Example sentences of "[noun] it [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the Rhine it also marked a boundary for the Romans ; beyond it — unknowable nomads ! |
| 2 | in a couple of years it never done a thing and now it 's growing . |
| 3 | While this attitude of hostility to immigrant groups was less severe in west Africa it certainly played a role in Ghana from Nkrumah 's period , and in Nigeria as a result of the ‘ localization ’ decree of 1974 . |
| 4 | If one bit of the brook is cleared and not the rest it just creates a problem somewhere else . |
| 5 | The winner 's conker was then a oner , when it had disposed of two it became a twoer , but if it should then beat a threeer it then became a fiver . |
| 6 | The first version comprises a repository based on Portable Common Tools Environment technology from GIE Emeraude , Louveciennes , and the Neutral Information Model , which in turn is based largely on the Exchange repository interfacing technology from Software One Ltd , Marlow , UK It also includes a control integration system based on IBM Corp 's SDE WorkBench/6000 , which is derived from Hewlett-Packard Co 's SoftBench . |
| 7 | Constable when he was giving evidence it only takes a second to fire a gun was n't that the reason that the bed was tipped because it had to be checked quickly that was n't underneath otherwise Constable may might have got shot . |
| 8 | In a movie you 've got to have good and bad : in Backdraft the fire brigade is the good and the fire is the bad it even has a kind of growling sound . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ A great deal or risible tosh , ’ sniffed the Telegraph admitting : ‘ At times it even achieves a level of plodding competence . ’ |
| 10 | While a welcome improvement it still meant a gap of 3,332 between CNA and average population . |
| 11 | If there is no room to fit a separate shower cubicle , the simplest answer it so fit a bath/shower mixer in place of normal bath taps . |
| 12 | Refitted as a cinema in the early years of this century it subsequently became a bingo hall and finally a flood-damaged carpet warehouse . |
| 13 | At the meeting when the Council approved this document it also received a paper entitled ‘ Academic freedoms which might be granted to colleges ’ , directed towards ‘ relaxing controls ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ When you 've got targets and incentives it just becomes a family planning programme and not much more than that ’ Tricia Parker , Oxfam Bangladesh |
| 15 | However , this extension of the welfare state was double-edged , because as well as offering services it also involved a measure of control over those who were the recipients of those services . |
| 16 | However , as a milking animal it always had a problem which is still apparent today in some animals : the udders were frequently so pendulous that they were prone to injury and made suckling awkward ( baby beef calves were bucket-reared ) , and later were a problem for machine milking . |
| 17 | At the same time it also indicates a polarisation of national identities . |
| 18 | With new rolling stock to replace the unreliable and grubby 1950s locomotive-drawn carriages it now has a fleet of trains to equal the comforts of InterCity . |
| 19 | With new rolling stock to replace the unreliable and grubby 1950s locomotive-drawn carriages it now has a fleet of trains to equal the comforts of InterCity . |
| 20 | We are used to thinking of ‘ femininity ’ as being something to do with women , when in fact it also represents a set of values or behaviour which are generally regarded with disapproval : to call a man ‘ effeminate ’ is generally to insult him ( rather more , perhaps , than it is to call a woman ‘ masculine ’ ) . |