Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's got two chances either it lives or it dies , and it started to grow like mad . |
| 2 | It adds that it expects to quote eps on both a pre-exceptional and a post-extraordinary basis . |
| 3 | Baronworth Investment Services ( 081–518 1218 ) , which prints a weekly update of best buys , runs a special deal with accountants who can not act as direct agents for bond issuers , and splits any commission 50/50 , but emphasises that it does also recommend bonds that pay no commission . |
| 4 | He accepts that it has to be traded off against the 25 per cent improvement in fuel consumption and longer engine life . |
| 5 | Between disquisitions on Chinese opera and Venetian architecture , the story of Marco Polo 's voyage from Venice to Peking is more or less retold , though the narrative is continually being brought to a halt in moments when it half-realises that it does not mean enough . |
| 6 | He eventually concludes that it involved another acquisition — this time the American firm of Keebler in 1974 . |
| 7 | Schulz considers a number of explanations for the phenomenon she describes , and concludes that it arises from men 's prejudice against women and their fear of women 's ‘ natural ’ power or biological superiority . |
| 8 | The sonnet which apparently seeks to contain the truth of the youth 's beauty so as to gain power and control over it , exposes that it destroys and banishes the youth 's beauty . |
| 9 | She 's found something she loves and it gives her strength . |
| 10 | inflation is the biggest economic problem and what problem it causes and it says discuss the fact that erm with inflation now being around four to five per cent it is now a , it is now being cured , discuss that sort of thing , you say yes it has , but at the moment we 're still suffering the effects because we are in , we 've got high interest rates , we , and in order for us to have really beaten it , we could have low interest rates and low employment and low inflation , but we 're still in the middle of it |
| 11 | when you turn your key it suddenly clicks and it clicks the thingy forward |
| 12 | ‘ Looks like it hurts , ’ laughed Sandy , wresting the straw away from Meg and drinking her milk-shake noisily . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Looks like it does n't it ? |
| 15 | Looks like it does n't it ? |
| 16 | Yeah , looks like it does n't it ? |
| 17 | It looks like it dun n it ? |
| 18 | Yeah looks like it dun n it ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I need that cash for a deposit on my new place , but it looks like it 's gone for good now . ’ |
| 21 | This results in a clean , undistorted image which looks like it 's come out of a laser printer rather than a fax machine . |
| 22 | I think it 's cos , it looks like it 's made out of cardboard . |
| 23 | So I was wanting to mention why it looks like it 's happened just now . |
| 24 | Well it 's , it looks like it 's been cooking . |
| 25 | It looks like it 's been on the M twenty five on a Friday night , and every tyre 's been over it . |
| 26 | Should n't worry about it mine never looks like it 's been combed in any case ! |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | He wears an old-fashioned brown tweed jacket , looks like it has biscuit crumbs sprinkled all over it . |