Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the ancient hill paintings the abstract pan does n't have any great meaning … the artists just hope it turns a few heads . |
| 2 | It passed a few minutes later . |
| 3 | Its real speed changes during the journey sometimes it is more than fifty miles per hour , sometimes less but in two hours it goes the same distance as it would if its speed was fifty miles per hour all the time . |
| 4 | Once she had turned the corner and the house was hidden from view , she jumped off her bike and pushed it through the maze of potholes that pitted the drive as it meandered the half mile to the main gates . |
| 5 | Though it involves a few minutes ' paperwork , a worthwhile exercise is to jot down your own personal list of pros and cons , under the headings : ‘ spending now ’ and ‘ spending later ’ . |
| 6 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 . ’ |
| 7 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 , ’ ( UX No 375 ) . |
| 8 | The muffled jangle of the bell disturbed her reverie , and she glanced up at the clock — it lacked a few minutes to three — her visitor was punctual as usual . |
| 9 | I did try on a couple of occasions to wind the engine up past the 5000rpm mark , where the torque curve begins to fall away rapidly , but it produced no more performance than was available by driving the car sensibly for economy . |
| 10 | Attempting to copy a decorative technique can confirm or disprove that it produces the same appearance and microstructure observed on the original item . |
| 11 | It met the same fate as its predecessors . |
| 12 | I ca n't reach it to perform the same trick as on Mait 's … . ’ |
| 13 | Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture . |
| 14 | Although not technically a fountain , it utilizes the same components as the conventional fountain . |
| 15 | It bounced a few yards ahead of the Hussars ' advance , then slammed into a wood where it tore and crashed through the thickly leaved branches . |
| 16 | " Well , " Graham said slowly , deciding he had better say something nice , " it 's good , but perhaps it needs a little work . " |
| 17 | The liquid is now officially called beer but it needs a few days further conditioning in the brewery , to purge some of the rough alcohols , before it is ready to leave for the pub . |
| 18 | I feel it needs a few points tidied up such as data entry checking , i.e. only allowing a maximum of 8 characters to be typed into a date field and being able to press Esc to return to menu at any time during data entry . |
| 19 | ‘ It needs a few gallons of hot soapy water too ! |
| 20 | Welsh rugby needed last year 's tour , with its half-century hammerings , as much as it needs the All Blacks here now . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , it does not succeed on limey soils but otherwise it needs the same conditions as the brunneras . |
| 22 | It needs the same level of professionalism in FISA in all the areas in which it is involved . |
| 23 | It needs the same heading allowance as pencil pleat tape — 1.5cm ( ½in ) . |
| 24 | Next to it stands the former bailiff 's castle which is now a historical museum housing several treasures , one of which has a link with America . |
| 25 | Unfortunately it crashed a few months later on a training mission in Scotland , when part of a Polish Squadron . |
| 26 | By far the most common escape mechanism for organisms ranging from bacteria to human beings is ‘ habituation ’ , a kind of behavioural boredom by which an animal becomes less responsive as it encounters the same stimulus repeatedly . |
| 27 | I 'll have a look and see if it 's the same publishers , cos it looks the same kind of format , but then again it probably would be cos it 's aimed at the same market |
| 28 | No , it looks the same shape somehow does n't it ? |
| 29 | It bore the same postmark and was again disguised as a video . |
| 30 | It has a former Friends of the Earth director as a policy adviser and it donates a penny to charity for every returned plastic carrier bag — two ways in which J. Sainsbury is setting out its stall as a leader on environmental issues . |