Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [pron] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jayhawks know what it 's like laying dimes on railroad tracks and bareback horse-riding through Nevada ( trainspotting in Crewe and donkey rides in Brighton do n't have quite the same ring ) . |
| 2 | We could n't help but notice that some of the coverage following whatever it was we were witness to at UniForum referred to it as ‘ Unified Unix . ’ |
| 3 | We could n't help but notice that some of the coverage following whatever it was we were witness to at Uniforum referred to it as ‘ Unified Unix . ’ |
| 4 | Will the Minister respond positively and allow the board to do what it wishes ? |
| 5 | The importance of assessment , after it has been established that the technique achieves what it has set out to do ( phase I ) , is to determine that the technique is safe , effective , and worthy of further trial ( phase II ) . |
| 6 | While she was waiting for the computer to do whatever it had to do , she rested her elbows on the counter with her back to it and the man next to her said in a heavy voice , ‘ Are you an actress ? ’ |
| 7 | Well the clerk tells me it has n't arrived . |
| 8 | It seems to me , racking my memory that the use classes order post dates and therefore the introduction of class B one which was the main thing in the new use classes order , the chairman tells me it was nineteen eighty eight . |
| 9 | But , alas , madam , I do not in the present know what it is you are asking if I am seeing . ’ |
| 10 | The Secretariat of the Central Committee is given the teeth to do what it is meant to do : appoint , control access to decision-makers and supervise the policy which the Politburo formulates . |
| 11 | Everyone from Sir Freddie Laker to the CAA warned him it was likely , and Branson had taken what measures he could to prevent it happening . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 14 | The footprints told him it was only one person . |
| 15 | You know because we often talk to artists and we ask you know how it happened and and most of them say like topsy it just grew er that that there 's no planned career but with you with the tours er set and the album set it it seems to be more of a controlled career with you two . |
| 16 | The lads tell me it 's a shooting estate — likely that 's where people leave their cars . ’ |
| 17 | The Department told us it would have to be done ‘ objectively ’ by the careers service ; the careers service tell us that a ) they do n't know what is required of them and b ) they have n't got the manpower to do it anyway . |
| 18 | Even though the NSDAP was to achieve its majority in the Danzig Volkstag with a very clear mandate from the electorate to do what it thought necessary , most Danzigers were prepared to reap the benefits of being on the winning side without pondering too deeply the significance or morality of their own personal support for a party they did not entirely trust or like . |
| 19 | Somewhere people are drumming — it must be at the far end of the village , because at times the rhythm is distinct but when the wind takes it it becomes muffled , merging with the roar of the full monsoon river . |
| 20 | The recipient gets what it needs and the donor gets the jobs to provide it . |
| 21 | Does the hand-out/worksheet do what it is meant to do ? |
| 22 | Did the girl know what it was about ? ’ |
| 23 | So did the people on the corridor know who it was ? |
| 24 | He applied to the borough council for a transfer to the Hundens Lane area and claimed the council told him it was ‘ reserved ’ for travelling people . |
| 25 | They did not get many phone calls and any other time she would have rushed out into the hall to see who it was . |
| 26 | as if the question reminded him it was there , Cattini eased the eye-patch . |
| 27 | Cunningham backed his wheelchair away from the desk and stared at Harry quizzically , though whether because he was reluctant to answer or because the mere asking of the question puzzled him it was impossible to tell . |
| 28 | If you have a child who appears to show a talent at one thing , then of course it 's natural to let the child do what it enjoys doing , but that might be the very moment for saying well what is this child not talented at and ensuring that this child gets some experience of the kind of world that it not part of its own talents , so I would feel , from my own point of view and as a psychologist , that if you have a child who is very talented in mathematics , then fine , it 's going to be quite good at mathematics one would assume , now 's the time to say well is it as equally talented in music ? |
| 29 | If you have a child who appears to show a talent at one thing , then of course it 's natural to let the child do what it enjoys doing , but that might be the very moment for saying well what is this child not talented at and ensuring that this child gets some experience of the kind of world that it not part of its own talents , so I would feel , from my own point of view and as a psychologist , that if you have a child who is very talented in mathematics , then fine , it 's going to be quite good at mathematics one would assume , now 's the time to say well is it as equally talented in music ? |
| 30 | Gunmetal-grey flank , big unblinking eye and the dark slash of a mouth , the fish looked what it was — a killing machine , more dangerous , in Trent 's experience , than a shark . |