Example sentences of "[noun sg] [unc] [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flies lay their eggs mostly on the hairs of the horse 's legs , where they hatch and enter the horse 's mouth when it scratches itself . |
| 2 | It was when he had pictured Morpurgo in his mind 's eye that it had occurred to him : such a trivial matter , yet nonetheless not right , not right at all — surely he must be mistaken . |
| 3 | But the artistic world is London Underground 's oyster when it comes to the fine art posters which , since the scheme started in 1986 , have been scattered amongst less erudite advertisements on station walls . |
| 4 | The report 's recommendations are in line with the Industry 's argument that it does not make economic sense to close Britain 's nuclear power plants early and that it is far cheaper to run the stations than to close them . |
| 5 | There was coppa , made from the muscular part of the pig 's neck where it meets the shoulder , and prosciutto , Parma ham , which comes from the same part of the pig as English gammon , and is cured in specially air-cooled rooms up in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma . |
| 6 | Marcos loyalists now poke fun at the Aquino administration 's boast that it has built a new stability , arguing it is pretty fragile if it wo n't allow a dead man home for burial . |
| 7 | This may be called the " ambulance effect " because its most familiar manifestation is the sudden drop in pitch of an ambulance 's siren as it speeds past the listener . |
| 8 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 9 | Blue Baron 's fun while it lasts , but unfortunately it wo n't last too long . |
| 10 | The X-ray flux is so great when it emerges from the machine 's vacuum that it causes the air to fluoresce and , if focused , it can burn holes in paper rather like a powerful laser beam . |
| 11 | AFIRM of auctioneers which sold two oil paintings for £840 five months before the works fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's after being attributed to the 18th century master , George Stubbs , won its appeal yesterday against a judge 's ruling that it had been negligent . |
| 12 | I was , I explained , a bit of a big girl 's blouse when it came to crumbling ledges , sheer drops , being underwater for unreasonable lengths of time and squeezing into jam jar sized spaces . |
| 13 | The cameraman is recording a ‘ cut on action ’ which is centred on the little girl 's hand as it reaches down to pat the goat . |
| 14 | We 've checked his story against the girl 's account and it hangs together in every detail . ’ |
| 15 | In response , Pat Arbor , the chairman of the Board of Trade , said it was not the exchange 's fault that it had been duped by Stotler 's doctored financial records . |
| 16 | Later , he comments on this , as follows : ‘ In treating of the development of the notion of thought , we may regard as primitive the child 's conviction that it thinks with the mouth . |
| 17 | The goal of collecting naturalistic language data is , by definition , to capture a sample of the child 's language as it occurs under ordinary , everyday conditions . |
| 18 | Stadtverkehr im Wandel meaning Town traffic in change began by stressing the role of streets in a child 's growth as it learned ‘ to be at home in the town ’ . |
| 19 | Many beautiful animal portraits have been submitted over the months of the competition , but it usually takes that special ‘ something ’ to create the magic of a prize-winning photograph — perhaps a bird captured in mid-flight , or the moment of sheer wonder on a child 's face as it encounters one of the several animal species now allowed to roam freely in the zoo grounds . |
| 20 | This is the electronic version of British Rail 's timetable and it comes as no surprise to find that it 's subject to BR 's usual get-out clauses . |
| 21 | No some people it if their hair 's dark and it do n't matter what length |
| 22 | Versailles was a victor 's peace and it created a minefield of unresolved national problems in central Europe . |
| 23 | Within Renaissance writing we can discover evidence which reveals that a text 's recognition that it circulates within a powerful institutional context need not be capitulation to context , but its own powerful representation of that context . |
| 24 | She goes when she was born either he was chewing some chewing gum and it fell out and it went ins caught in your mum 's prinny and it glued it together See you tomorrow dudes . |
| 25 | I 'm told those palaces are tighter than a young whore 's arse when it comes to security . ’ |
| 26 | The exception is of course that delivery to a carrier without the reservation of a right of disposal will terminate the seller 's lien whereas it marks the commencement of the ‘ course of transit . ’ |
| 27 | We are also able to detect the change in shape of the eye 's lens as it focuses on an object . |
| 28 | The bank manager may want to reduce the business 's overdraft if it assigns security over its debtors to a factor ; and the factor 's fee may be too costly for businesses that work on very fine margins . |
| 29 | This can be the keystone of the defence as well , although the defendant might be prepared to accept the plaintiff 's evidence if it contains nothing controversial . |
| 30 | Japanese , it 's a massive one , one er , it 's a thirty thousand gallon erm pond and it 's got , and it goes through a filter box and it 's four and a half tons of erm four and a half tons and that is a lot of |