Example sentences of "[vb -s] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Looks like it hurts , ’ laughed Sandy , wresting the straw away from Meg and drinking her milk-shake noisily . |
| 2 | This chapter will therefore look at status in the landscape , since this hierarchy and the differences in status are so evident and mean so much in terms of why the landscape looks like it does . |
| 3 | Looks like it does n't it ? |
| 4 | Looks like it does n't it ? |
| 5 | Yeah , looks like it does n't it ? |
| 6 | It looks like it dun n it ? |
| 7 | Yeah looks like it dun n it ? |
| 8 | Yvonne 's wearing a little black number that to my untutored eye looks like it could have cost ten quid or a thousand ; Clare is rather more ostentatious in a short , sparkling , crimson creation that looks like it wants to be a ball-gown when it grows up . |
| 9 | ‘ I need that cash for a deposit on my new place , but it looks like it 's gone for good now . ’ |
| 10 | This results in a clean , undistorted image which looks like it 's come out of a laser printer rather than a fax machine . |
| 11 | I think it 's cos , it looks like it 's made out of cardboard . |
| 12 | So I was wanting to mention why it looks like it 's happened just now . |
| 13 | Well it 's , it looks like it 's been cooking . |
| 14 | It looks like it 's been on the M twenty five on a Friday night , and every tyre 's been over it . |
| 15 | Should n't worry about it mine never looks like it 's been combed in any case ! |
| 16 | My hic hyacinths have all come out except no , they 've all come out , one goron l looks like it 's gone and lot congealed little bad and another hyacinth has two have come up and other ones not come up at all . |
| 17 | You look at a mail box in the United States and it looks like it 's been abandoned , just barely bolted to the ground any more . |
| 18 | Although it is based on a mudane Chrysler Concorde saloon , the two-seater version looks like it has been driven straight off the set of ‘ American Graffiti ’ . |
| 19 | He wears an old-fashioned brown tweed jacket , looks like it has biscuit crumbs sprinkled all over it . |
| 20 | Tory also makes the other common complaint that the novelist knows less than anyone else what is in fact going on around him — he wants to make a satisfactory pattern , and hardly cares if it corresponds to anything outside his mind . |
| 21 | It matters because it means that a trust can be construed even from words which look rather unpromising . |
| 22 | It counts because it counts to them . |
| 23 | On the database side , Unify is currently waiting to see how object technology develops before it makes a move , but is already hard at work on object extensions to its tools , the first of which are expected to emerge next year . |
| 24 | One wonders whether it does not say more about the worker than about the client . |
| 25 | Although this message is unlikely to be one that LDDC highlights when it approaches Whitehall for money , there is no doubting it has shifted its public relations away from targeting solely yuppies and City businessmen . |
| 26 | Your body is supplied with the oxygen it needs when it needs it to burn in its fuel mixture . |
| 27 | Nigel : ‘ It beats as it sweeps as it plugs up the hole in the ozone layer ? ’ |
| 28 | It stands as it has always stood , |
| 29 | Empirical evidence of the participants ' interpretation of next turns is not available , and conversation analysts instead fall back on circular arguments , claiming that the conversation develops as it does by " orientation " to the same organizational devices which have to be taken for granted in order to get this interpretation of the data ( p. 120 ) . |
| 30 | I do n't propose to enter into a tutorial on the enhanced commands , but take it from me that you can manipulate how a program looks when it opens , and even feed keystrokes to it automatically , have it run macros , and so forth . |