Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clouds of water vapour that had surrounded it had condensed to form seas , but they were still hot . |
| 2 | Conoco also disclosed it has started a review of offshore maintenance operations could lead to a jobs rundown . |
| 3 | The mounting and hinging of these three bones , by the way , is exactly as a hi-fi engineer might have designed it to serve a necessary " impedance-matching " function , but that is another story . |
| 4 | So 15 of the chosen 30 have a very modest international background — and this going into tests against Australia , the World Cup holders , and South Africa , who rather fancy that they would have won it had they been invited . |
| 5 | Mm , see they , they 'd actually approached all this , they 've approached it have n't they ? |
| 6 | Members of Unix International have approached it to suggest that the true blue Unix club get a piece of the COSE requirement process , and word is that Unix International is having informal discussions with the COSE crew . |
| 7 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 8 | But since Miletti was immobilized it had been agreed that he would be fetched by a group consisting of Pietro Miletti escorted by Zen and Palottino in the Alfetta , with an ambulance in attendance in case Ruggiero required immediate attention . |
| 9 | The epilogue to this evening 's survival devotions was , strange as it may seem , exactly as I should have expected it to turn out , I do not remember when I missed — or at what stage — my flight engineer , but when I returned to camp and was literally wallowing in what the High Master at Command had to say to me . |
| 10 | THE threat of higher taxes in next week 's Budget gave the stock market a severe panic attack this week , when the FT-SE 100-Share Index was within 20 points of the 3,000 line , which the bulls had confidently expected it to reach by Budget Day . |
| 11 | The company had expected it to show a quantifiable benefit by reducing absenteeism and labour turnover , and by easing the production control difficulties caused by the inflexibilities of the line system . |
| 12 | If the CEMREL Research Project ( 1972 ) is any indication of what is expected it seems American teachers are looking for a child 's skill at ‘ showing ’ , and , in particular , ‘ showing ’ emotion . |
| 13 | If the early universe had been chaotic or irregular , or if the pressure of matter had been low , one would have expected it to produce many more primordial black holes than the limit already set by our observations of the gamma ray background . |
| 14 | McCaw has been pursuing LIN since June , and some analysts had expected it to raise its bid in wake of the merger agreement with Bell South , the regional telephone utility based in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 15 | ‘ I should have expected it to end just like it began with Stephanie — immediately , ’ said Rob . |
| 16 | The Templars first built it as a fortified manor but later generations had embellished it to make it more comfortable . |
| 17 | Once the assumptions of the perfect market model are dropped it becomes clear that they have the capacity to safeguard these interests , manifested in a sluggishness of response , if not outright resistance , to changes in what consumers actually want , or might want if they were aware of the full range of possible alternatives . |
| 18 | ( The bank clerk who had occupied it had been called up to the army . ) |
| 19 | At the time she had supposed it had been a reaction to his upbringing , all those years spent in his parents ' elegant Georgian house on the edge of a quiet , beautiful Sussex village . |
| 20 | Grandad Terry Potter had only just installed it to stop Adam 's bids to get into the street at Barnsley , South Yorks . |
| 21 | Even when an expensive filtration plant was finally installed it proved inadequate . |
| 22 | Excluding its OEM partners , which include Fujitsu Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Fuji Xerox Co , Nippon Steel Co , Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and other powerful players , Sun had an 11.4% share of the market last fiscal , putting it in fourth place , but if the OEM sales are included it shoots to the top with a 22.7% share . |
| 23 | Arrested larvae accumulate during the spring and where Type II disease has been reported it has occurred in late summer or early autumn . |
| 24 | With 15 to 20 per cent of tin or more , the alloy becomes brittle and almost unworkable , although it can still be cast to shape , and as more tin is added it becomes whiter in colour . |
| 25 | There seems , anyway , to be a metaphorical confusion in this idea : if the inner life is in need of air , how come it takes place in the least accessible parts of our being ? |
| 26 | 3 ) If Washburn has discovered the centre of the universe within our own solar system , how come it has taken them so long to tell anybody about it ? |
| 27 | And when it 's come it 's usually been a case of you can smell something horrible like erm you know when they 're emptying the slurries out in the pig farms . |
| 28 | because I was n't I said how come it ends up being that and they said you just carry . |
| 29 | As a policy that might have succeeded it suffered from impossible political equivocation . |
| 30 | Now much of the rest of the stone of the building also dates from the medieval period but in fact in the nineteenth century the building er was very popular as a church and the vicar at the time decided that what he needed was more space and so they knocked down virtually the whole building apart from the tower and the east erm erm window and rebuilt it to put in the er gallery at the level that we 're standing here . |