Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can put a bucket on and it fills ours up , she can put a bucket on and it 's flat . |
| 2 | sort of bits , I 've got a bit here and it says all landlords may be liquidated immediately you know |
| 3 | A cookie war on both sides of the Atlantic has kept UB on its toes and it will have to move a bit quicker if it wants to keep its investors satisfied . |
| 4 | I 'm a bit of a bore really when it comes to food . |
| 5 | A picture of the American family began to be glimpsed as a super-mobile group that could get together to grill a hamburger only if it drove to the appointment . |
| 6 | These three vices are universally regarded as so detrimental to a horse , and so incurable , that if one is detected in a horse soon after it has been sold at a reputable horse auction , it is grounds for its sale to be cancelled . |
| 7 | Another dealer explained : ‘ There are some punters who will buy a stock just because it has fallen a long way . ’ |
| 8 | They 've tried to put a plaque there but it gets stolen . |
| 9 | There 's a li he puts a light on and it lights it up down the , a long way down . |
| 10 | The idea being conveyed by such notions as the surrender of private judgment … is that in obeying , say , a command simply because it comes from someone accorded the right to rule , the subject does not make his obedience conditional on his own personal examination and evaluation of the thing he is being asked to do . |
| 11 | The president of the Writer 's Association , Hermann Kant , a central committee member , said the exodus of almost 50,000 refugees could not be blamed on the ‘ wicked class enemy ’ in West Germany : ‘ A defeat is a defeat even if it comes on the eve of a glorious celebration . ’ |
| 12 | When I last met them in September , I asked them to consider urgently three specific point : first , the introduction of visible vehicle identification numbers ; secondly , the fitting of deadlocking across all their vehicle ranges ; and , most important , the development of an effective vehicle immobilising device that would make it impossible to move a car even if it had been broken into . |
| 13 | And if you do buy a car privately and it turns out to have problems with it , there is very little , if anything the Trading Standards Department could do to help you . |
| 14 | There always was a pub here but it has been transformed . |
| 15 | This is that B 's letter is a nullity even if it arrives on time . |
| 16 | The exhaust gas is mixed with a little air from a small pump at a point just before it enters the canister . |
| 17 | If you are involved in a nanny share , depending on the financial arrangements , l it may be viewed as a business even if it does not feel like one ! |
| 18 | There is no comparison between the firm , delicate flesh of such a natural specimen and the fatty flab of the farmed fish made pink by E160g , washed in Nuvan to minimize lice infestation and packed into a cage so that it gets little or no natural conditioning . |
| 19 | If the idea itself is more important to you than the glory reflecting from its success , then raise the idea at a meeting so that it becomes an idea generated by a team . |
| 20 | The report comes out strongly against the imposition of trade sanctions against countries on environmental grounds : in an implicit reference to the recent US action against tuna imports from Mexico [ see ED 55 ] , the report says , " a country may not restrict imports of a product solely because it originates in a country whose environmental policies are different . " |
| 21 | ‘ My brother , Mark , is on one song which we had cut a while ago and it wound up going on the record because it was such a good demo . ’ |
| 22 | Another Saturday came round with no prospect of a night off when it began to rain in the afternoon . |
| 23 | Such a policy was first suggested over a decade ago when it seemed that a Polytechnics Central Council on Admissions , styled PCCA and doubtless pronounced ‘ Pukka ’ , would not be inappropriate . |
| 24 | It is possible , therefore , to construct a sample so that it has the same distribution of characteristics as the population as a whole or , if necessary , selected portions of it . |
| 25 | It moved three quarters of a mile downwind where it managed to hold station under its own power . |
| 26 | From the group 's perspective , it desires to be involved where it can influence the final shape of a policy so that it maximizes the benefits and minimizes the losses to its members . |
| 27 | for art historians , incomplete schemes or dismembered works such as altarpieces have the attraction of needing detective work ; but a critic takes an interest in a reconstruction only if it throws new light on surviving art . |
| 28 | I had a week off when it happened . |
| 29 | IBM Corp has finally confirmed the elusive story that gained a little currency about a month ago that it planned a massive borrowing spree ( CI No 2,151 ) . |
| 30 | I 'll tell you about Evan Roberts later , and there 's plenty to tell even to those who buy a magazine simply because it says Climber on the cover . |