Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb -s] it [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This monitors nine separate areas of the car and immobilises it if someone tries to break in . |
| 2 | A wide recording head stretches across the jumbo roll of tape and magnetises it before it is slit to domestic size . |
| 3 | The tube can be lowered into the tank and once a syphon has been made , the tube picks up gravel and agitates it and once you apply your thumb to the end of the hose , the gravel falls back to the bottom , leaving you with clean substrate and a bucketful of dirty water . |
| 4 | It has been suggested that " on " means " against " and therefore it is not robbery if the accused snatches the victim 's bag unless the victim retains hold or recovers it and there is a fight . |
| 5 | The body has an organising intelligence that orders it and runs all the processes and functions of the parts and integrates them into the whole . |
| 6 | One way of putting this may be to contrast a view of intervention that sees it as being essentially brief , focused , and assessment-based , and one that conceives intervention , whether explicitly or implicitly , as being a longer-term and more broadly supportive enterprise , in which social care planning and ‘ networking ’ have a high profile . |
| 7 | The PLAYER gets to his feet and walks over to his barrel and kicks it and shouts into it . ) |
| 8 | The UK , however , is far from happy about the prospect and sees it as helping to create a paradise for criminals , terrorists and drug traffickers . |
| 9 | So it 's an attempt on , on , on the second level to minutely reconstructing historical , the lost , the truest but what really happened and in that on that level , it 's important for Freud to establish that Moses was not Jewish but Egyptian , because this gives him the link with Egyptian monarchism and the events of the exodus and explains it as well . |
| 10 | Brundle puts the car into a massive slide across the bend and catches it after we have left the track on the other side . |
| 11 | I do n't know how strong it is because as I say , erm most contracts of employment do include a provision that if somebody h has a driving licence and loses it and driving is part of their work , even if it 's only a minor part of their work , then the employer can erm dismiss . |
| 12 | Albinos of any animal ( even humans ) have poor vision in strong light , so perhaps the Kigoi relies on the hand that feeds it because it is beaten to the foraging by normally-pigmented pondmates . |
| 13 | If you can hold your feelings and examine them , force yourself to hear the voice and ask why it produces the response that it does , you are beginning to get the better of it , to break the fearful silence that surrounds it and , incidentally , to add another voice to your writing repertoire . |
| 14 | Marie helps me off with my coat and holds it while I slip the jacket on . |
| 15 | I go back and sit down again , and she takes a hold of my hand and squeezes it like she 's saying sorry or summat . |
| 16 | think of an addition to the other person 's idea that improves it and overcomes the snag you have identified . |
| 17 | The cricket periodically tests the size of its acoustic horn and adjusts it until it resonates at the frequency produced by its wings — a remarkable feat since it can only gauge the efficiency of its amplifier by detecting the changes in pressure waves within the chamber . |