Example sentences of "something it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paula might look as if butter would n't melt in her mouth but when her mind was made up to something it took a stronger woman than Grace to talk her out of it . |
| 2 | Are , then , cell signals instructive in that they tell the cell something it does not already know ? |
| 3 | All you can really do is construct something that will divert it or block its way for a while ; persuade it to do something it does n't really want to do . |
| 4 | and then somebody else has it , so it 's sort of once a month or something it turns up and they have sort of an extensive thing on it , I think that 's the way it works . |
| 5 | When you breathe something it goes up into your your brain here , what they call the olfactory bulb up here , and this is right near the memory . |
| 6 | Okay the engine is pushing as hard it can to try and , like a lot of people running behind leaning on this car pushing it forward , and why , why is n't it going f usually if you keep pushing something it goes faster and faster . |
| 7 | If I cough or something it goes quite for a little while then comes back again . |
| 8 | Sequent has already dipped its toe into the PC LAN database and application server space with its parallel implementation of Novell Inc 's Portable NetWare ( UX No 356 , 378 ) , something it says is ‘ very complimentary ’ to the new effort . |
| 9 | And of course er er i i I think it says something it says some thing for the morale , you see , that er and political understanding you see , that you can accept all these things , see , er er and still er and still carry on determined . |
| 10 | That 's something it takes a sturdy British workman to understand . ’ |
| 11 | The paradox of diversion is that whenever we want to divert something it proves very hard to do so ; but when we do not want to create a diversion we very often end up by diverting more than we wanted . |
| 12 | Hewlett-Packard Co has launched something it calls ‘ service-in-a-box ’ for its peripherals product customers . |
| 13 | Take a Break , and he looked just like this , they , oh it was er , a wrong picture or something it looked just like this poor bloke and a pale wrote in from this town saying oh I know him |
| 14 | Except that on this day , while it hunted for flies , one frog lost its way and crawled around the side of one of the outermost petals , or possibly leaves , and saw something it had never seen before . |
| 15 | Trying to stay ahead of the game now that Unix System Labs is soon to have the weight of Novell Inc behind it , Santa Cruz Operation Inc — in conjunction with its IXI Ltd division — says it will begin to offer a fully integrated Common Open Software Environment platform as soon as possible , something it believes few outfits have the resources to do . |
| 16 | Trying to stay ahead of the game now that Unix System Laboratories Inc is soon to have the weight of Novell Inc behind it , Santa Cruz Operation Inc — in conjunction with its IXI division — says it will begin to offer a fully integrated Common Open Software Environment system as soon as possible , something it believes few outfits have the resources to do . |
| 17 | ’ Something it reminds me of … ’ |
| 18 | All sides — Iran and all parties capable of doing something — can bring pressure to end this tragedy in such a manner as to avoid giving the impression that this was done to make trade or that one side has blackmailed the other into doing something it did not want to do . " |
| 19 | It assumes that a user wants to work only within NeXTstep , not on a Unix command line , something it claims other products have failed to realise . |
| 20 | Greece 's natural interest in Europe , like Britain 's , is to be part of a wealth-creating economic confederation , but not part of a political union in which it could get out-voted on something it considered vital . |
| 21 | Labour has been saying something it knows to be untrue . |
| 22 | The transformation seems to involve three groups each promoting something it values : 1 The national press favours ‘ sociological ’ explanations of society , perhaps because when most editors and senior reporters went to school , optimism about the potentialities for social reform was high . |
| 23 | She is admired by business , which is looking forward to an industrial policy for France : something it has lacked for years . |
| 24 | Again , prevention is somewhat easier than overcoming the problem directly , but if you find the dog running off with something it has stolen from the rubbish , do not chase after it . |
| 25 | More interestingly , the company is also to begin casting its nets in other waters when it introduces a new range of productivity tools under the name of Deskworks , in June , something it has talked about for ages . |
| 26 | As an acquaintance put it , ‘ Richard would apply only if the university did something it has n't done for 500 hundred years — say it 's sorry . ’ |
| 27 | yeah , but it has to have something it has to have something with what you wan na do |
| 28 | This discussion has actually sort of change my perspective on it erm and so it 's it 's not that there 's an element of doubt in my mind I 'm just I if I 'm gon na go into something it 's got to be a hundred percent . |
| 29 | It 's the only word in that means I something it 's not got an O on the end of it . |
| 30 | The audition had been one thing , the work–g through the part another — which is something it seems very hard for the audition process to make proper allowance for . |