Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 2 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 3 | It turns up as a footnote in every textbook and training manual . |
| 4 | It turns out in the end that , that , all the readings were in there it 's just a matter locating them ! |
| 5 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
| 6 | and then it goes through to the back , now his , although it looks |
| 7 | As soon as an assignment has been fully proofed it goes on to a list which is published every two months to all of the sales execs and you just look out for your number , all right ? and you 've got your own personal records of course , if you know you 've earned bonus then that 's where to claim it . |
| 8 | Well it 's a bit like that but instead of making it go round all the church it goes on to the tape . |
| 9 | It goes on for a minute . |
| 10 | It 's almost sad , and it goes up at the end . |
| 11 | If you get through that you 've got to give the balloon a good hard squirt to make it burn , and if you do make it burn it goes up with a hell of a whoomph and you 've still got to get away . ’ |
| 12 | Now I , I often gives in , in schools , and I particularly show that slide because as you can see it goes up to the year twenty forty er now I shall be a hundred and four in the year twenty forty I wo n't ask you to calculate what age you will be in the year twenty forty it might be quite large erm |
| 13 | Once a Bill has passed its Commons ' stage it goes up to the House of Lords where the same process is repeated , except that the Committee stage is taken on the floor of the House . |
| 14 | And when it goes down to a water hole to drink it crouches down and awkwardly sips with its mouth . |
| 15 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 16 | It goes down to the throat with redness and swelling , enlarged tonsils , hot head , congested face , heavy limbs , a gradual onset . |
| 17 | Local legend states that when it hears the church clock strike twelve it goes down to the River Avon to drink . |
| 18 | You can see there 's been a wee bit of damage to that ligament just where it goes down over the top of that bone . |
| 19 | The philosophy that if it goes down in the US it must be going up in Europe has meant that Smurfit is looking to Europe as its main engine for growth in the months to come , when it must decide how to spend the $1bn cash raised from the recent financial restructuring with Morgan Stanley . |
| 20 | Look every time we 've done it that 's what we also do it goes out on the manager 's report w with the minutes or with the agenda . |
| 21 | " Well , it goes out with every tide . |
| 22 | And it goes out in a blaze of colour — a spectacular firework display which starts at 6.45pm and goes on into the night . |
| 23 | It goes back to the question I posed above : what motivates people to study sex differences and to place such emphasis upon them ? |
| 24 | It goes back to the distinction between langue and parole , the system itself and the use of the system in actual social contexts . |
| 25 | There is nothing new about the way in which the game 's ruling bodies are at loggerheads ( it goes back to the League 's formation ) but the stakes are now very high . |
| 26 | And then you put a return in at the end of that and it goes back to the margin again . |
| 27 | Whether it goes back to the Iron Age or the Bronze Age , however , it has lost its original character as a wide trackway across open country . |
| 28 | She wears little make-up for work and says : ‘ It goes back to the time when I started in the job . |
| 29 | In in fact it was n't long before it was n't long before Christmas was it we we actually got together and I wrote a memo that if there is anything erm before it leaves the plant , if the tractor driver or whatever e does n't like it and it 's not acceptable then it goes back to the plant . |
| 30 | It goes back to the days when people used to worship heavenly bodies as gods . |