Example sentences of "[subord] it have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub . |
| 2 | Although it had become easier for some middle-class men ( or their sons ) to earn membership of the national ruling culture by Edwardian times , their status as true " gentlemen " remained equivocal in an atmosphere of continued mistrust of the business community , albeit tempered by outbreaks of anxiety over the volatility of the lower orders which it was felt the task of their middle-class superiors to defuse . |
| 3 | He does n't take , it 's strange , although it 's made originally with gin soaking the slows you ca n't taste any thing of the gin , slows kill it completely , cos I loathe the smell of gin , I ca n't stand it . |
| 4 | which I have n't yet got on to cos I wanted to hear most , at least most of the arguments on this aspect of the case , although it 's got very in effect very little to do with the other , other , but it does n't see round , er I could get on with that to a degree , er , so I do n't mind too much , but I think Friday is , is asking to much from Mr |
| 5 | But it 's not gon na take me longer at that time of the morning than it has done today at eleven o'clock or so is it ? |
| 6 | She waited until it had stalked away before picking up the remains of the Geiger-Muller counter and dropping them into the holdall . |
| 7 | Psychologically investors ' money would be locked in , often until it had dwindled overall to less than half its original worth . |
| 8 | Most countries tax multinationals on an ‘ arm 's length ’ basis , calculating the profits that the firm earned within their borders as if it had done so through a stand-alone business , operating at arm 's length from the parent firm . |
| 9 | Cliff 's contribution to the Palace cause would have been worth recording if it had stopped there at the end of 1962–63 , with Palace safely in mid-table but , twelve months later , and courtesy of 20 goals from the big man himself , we were back in Division Two after an absence of 39 years . |
| 10 | It looked as if it had gone straight over the side and into the valley . |
| 11 | It looked as if it had landed there by chance , like a piece of paper or a leaf . |
| 12 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 13 | All her attention was on her first bite of bread which tasted as if it had come straight from Paradise . |
| 14 | Amis in a radio interview has spoken of his war-time friendship at Oxford with Philip Larkin as if it had succeeded only in inverted terms . |
| 15 | If it 's put together on one sheet er we can actually sa sa say right this is what we 're gon na do this term . |
| 16 | But most require that you already have security , either in the form of equity in your home ( i.e. if it has risen significantly in value since you bought it ) or as money in the bank . |
| 17 | The General Secretary of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen wrote to the Home Secretary arguing that the growth of fascism created a threat to organized labour since it had led elsewhere to the suppression and murder of trade unionists . |
| 18 | Now whether it had got there by mistake we never knew but there was no question she was absolutely just dismissed on the spot . |
| 19 | After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home . |
| 20 | A proposal supported by Chile and Brazil for the bank to make loans directly to private-sector companies , as it had done frequently in its early years , was discussed . |
| 21 | After the Baltic Exchange explosion , the Government agreed to move in as it had done before in Northern Ireland , to act as ‘ insurer of last resort ’ , and the necessary legislation is in the Reinsurance ( Acts of Terrorism ) Bill published on 5 May this year . |
| 22 | It did n't feel as cold as it had done earlier in the day . |
| 23 | Science , as it has developed right across the board since the end of the sixteenth century , has operated with the axiomatic assumption that events in the material world , out there , external to human minds , are governed by regularities which are so coherent and consistent that they can be treated as " natural laws " . |
| 24 | It could have provided new nursery schools years ago as it has done elsewhere in the county . |
| 25 | ‘ Our Dublin plant has consistently failed to produce the expected results , and it is this unfortunate experience which will weigh heavily against any further investment in Eire ; in much the same way as it has weighed heavily against the UK . |
| 26 | The increase was transient , though , for it had disappeared again by three hours after training . |