveless crimes that strangely surfaced every now and then ? |
| 9 | And in fact the greater the difference is , the less easy does it become to dismiss one of the differing parties as a mere inadequate version of the other . |
| 10 | A telephone call is all it takes to summon one of our team of experts to your doorstep . |
| 11 | The prosecution alleges that , to justify the shooting , the soldiers said they opened fire on a stolen car after it had struck one of their patrol . |
| 12 | I bit the shell of one and gave the kernel to her , and then bit another and pretended it had broken one of my teeth and I was in too much pain . ’ |
| 13 | The Collector sat on an oak throne which had been chipped out of the mud rampart for fuel , but had not yet been used , though it had lost one of its front legs . |
| 14 | Soon it had become one of the main topics of conversation . |
| 15 | By 1915 it had become one of the obsessions by which Curtis was possessed serially in the course of his long and active career , and , of all his many projects , the political evolution of India was the one where he could most truly claim to have made a direct contribution to events . |
| 16 | He 'd once walked out , in a sixteen-year-old child 's sulk , on a family dinner-party , and his father had always chided him about it — it had become one of those family memories that everyone always laughs at , always shares . |
| 17 | By this time it had become one of the principal Manchester manufacturers of engines and boilers , with a considerable export trade to Russia and India ; up to 1866 it had built over 1,800 boilers and about 200 engines since starting in business in 1835 . |
| 18 | It had entered one of the tents , but a moment later emerged and raced at Tallis , light reflecting in dull eyes . |
| 19 | It had rejoiced , as alien coteries naturally do , in its own intellectual isolation ; and in disdaining narrative , or at least fast-paced narrative , it had disavowed one of the native strengths of the tradition . |
| 20 | In fact , i it does suggest one of these other types of these isomerism depends how you view a functional group . |
| 21 | This is almost certainly not the case and does Canberra a grave disservice , though it does illustrate one of the problems behind the fixture . |
| 22 | Observe that the process is free to execute any of the corresponding SKIP guards ( unc and can only deadlock if it does execute one of these guards . |
| 23 | ‘ And it does have one of the worst disciplinary records , too . ’ |
| 24 | This column is genuinely not written with a sense of criticism , but I believe it does demonstrate one of the problems that is at the very heart of British tennis — lack of a sense of vision , a sense of belief and a passionate desire to achieve at the very highest echelons of the world game and not to be content to make a comfortable living in a relatively small pond . |
| 25 | It 's become one of the most famous brands in the world . |
| 26 | So what kind of people live here that we what 's what 's made it go you you said that it 's got one of the s what are the kind of things that go on now , that wo did n't go on before ? |
| 27 | it 's got er , it 's got one of them white things with a black line on it I 'm sure |
| 28 | It 's got one of those kind of belts with that |
| 29 | Yes , cos he 's got one of those erm , oh dear what 's it called , it 's got a big thing tube and stuff and it 's got one of those erm bits round the outside it goes on what do you call those er , and you , you squeeze it do n't you |
| 30 | er , I suppose it 's got one of those R buttons on |