Example sentences of "it [verb] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lying next to it is a Wand of Fear which extracts a special cost for use : if a spellcaster picks it up , it drains one point of T permanently from that spellcaster and is then attuned to him , and will function normally . |
| 2 | So by controlling the concentration of the reagents that will affect which way it goes and a lot of them are temperature sensitive , we heat it up it goes one way , cool it down it goes the other . |
| 3 | It is no surprise to discover its presence , since it must surely belong to a very early stage in the mental development of the human species ; indeed insofar as it represents one aspect of the principle of treating like as like , it can be seen as common perceptual property for all sentient organisms . |
| 4 | A reverse takeover offer is , at first sight , curious , because it involves one company taking over another company with much larger resources . |
| 5 | In recent weeks it sold one Ford franchise for £8m and bought another for £6m . |
| 6 | His private life centred on a happy marriage , ‘ steady as an ocean liner ’ in his biographer 's phrase , to a childhood friend ; it produced one daughter . |
| 7 | It made one manufacturing company re-order its priorities substantially . |
| 8 | It involved one prisoner who was recaptured soon afterwards . |
| 9 | The following two clauses come from Lincoln CAB 's code of practice and it illustrates one approach to the demarcation of responsibilities within a psychiatric hospital : |
| 10 | It has one activity which must make Winterthur the envy of other musical centres . |
| 11 | It has one Chief Constable , two Deputy Chief Constables , two Senior Assistant Chief Constables , nine Assistant Chief Constables , 44 Chief Superintendents , 122 Superintendents , 161 Chief Inspectors , 483 Inspectors , 1385 sergeants and 8928 constables . |
| 12 | It has one woman character , and she is there qua mother . |
| 13 | East Allegheny displays the most glaring disparity as , whilst it contains one quarter of all North Side dwellings , total investment represents around one eighth of all North Side loans made . |
| 14 | ‘ Anyway , I really ca n't see that it matters one way or the other what I think , ’ Alison said . |
| 15 | A future bishop , Launcelot Fleming , went to the lectures and was enthralled ; but the class ran a sweepstake ; if Hoskyns said theme it scored one mark , if he said ultimate theme it scored ten marks . |
| 16 | It loses one unit of energy for each step of its walk . |
| 17 | Seem to be almost anywhere except on over the page at the top , where it says one point four , and that was er , local authority fire brigade , other than that |
| 18 | Are you sure it says one point five quarts ? |
| 19 | And then it fills one side up then . |
| 20 | It happened one day when I ran out of petrol and this girl came along . |
| 21 | It happened one day that the master went away upon his business . ) |
| 22 | • Clark Gable , on the other hand , caused vest sales to drop drastically when he took off his shirt in ‘ It Happened One Night ’ , to reveal a completely bare torso . |
| 23 | It happened one night when Derek and I were down there . |
| 24 | It is interesting to compare Ferguson 's reaction to Vidor 's film with his reaction at much the same time to the newly released It Happened One Night , which Frank Capra had directed for Columbia . |
| 25 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 26 | More than any other film , It Happened One Night had pointed the way forward , but , greatly to the surprise of many critics , problem films kept on appearing . |
| 27 | to where it evaporates one step from the bottom , |
| 28 | which er it costs one pound something for the insurance . |
| 29 | Having done that , it reaches one leg across to its equivalent on the other side , removes the accumulated pollen from the comb with a stiff brush that sprouts from the end of the leg and transfers it into a deep bowl lying on the outer surface of the opposite thigh . |
| 30 | My tape recorder used to load practically every game I bought , but now I 'm lucky if it loads one game a week ! |