Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who does the heart hurt when it sees the unattended pair of shoes ? |
| 2 | Just as green wood , when it is put into the fire , weeps tears of water in the heat because it is still green ( for if it were dry it would not weep ) , so does the heart weep when it is made green again by the renewal of grace , after the desiccating dryness of selfishness has been drawn out of the soul . |
| 3 | Now we are trying to make sure the money goes where it should . |
| 4 | That does not have to be decided in this case , nor is it necessary to consider what defences would be open to such a claim for recovery of the money paid if it lay . |
| 5 | Tropical aquarium favourites , such as guppies and swordtails , start to breed as soon as the days lengthen , while the sexual organs of the goldfish degenerate if it is kept in the dark . |
| 6 | DELL PLAYS THE FIELD LOOKING AS IT REVIEWS ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF CASH |
| 7 | The company is still paying off the debts incurred when it simultaneously bought itself out from parent company Perkin-Elmer and acquired rival real-time vendor Masscomp , back in 1988 ( UX No 191 ) , but last week filed a public offer of sufficient new shares to raise about $60m . |
| 8 | That is the bit to destroy as it is stopping the development of the picture . |
| 9 | In an air test , stoppers are used to block off the ends of the drain and air is blown into the drain to see whether it can hold the pressure . |
| 10 | The difficulty arises when it is uncertain whether or not the competent adult ( as I call her for brevity ) does or does not consent to the proposed treatment . |
| 11 | The jaw tightened till it looked as if it had been carved from golden marble . |
| 12 | Swell waves running on to a coast break when the forward motion of particles at the wave crest exceeds the forward movement of the wave as a whole , a state of affairs caused by the wave retarding as it runs into shallow water and sometimes over-naively attributed to friction with the sea bottom . |
| 13 | But that was n't enough , she reminded herself sharply , watching the male curlew as it waded out into the shallows , searching for food beneath the surface of the loch . |
| 14 | The sickle slowed as it approached , and she imagined the biker licking his lips inside his helmet , anticipating a tasty morsel . |
| 15 | The answer was close now and the minutes remaining before it was revealed to her were harder to bear than the days and weeks that had gone before . |
| 16 | The story ends as it began , with a boy of seventeen rescued from an inflatable life-raft in a confused , incoherent state . |
| 17 | The noise swelled until it had the jarring monotony of traffic . |
| 18 | How long it endures — how long the Pacific wave will stand before it breaks , how full the chorus sings until it wavers , how long before the brilliance of the light begins to dim — can not even be guessed . |
| 19 | The Netherlands disagreed because it thought harmonised taxes would be too weak . |
| 20 | The problem is that it would be very hard to justify the cost : much of this could go on after students arrived , and the course modified as it went along . |
| 21 | As our awareness of ‘ the environment ’ has gown , so has the meaning given to the term expanded until it has come to signify the whole of the non-cultural world . |
| 22 | Try out each of your jokes on someone who will not be at the wedding to see if it sounds funny the way you tell it . |
| 23 | Everything look alright again , and then the weather worsened and the attempt looked like it would never happen . |
| 24 | ‘ We thought that Italians always tested the silver to see if it was real . ’ |
| 25 | And the wish keeps the illusion going as it were . |
| 26 | Nutty rode into the warehouse to see if it was ready , and Hoomey followed her , towing Bones , who was ready to go wherever the food sacks were going . |
| 27 | In the North , protestant loyalists accuse catholic nationalists of not accepting the rights of the majority in the statelet to govern as it sees fit . |
| 28 | Nor has the Department decided whether it is going to contribute towards the considerable capital cost of new computers , causing doctors to put off to the last minute a decision on which system to choose . |
| 29 | Never try to fit a line before you have plotted the data to see if it is a sensible thing to do . |
| 30 | The ring glows because it was heated to more than 20 000 °C by radiation produced by the supernova blast . |