Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As it rears up in self defence , it spreads its wide hood to reveal a massive pair of eye-spots . |
| 6 | It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It turns up as a footnote in every textbook and training manual . |
| 9 | Sound quality suffers without a sound card , but it turns up in the unlikeliest places . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In nine cases out of ten it turns out to be the office cleaner 's milkman 's financial adviser . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | They 're always about to reveal something important , then it turns out to be nothing . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Do n't worry if it turns out to be a false alarm — it 's always better to be safe than sorry . |
| 21 | It turns out to be no picture after all , but the image of a worm-eaten corpse . |
| 22 | It turns out to be convenient to put ( 10.9 ) where ψ and λ are considered as time-like and space-like coordinates , which may then be rescaled by putting , . |
| 23 | It turns out to be convenient to make the coordinate transformation . |
| 24 | But no , I do not want to take the chance myself in case it turns out to be a family weakness . |
| 25 | Despite the rather fearsome appearance of the route from below , it turns out to be pleasantly mild mannered , the slabby right wall of the groove allowing sneaky side-stepping of all major difficulties . |
| 26 | ‘ But I 'm too hungry to think about it , so let's eat it first , and then if it turns out to be wrong to eat it , I promise to be very sorry . ’ |
| 27 | It 's opening leads one to expect a knowing , ‘ insider ’ political novel , but it turns out to be the story of a destructive sexual passion , complete with purple passages , the saga of a successful man who becomes obsessed with his son 's mistress , who is only too willing to oblige . |
| 28 | The nine stages of gestation of the unit will take a variable length of time depending on whether it turns out to be an " elephant " or a " mouse " . |
| 29 | There are arguments about what is " the best " , and how far one goes in meeting present taste before developing it ; there are arguments about paternalism and mandarin or upper-class standards ; but no children 's librarian would accept a purely passive supply function ; all would agree that one hopes to provide opportunities for wider exploration and the growth of informed taste , whatever it turns out to be . |
| 30 | I , I have a quandary here cos I 'm not quite sure whether I should be asking a question or proposing something against the deliverance but I have attended and er listened to a number of debates arising out of this matter of er the baptism of children and time and again it 's struck me that it starts off about baptism but it turns out to be a discussion about the parents . |