Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | They know better than anyone that all the badmouthing of men they could manage would not begin to balance the inequality they experience when it comes to the job market — fewer opportunities , low wages , nonexistent child-care facilities and a hopelessly uneven battle to survive if , for example , the father of their children jumps ship and fails to pay any maintenance . |
| 2 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 3 | It 's pretty good fun — I like the noise it makes when it breaks . |
| 4 | This will induce Division B to operate at the level we want as it will perceive that its profits will be maximised there . |
| 5 | They are now working on a centralised system for spare parts , so that a customer in Spain or Switzerland can be found the part he needs whether it 's in Germany , Italy or France . |
| 6 | Your body is supplied with the oxygen it needs when it needs it to burn in its fuel mixture . |
| 7 | A parcel sent with Amtrak is given a unique barcode at the start of its journey which means the company can keep track of it from the moment it leaves until it reaches its destination . |
| 8 | It is believed , as already mentioned , that one of the greatest pleasures for a child comes from the security it feels when it knows that it is loved , and it is the ability to withhold manifestations of that love for a little while , or threaten so to do , that provides a non-violent means of securing acquiescence when it is required . |
| 9 | ‘ Whoa ! ’ is constructed slyly , so from the outside it looks like it was made by tramps in their lunch hour , but in reality it is a nifto exercise in song-building that starts off quiet and nervous and by the end is running about the room shouting and pouring lager into flowerpots . |
| 10 | Yet a business has no ‘ score ’ to play by except the score it writes as it plays . |
| 11 | It is a liquid protein that they squeeze from little nozzles at the rear of the abdomen which hardens as it meets the air . |
| 12 | In 1977 Hunt said : ‘ I intend to keep going full chat until the day I retire because it makes sense . |
| 13 | ‘ But I have , dear boy , and I know the tomb you mean though it is not by Taddeo Duodecimo as attributed . ’ |
| 14 | I chose the example I did because it gave an important history of another library , Glasgow , and because it had also belonged at one time to the Guildhall Library , which had passed it on to them . |
| 15 | ‘ If you do n't ask him with 100 percent commitment and effort he wo n't do it , yet the feeling I got when it suddenly clicked was just amazing ! ’ |
| 16 | It was all so sudden that the universe had no time to lose the smoothness it had when it was the size of an atom . |
| 17 | You will be expected to keep a drink diary throughout the course , and make attempts at reducing the amount you drink if it is greater than accepted healthy drinking levels . |
| 18 | Deconstruction is the form it takes when it turns its attention to specific texts . |
| 19 | I even joined a group for divorced men but in the end I left because it fed my negativity instead of alleviating it . |
| 20 | Witnessing is as much about showing people Christianity in the way we live as it is about explaining Christianity by the things that we say . |
| 21 | In a grammatical gender language , nouns are placed in classes not according to their meaning but according to their form — for example , the patterning of their inflectional endings — and the way they behave when it comes to the agreement of adjectives , articles and pronouns ( the technical term for this is ‘ concord ’ ) . |
| 22 | He 'd forgotten about the way it flickered before it came on properly and made a noise . |
| 23 | It would be difficult to add it in the way you suggest since it would have to be poured . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We 'd seen so many terrible pictures on TV and when we arrived in the country I wondered if it was all true . |
| 25 | Perhaps she heard his steps before he knocked — she opened the door very quickly — and he wondered for a moment if she had been as she had when he last saw her , standing just inside the door , her head on one side , listening , as she had listened to the bombs , and to the siren she heard before it was sounded . |