Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it have [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's a book and it 's oh about quarter of and it 's got the bible written in fourteen nineties . |
| 2 | He jerked his hand back as if it had received an electric shock : a cheek nerve had quivered . |
| 3 | She made a gesture with a graceful hand that shut me up as if it had turned a tap . |
| 4 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 5 | He then engaged full astern , causing the boat to stop as if it had hit a brick wall , and cried : ‘ Drop anchor ! ’ |
| 6 | By that time , many more men had arrived , swirling up through the yard to be sucked into the hall , as if it had become the quiet , humming centre of some whirlpool of power . |
| 7 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 8 | I had never had him down as a kerb-crawler either , but from the state of the car it looked as if it had had a good kicking . |
| 9 | From the outside the Aeronca , with its upturned snub nose and very short undercarriage , looks for all the world as if it has suffered a heavy landing , then run full- pelt into the side of a hangar . |
| 10 | Arbroath 's south transept even looks as if it has smelt the wind under which it will sail ; it is a tall , bare , one-shouldered hulk with a single blank eye at the high gable top where a rose window used to be . |
| 11 | De Klerk said later that the visit was successful in that it had given the US side " the correct perspective " on developments in South Africa , and that the meeting with Bush had amounted to important progress towards " the final normalization of relations between South Africa and the USA " . |
| 12 | As early as 1524 , Henry had given up all hope of Catherine bearing another child , and by the time he became infatuated with Anne Boleyn two years later , he had already begun to convince himself that his wife 's failure to give birth to a son who survived infancy was a sign that his marriage to his brother 's widow was sinful , in that it had broken the laws concerning affinity laid down in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus ( chapter 20 : verse 21 ) . |