Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 2 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 3 | It turns up as a footnote in every textbook and training manual . |
| 4 | Sound quality suffers without a sound card , but it turns up in the unlikeliest places . |
| 5 | It turns out in the end that , that , all the readings were in there it 's just a matter locating them ! |
| 6 | A couple of hundred yards downstream it gushes out below a ceremonial arch into the Brigach . |
| 7 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
| 8 | May 20–26 has been designated ‘ One World ’ week by 18 national TV stations : it kicks off with a German production , The World In Our Hands , which highlights global issues from pollution to Third World debt , and ends with One World , One Voice , a two-hour musical chain letter masterminded by Kevin Godley and featuring 150 international musicians . |
| 9 | February is Pocket Books ' launch month and , although not the biggest Giant of the Month , it kicks off with the new Virginia Andrews ™ , Dawn . |
| 10 | and then it goes through to the back , now his , although it looks |
| 11 | Oh it will change again as soon as it goes round to the , to the three four one again er y you do n't see it changing it but |
| 12 | As soon as an assignment has been fully proofed it goes on to a list which is published every two months to all of the sales execs and you just look out for your number , all right ? and you 've got your own personal records of course , if you know you 've earned bonus then that 's where to claim it . |
| 13 | Well it 's a bit like that but instead of making it go round all the church it goes on to the tape . |
| 14 | But , you know they can pick it and er , it just flashes up and they have to put the right answer in , if they get the right answer it it goes on to the next one , if it |
| 15 | It goes on to the erm . |
| 16 | Our own sauces , or whatever , erm , if my mother makes a cake , it goes on to the top shelf , but usually we just use everything . |
| 17 | It goes on for a minute . |
| 18 | It 's almost sad , and it goes up at the end . |
| 19 | We put a match to ours and it goes up with a rocket-like roar , heating the yurt in a flash . |
| 20 | If you get through that you 've got to give the balloon a good hard squirt to make it burn , and if you do make it burn it goes up with a hell of a whoomph and you 've still got to get away . ’ |
| 21 | After that , it goes up with the biggest bang this side of the Manhattan Project . ’ |
| 22 | Once a Bill has passed its Commons ' stage it goes up to the House of Lords where the same process is repeated , except that the Committee stage is taken on the floor of the House . |
| 23 | Now I , I often gives in , in schools , and I particularly show that slide because as you can see it goes up to the year twenty forty er now I shall be a hundred and four in the year twenty forty I wo n't ask you to calculate what age you will be in the year twenty forty it might be quite large erm |
| 24 | And when it goes down to a water hole to drink it crouches down and awkwardly sips with its mouth . |
| 25 | It goes down to the throat with redness and swelling , enlarged tonsils , hot head , congested face , heavy limbs , a gradual onset . |
| 26 | Local legend states that when it hears the church clock strike twelve it goes down to the River Avon to drink . |
| 27 | And get the letter all brailled and everything so it goes down to the |
| 28 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 29 | You can see there 's been a wee bit of damage to that ligament just where it goes down over the top of that bone . |
| 30 | The philosophy that if it goes down in the US it must be going up in Europe has meant that Smurfit is looking to Europe as its main engine for growth in the months to come , when it must decide how to spend the $1bn cash raised from the recent financial restructuring with Morgan Stanley . |