Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along zones of plate convergence , especially where these occur along the margins — of continents ( such as along the west coast of South America ) , buckling of the oceanic lithosphere causes it to founder and sink into the underlying asthenosphere , thereby forming a subduction zone . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | your car is damaged while it is parked and unattended or a motor trader has it to service or repair it ; or |
| 4 | your car is damaged while it is parked and unattended or a motor trader has it to service or repair it ; or |
| 5 | What instruments has it employed and with what degree of success has it pursued the task of reform ? |
| 6 | Indeed so popular has it become that its designer has achieved the ultimate scientific accolade of eponymy ( having a phenomenon , method or piece of equipment named after oneself ) , for the apparatus is known as the ‘ morris water maze ’ ( Figure 9.5 ) and within the last few years has virtually replaced the skinner box as necessary equipment for all psychology labs . |
| 7 | If it is how has it happened and who erm er who 's to blame ? |
| 8 | I want to write about it here so that new writers will know it exists and perhaps be brave enough to address this difficult aspect of our experience in their work . |
| 9 | In her child 's understanding it seemed that it was her own liberation that was the cause of the celebration , and the arrival of the princess , the flags which appeared on all the buildings and the succession of functions for which her mother and Denzil put on their beautiful evening clothes and left her with the maid . |
| 10 | What we do is buy it barrelled and and |
| 11 | Change incontinence pads frequently , and pay special attention to the person 's skin , keeping it washed and dried . |
| 12 | As it moved it creaked and crackled , an old tree moving over crisp leaves . |
| 13 | When this body , which was composed of an independent chairman and two representatives from both sides , eventually reported it suggested that there should be no change in conditions and wages in the industry . |
| 14 | It was too big a puzzle and she let it go although it gnawed away at the back of her mind . |
| 15 | She let it soak while she searched again among the water colours . |
| 16 | He let it fall and they ran down through the field after Caspar . |
| 17 | but he let it lapse because |
| 18 | From the CECOS Report it seems that church-related activities were often the main focus of outings for girls . |
| 19 | American scholars say it conforms that the idea of Jesus Christ was around almost 2,000 years before he was born on Earth . |
| 20 | Leaked accounts say it finds that army units were far more deeply involved in the repression than were the navy , the air force or the police , whose chiefs have all taken command since the coup of 1973 . |
| 21 | Hailing the decision as a major breakthrough , campaigners say it signifies that the tuna-dolphin issue is being taken seriously by British industry and will lead to other negotiations between industry and environmentalists . |
| 22 | However , in some of the cases that he mentioned it appears that there must have been some error , or they would have been dealt with more promptly . |
| 23 | Every time he walked that 's him come back again and every time he stopped it stopped and this happened a few times and he was very scared and he thought he had better go and see what the noise was and anything well it was just a pet sheep tangled up in its tether . |
| 24 | He accepts it happened and he is appalled by it , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Joan had not visited Brian 's grave in five years and had expected to find it neglected and overgrown . |
| 26 | Leaving it , they marched to Hastings , to find it deserted and on fire ; in retribution for this ‘ scorched earth policy ’ they burnt Rye to the ground . |
| 27 | Of the mammalian orders , the insectivores , the ungulates , the Cetacea , the carnivores , and others , each comprises an array of forms of which every one is adapted to a particular habitat with a mode of life enabling it to live and reproduce there . |
| 28 | It would prefer to import technologies , enabling it to copy or co-produce . |
| 29 | I 'd heard so much about the blinking cruise being in October and not in September that I 'd considered it done and June , fool that she is , chose not to challenge me outright because her tactic is to suffer in silence until her suffering spills from her like lava , devastating everyone in its path . |
| 30 | This claim was widely debated because Malthus used it to suggest that poverty and starvation were inevitable . |