Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Break it to go round a planting bed , make a circle on which to stand a large plant pot or statue , or to give a paved area around a rotary clothes dryer . |
| 2 | His Dad kept it hanging on a nail in the shed and he 'd have noticed right away if it was missing . |
| 3 | Everyone is aware of the sensation experienced in a lift as it starts to descend , and in a car when it goes over a humped-back bridge . |
| 4 | It goes on a lot better than Amy 's . |
| 5 | It goes down a treat at family do 's . ) |
| 6 | It loops it goes down a bit . |
| 7 | As far as most women are concerned the only enviable thing about a penis is the ability it confers on the owner to pee out of a coach window as it powers along a motorway when the bladder feels like bursting and the driver refuses to stop . |
| 8 | It ruled out a reduction in pensionable age for men because it would cost too much — and opted for 65 for both sexes . |
| 9 | Kingfisher 's bid comes little more than three years after it fought off a £1.8billion takeover attempt by Dixons . |
| 10 | There was a flurry of excitement in 1975 when it fought off a bid from General Electric of America . |
| 11 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 12 | Over the summer it builds up a surplus of fat and as autumn draws on it returns to an underground burrow . |
| 13 | By drawing together a variety of material , it builds up a picture of inequity which ‘ is inexcusable in a democratic society which prides itself on being humane ’ . |
| 14 | When the team trusts itself it builds up a view not simply about the one school and what needs to be done in small detail but also about the pressures and demands of society as a whole . |
| 15 | Outside a car revved up its engine as it changed up a gear only to screech to a halt at the corner and roar off again . |
| 16 | the same sort of thing that Noel bought last year when he saw one of the men in the village , using it to pull out a lot of weed from undergrowth , really |
| 17 | Mr Samson , in the Barnard Castle-based 223 Field Ambulance Unit , threw a grenade from a trench but it bounced off a wall , rolled back and exploded just six feet away . |
| 18 | I bought a pair of contact lenses more than two years ago , and from the start the left lens never felt comfortable in my eye ; it moved around a lot . |
| 19 | ‘ It stands out a mile ; she never was much of an actress , ’ he drawled . |
| 20 | Oh god it stands out a mile , quite a good photo , it looks as though he just about |
| 21 | Their meeting with Dr Clifford Dobell , an authority on intestinal amoebae and later author of Anton van Leeuwenhoek and his Little Animals ( 1932 ) , was particularly fruitful in one respect , because it triggered off a discussion afterwards about honesty and bribery in science . |
| 22 | I 'd like to get it sorted out a bit for him really before the summer starts |
| 23 | It heads up a pop promotion with a wonderful shout line : A-WOP-BOP-A-SIDGWICK-A-LOP-BAM-PAN ! ! |
| 24 | It holds out a challenge . |
| 25 | Do you think it holds out a ray of hope among the problems which perplex us all so sorely today ? ’ |
| 26 | Er it speeds up a reaction , it is n't used in the reaction , it just speeds it up . |
| 27 | I had it turned up a bit too loud . |
| 28 | It bounces off a back rib and exits through Pauline 's back . |
| 29 | This command tells it to set up a storage area called Employees and to allocate space for Employee Number , Name , Department and any other items specified . |
| 30 | As it passes over a toll point in the road ( essentially a wire loop buried in the surface ) a radio beam from the loop will interrogate the number plate and feed back the vehicle number to a central computer . |