Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow I ca n't see it catching on in the way Play-Doh did . |
| 2 | You can also zero the counter at your end point on the tape , then rewind to the start point : when it plays up to 000 the machine stops the tape and rewinds to the beginning . |
| 3 | So the maximum is nine that people can hold on to and the thing about nine of course is it splits up into three threes and that 's why I say some people will group a twelve number into four threes or something like that or three fours because they 're all well within this span of conception . |
| 4 | Her voice echoed in the stairwell as she raised it to carry back to him . |
| 5 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 6 | She wanted it to go on for ever and ever ! |
| 7 | erm I voted for it to go out to consultation , but I have n't yet voted that it will be a site , and I will take the representations of everybody into consideration before I make up my mind . |
| 8 | We borrowed it to go out with . |
| 9 | You wanted it to go out in the summer |
| 10 | ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’ |
| 11 | I got sick of this , so I brought an old alarm clock and hung it around my neck and set it to go off at the moment he walked in one day . |
| 12 | Lock your door , set whatever device will rouse you at a definite time ( cooking-timer , flashing alarm clock , vibrator ) — set it to go off in eight minutes . |
| 13 | ‘ After all , I 'd hate it to go off by accident . ’ |
| 14 | No I 've never known it to go off before either . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As it rears up in self defence , it spreads its wide hood to reveal a massive pair of eye-spots . |
| 17 | It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan . |
| 18 | The only way round this conclusion is to suppose that instead of the chain of justification stretching away to infinity , it turns round on its tail and joins up with itself at some point , forming a circle . |
| 19 | It turns up as a footnote in every textbook and training manual . |
| 20 | Sound quality suffers without a sound card , but it turns up in the unlikeliest places . |
| 21 | Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 the NCC must offer a management agreement to any farmer on an SSSI whose application for an agricultural grant it turns down on conservation grounds . |
| 22 | and stuff like that and then he , then it cuts out , yeah , and then it , then it turns back on again and he says yes I think we 're working and flushes the toilet and walks out |
| 23 | I mean there was , there was a wonderful Times cartoon , I do n't know if you saw it , of Yeltsin showing all the troubles he , he could n't control his government , there were economic problems , people were being nasty to him apparently as he was saying how do we manage and it turns out of course at the end , the final kick line is he 's talking about John Major 's situation . |
| 24 | This work is described as a personal celebration of the mountains and landscapes of Nepal , but it turns out to be a pictorial account of six treks and climbs in the more popular areas of the country . |
| 25 | In nine cases out of ten it turns out to be the office cleaner 's milkman 's financial adviser . |
| 26 | And should an original and lovely ‘ Samuel Palmer ’ sketch or ‘ Vermeer ’ canvas be any less valued when it turns out to be by Tom Keating or Henricus van Meegaeren ? |
| 27 | They 're always about to reveal something important , then it turns out to be nothing . |
| 28 | It turns out to be a surprisingly exact science , in which ten or fifteen minutes are spent deliberating over whether someone deserves to be graded ‘ adequate ’ or ‘ limited ’ for their motivation or their ability to organize . |
| 29 | Fortunately it turns out to be impossible to give a simple answer to this question and possible to give a more complex answer allowing both possibilities . |
| 30 | They do n't have time to verify stuff , a lot of the time they just put it out and it turns out to be false . |