Example sentences of "[vb infin] [subord] it [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If engaged in hand-to-hand fighting the unit will break if it fails the test and may be pursued just as if it had been broken in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 2 | It maintains that they can only benefit if it secures the return to Turkey of the so-called Lydian hoard : Lydian , Archaemenid Persian and other Anatolian artefacts dating back to 600–500 BC which , it contends , were looted in 1960–66 from tombs in the Ushak region of Turkey . |
| 3 | The Minister asks what Labour will do when it gets the chance to govern . |
| 4 | What the high-speed camera does n't show as it freezes the action is that the top pros have the skill to make the clubhead catch up with their hands and arrive at the same time at impact … as when at address . |
| 5 | It was time for a film , a film I had watched before , however I did not mind as it passed the time . |
| 6 | The cannon ball does not stop where it hits the ground , but bounces straight forward and cuts a line through any targets in the way . |
| 7 | " If you throw it up in the air , " the elfin one said , " it will evaporate before it reaches the ground . |
| 8 | As a matter of fact I heard it stop when it reached the house . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Did your watch stop when it hit the floor , Dad ? ’ asked the little boy . |
| 10 | Mr Rushdie added : ‘ In any political issue silence is always the biggest mistake you can make because it gives the initiative to the adversary . |
| 11 | We do recognise establishment factors , that is adhesions in this part of the process and it is very clear that the capsule is one of the factors which allows the organism to pe , persist because it helps the organism to resist phagocytosis . |
| 12 | He takes a drag on his cigarette and taps the ash between his legs , hearing a faint hiss as it hits the water . |
| 13 | I also had high hopes of the Electricity Board , particularly as I had taken to cutting ‘ Miss ’ off my meter reading cards with scissors and it was one of those cards you are n't allowed to cut or mutilate as it upsets the computer . |
| 14 | He thought about the soaring , almost optimistic leap the Volkswagen would make as it cleared the edge of the cliff ( from Henry 's memory of it there was no safety barrier on that particular stretch of the Apennines ) . |