Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [pers pn] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | *John wound up the toy car so he wanted it to go . |
| 2 | A fourth idea implicit in the concept of non-justiciability is that of expertise : a court might decline to review a decision or action if it felt it lacked the skill , expertise or experience to judge the issues raised by the dispute . |
| 3 | Explanations in the intentional mode express the relation between the action and the reason ( e.g. , John wound up the car because he wanted it to go ) . |
| 4 | John wound up the toy car because he wanted it to go . |
| 5 | She was overcome with emotion when she discovered it had been well cared for . |
| 6 | A fresh tide of light was rising through them both , the erotic becoming a visionary toil as he watched it sweep over their skin , its brightness intensifying with every thrust . |
| 7 | The tragedy of Oedipus Rex was given archetypal significance by Freud when he claimed it encapsulated the universal unconscious wish of young boys to dispense with their fathers in order to establish an exclusive claim upon their mothers . |
| 8 | That was going to be in May so we needed it to ship in April so I said , well you 've got to you 've got to still finish it at the same time . |
| 9 | It it goes further south than I thought it did . |
| 10 | Er a pair of shoes if you bought it had to last you a long long time . |
| 11 | ‘ The car was so badly crushed that I thought about asking the boss if he wanted it posting back . ’ |
| 12 | The village when they reached it consisted of three dozen palm-thatched huts raised on poles ten feet above the ground . |
| 13 | He loved the way she looked , with her glossy chestnut hair which reached below her waist when she let it loose , and her tinkle of necklaces and trails of silk scarves , and her neat slender legs in their high-heeled shoes , reminding him of gazelles ' legs or gazelles reminded him of her , he supposed , since he must have seen her first . |
| 14 | The committee 's proposed remedies for the defects of the law as they found it appear clearly from the foregoing paragraphs . |
| 15 | Erm , er , erm , people could extend her times if she did it like she used to do before , because what she used to do is to say she would have a a day in Manchester in a months time |
| 16 | I avoided the chocolate cake because I thought it looked a little sickly . |
| 17 | It took time , it took time , it took a period of years till they got it finalized but when we got it finalized , we had for example er welding areas , in which no one was allowed in unless they were a welder you know . |
| 18 | Well it 's years since I thought it had gone bust |
| 19 | When she did get it in at last , she had to be careful not to trap its tail in the lid when she slid it closed . |
| 20 | She was grey haired , quite dumpy with a white coat on and she came to collect sperm if you wanted it stored . |
| 21 | I mean erm the , I mean , erm the closest I ever get to sort of news design is redesigning the Oxford University Press Gazette , and one of the first things when they said it 's got to go A four was well in that case you 've got to staple it , because you ca n't have thirty-two , sixty-four pages A four sort of doing that . |
| 22 | I zipped back along the M20 , letting Armstrong have his head as I thought it made a nice change for him not to plod through heavy traffic at ten miles an hour . |
| 23 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success . |
| 24 | Not through your mouth , through your nose , anyway it must of righted itself , she 's still full of cold but you know , when you get that achy feeling cos she said it aches |
| 25 | Without consulting the master layout plan I have no idea which square yard H24/V72 occupies on the pitch , once the biggest in England until former manager Billy Bremner lopped off a few yards because he thought it put the team at a disadvantage when playing away ( they must now be regretting all those lost square yards they could be selling ) . |
| 26 | We both had anoraks but Oliver would never pull up his hood because he said it made him look like a monk and he did n't want to endorse Christianity . |
| 27 | Alarm bells rang with Liz when she heard it tells the story of an ageing , boozy Hollywood star who falls for a young construction worker she meets in a clinic . |
| 28 | Endill held his breath as he watched it laugh and nod its head at what it was reading . |
| 29 | It does n't seem two minutes since I saw it last oh big fat tummy , big fat tummy or what ? |
| 30 | A friend of a friend had recently married through Dateline so she thought it seemed worth a try . |