Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I w I was wondering myself did the watchmen make up the story or did it come ? |
| 2 | This evidence can then be used to modify the contract or allow it to terminate and not to offer renewal . |
| 3 | But the larger questions of how to anchor Germany to the West or watch it turn towards Central Europe , went unanswered . |
| 4 | You also need to be inventive and prepared to look to untried and untested ways to earn money or to make it work for you . |
| 5 | If you are unlucky enough to lose your AutoCheque Card or have it stolen , any Switch withdrawals made from your account by forging your signature will be refunded — even if they occur before you advise us of the loss . |
| 6 | Residents are now anxiously awaiting the decision which will either give Mappleton a future or condemn it to perish in the North Sea . |
| 7 | How many millions similar to him have given up the ghost of ambition or had it driven out of them ? |
| 8 | The court to which an application for a stay of action should be made is the court in which that action is pending and the court can either stay the action or allow it to continue on such terms as it thinks fit ( s 285(2) ) . |
| 9 | Does it refer to territory already held by the Croatians or does it apply to old frontiers which are up for grabs ? |
| 10 | He despises the human race and the combinations that make it tick ; the human race in its present state , he 'd qualify — he 'd like to send us all back to nursery school — so he has to behave as unlike his fellow beings as he can . ’ |
| 11 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 12 | Brookhouse was fortunate for , as the cloth trade went into decline , it managed to attract a new industry that enabled it to keep going for a century longer than many of its counterparts . |
| 13 | He kicked the chair aside with a violence that sent it crashing across the floor . |
| 14 | Nothing could be more enslaving and therefore less worthy of the human mind than to have it chained to the mechanics of the patterns of the language rather than free to dwell on the message conveyed through the language . |
| 15 | All were matted with puffs of trees ; the bright thread of a waterfall was laid over one , a snail 's silver trail ; and one was crossed by a great rift that made it appear a giant 's helter-skelter . |
| 16 | It also reduces the load on the tail-skid or wheel and makes it slip sideways more easily . |
| 17 | ‘ I had daft wee notions about setting up a mobile massage unit going round theatres at matinees getting people 's shoulders out of their ears and calling it Feels on Wheels , ’ said the Glasgow-born actress . |
| 18 | ‘ I had daft wee notions about setting up a mobile massage unit going round theatres at matinees getting people 's shoulders out of their ears and calling it Feels on Wheels , ’ said the Glasgow-born actress . |
| 19 | Drive Lace is of course knitted in a totally different way from Brother 's fine lace ( and you ca n't of course take a Brother fine lace card and use it to knit drive lace ) . |
| 20 | If she did n't know better she 'd have said he 'd sabotaged her jeep and made it rain this way , just so he could enjoy some amusement at her expense ! |
| 21 | Derek Malcolm , The Guardian 's film critic , agrees that there has been a gradual shift in perception and suggests it began as movie moguls realised women were no longer being ‘ taken ’ to the movies by their menfolk , hot on the trail of Rambo . |
| 22 | From the yard where the cart was kept , Rosa heard the Small splosh in the bucket after Sabina had placed the bird between her legs and slitted it to pull the guts . |
| 23 | It smashed and he picked up one the table legs and used it to hit her . ’ |
| 24 | Since there was no sign of a bell , Charles raised the enormous ring and let it fall . |
| 25 | Look Ralph erm if , if you do n't mind me saying can you remember if you do this could you just give me a ring and say it 's done , if not Sid come down in the morning . |
| 26 | Gedge joked to music writers that he had accidentally played the original Orange Juice song at the wrong speed and thought it sounded great . |
| 27 | While S & N has announced itself ‘ perfectly happy ’ with the way things have gone since the switch and said it had been successful , some observers are convinced that operating costs have increased substantially and cite political rather than cost or environmental reasons behind the decision . |
| 28 | Held against his heart , feeling the steady beat beneath her cheek , she closed her eyes and let it wash over her in soothing waves . |
| 29 | It was hard enough to stare at his photograph and make it come to life , but it was impossible to imagine the figure in the picture living in the sort of conditions which Normandin and others had described . |
| 30 | The UN Security Council on Aug. 15 unanimously adopted Resolution 707 condemning Iraq for its failure to disclose full details of its weapons programme and ordering it to provide complete access to UN inspection teams [ see pp. 38307-08 ; 38360-61 ] , including accepting their right to conduct aerial inspections anywhere in the country . |