Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's that thing , something you do that causes it to get chopped off ? |
| 2 | It 's what triggers it and what causes it to keep triggering and moving that and |
| 3 | Nor has it felt bound by territorial or jurisdictional limits . |
| 4 | This is the really thorny question , but only relatively recently has it begun to receive the attention it merits . |
| 5 | It was badly scarred by the ill-fated attempt to acquire Leyland Vehicles and Land Rover , and only in recent times has it begun to reverse its image in Britain as little more than a screwdriver assembler of cars . |
| 6 | Really really what has it got to do with our clients ? |
| 7 | Has it stopped raining ? |
| 8 | Nor has it made building up the industrial base an objective . |
| 9 | Only in Cambodia has it tried to do both at once . |
| 10 | Why has it started moving in that particular direction ? |
| 11 | Hey has it got does it charge the batteries up ? |
| 12 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
| 13 | My question concerns the Shetland Island project and the question is this how much has the withdrawal of the Board of Social Responsibility from the Shetland Islands project got to do with the Board 's policy on social responsibility appointed staff being sympathetic to the Christian faith , and how much has it got to do with the fact that the Shetland Islands Council no longer need the Board of Social Responsibility to be able to spend charitable trust money , in other words oil money , without jeopardizing community charge support grant ? |
| 14 | ‘ What on earth has it got to do with the children ? ’ |
| 15 | Now as far as I 'm concerned and many people this remark is ageist and sexist and really what has it got to do with Nottingham heritage ? |
| 16 | ‘ Just what has it got to do with you ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ What the hell has it got to do with you ? ’ |
| 18 | So what has it got to offer ? |
| 19 | Apart from North Sea projects on the drawing board , progress is expected during 1993 towards the development of the huge Mars discovery it shares with Shell in the Gulf of Mexico and the oil reserves it has established by pioneering exploration work in Colombia . |
| 20 | Of course it matters it 's got to be in by tomorrow . |
| 21 | We sailed down the reaches of the Thames and , standing in the bows , I saw the river through the eyes of Marlow in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , as a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea " . |
| 22 | Each authority will be responding to its local conditions , the numbers of SSD homes it has kept in reserve to manage the market , the extent to which it has created quasi-independent trusts , and the number of private beds in its locality . |
| 23 | As any market matures it tends to split into clearly defined areas , mainly as a result of targeted marketing rather than any particularly identifiable product differences . |
| 24 | Ooh looks it 's gone a funny colour ! |
| 25 | Yeah , but look how that 's exactly like yours except that it looks it looks lived in . |
| 26 | However , the longevity of the Republic , the material rewards it had provided to the German people and the fact that Eastern Europeans hoped to emulate West German success in future , suggested that Bonn would act to promote , not threaten , democracy across Europe in the 1990s . |
| 27 | Any asshole who wants it gets to read my file . ’ |
| 28 | A taxi firm run by women for women says it plans to carry on operating despite a ruling that such services discriminate against men . |
| 29 | Nynex Corp 's Nynex CableComms unit has bought three of the eight UK cable television companies that Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's PacTel Cable UK Ltd put on the market last June ( CI No 1,943 ) : Nynex has taken the Greater Manchester , Bolton and Derby franchises and while it did not disclose terms , says it plans to invest £1,000m over the next five to six years to provide local telecommunications networks in its British franchise areas ; the companies it acquired are in franchise areas where it already operates . |
| 30 | ENynex Corp has extended its status as the biggest cable television operator in the UK by buying out US Cable Corp and Morgan Cable Ltd to take control of the Bury and Rochdale and Oldham and Tameside cable franchises : the New York and New England phone company now holds 19 franchises surviving a potential 2.7m homes and offices , and says it plans to invest over £1,000m in the next six to seven years to provide cable and telephone services ; at present it is providing cable television services to only 35,000 customers and 20,000 telephone lines . |