Example sentences of "[vb base] [Wh det] it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does it give you any clues about what happened later ? 3 Make a list of any clues you can find and beside each one say what it suggests to you about what will happen later in the story . |
| 2 | This is a witty , thoughtful , provocative film in which two women of colour exuberantly explore what it means to be black and beautiful . |
| 3 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 4 | Central to the manifesto is the party 's commitments to increase education provision and halt what it sees as the erosion of social services in the county . |
| 5 | If you do n't get rid of acid you know what it does to even metal , if it sits on metal it eats through it , so you imagine what it does to your bones when it sits on them . |
| 6 | I read what it said on the notice and it said , Health and Safety at Work , it said , Obey These Signs , it said , and it said , ‘ They Are There For Your Protection . ’ |
| 7 | Look what it did to him — ‘ Paradise Regained ’ ! |
| 8 | I remember what it done with me . |
| 9 | If you remember what it felt like , broken , every time you throw a punch … |
| 10 | ‘ You know what it tastes like ? ’ she asks dreamily . |
| 11 | If you do n't get rid of acid you know what it does to even metal , if it sits on metal it eats through it , so you imagine what it does to your bones when it sits on them . |
| 12 | I know what it does to you , and I do n't want to feel like I feel now , thanks very much . |
| 13 | The people who were lived behind Ann there 's a yo young couple in there I think he beat her up , I mean that I wanted to go round me , because I know what it felt like and I wished somebody had come and help me . |
| 14 | I know what it feels like now . ’ |
| 15 | We can draw anything in the world if we know what it looks like , but only when drawing a human being can we truly say we know what it feels like . |
| 16 | We can draw anything in the world if we know what it looks like , but only when drawing a human being can we truly say we know what it feels like . |
| 17 | Yesterday deputy co-ordinator Sandra Watson said : ‘ Now we definitely know what it feels like . ’ |
| 18 | You know what it led to before . |
| 19 | his new wife and also Melanie , ha you know what it says on the top there |
| 20 | you know , you know what it looked like . |
| 21 | He said , ‘ Well , you know what it sounds like , ’ and of course we said , ‘ No , we do n't . ’ |
| 22 | I know what it means to me . |
| 23 | Erm once you sort of crack the code and get into it , things you 've never heard of when they come up you when you know the system you think , Oh well I know what I know what it means by that . |
| 24 | Erm personally , er on the nuclear er atomic side , we we 're very involved with our own company , with B N F L at Sellafield , with the er manufacture of the precast concrete and , and I know what it means in terms of the , the safety incurred in in , in the design because it is quite erm er strenuous the things we have to go through . |
| 25 | We can draw anything in the world if we know what it looks like , but only when drawing a human being can we truly say we know what it feels like . |
| 26 | We can draw anything in the world if we know what it looks like , but only when drawing a human being can we truly say we know what it feels like . |
| 27 | So at least now we 've got a specification to go to , w we know what it looks like and er we 've had one or two quotes in the past week and for firmed those up now and chosen exactly what we want them to do . |
| 28 | I know what it , I know what it costs for that sort of wood . |
| 29 | We recognize a sign as a set of letters on a page , or an intelligible series of sounds , or an iconic device , and in the same perception we grasp what it stands for : signifier and signified together make up the sign . |
| 30 | The whole operation does not so much aspire to style as do what it pleases with it . |