Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for them it feels like such a disaster after the first phase , that they do n't know what to do about it . |
| 2 | ‘ Their first goal was down to a mistake and the second was so easy for them it defies belief . |
| 3 | For them it begins to be present as an ‘ insiders ’ experience . |
| 4 | A number of Community Mothers and parents have become more involved in community activities such as mother and toddler groups and Adult Education programmes involving literacy and personal development as a result of their contact with the Community Mothers programme , so that once the process of change and empowerment has begun for them it develops a momentum in other directions . |
| 5 | Their closeness was less due to their nearness in age — though with only eighteen months between them it had been easy for them to grow up with similar interests and shared confidences — than to the fact that neither of their parents had ever made much of them . |
| 6 | Pointing out the differences between them it added : ‘ And now ? |
| 7 | For me it raised a number of questions . |
| 8 | It was a 15- to 20-footer , and luckily for me it went in . |
| 9 | Once you got into the C C Q erm for me it sounded like a string of questions erm I could n't hear any at all or any open questions into any of the answers that were given to you on question . |
| 10 | This was a brilliant performance , and for me it brought back nostalgic memories of Windrush , and the summer days of 1940 . |
| 11 | It follows that there is a close , but quite unexplored , relation between discourse deixis and mention or quotation ; thus in the following example ( from Lyons , 1977a : 667 ) : ( 91 ) A : That 's a rhinoceros B : Spell it for me it refers not to the referent , the beast itself , but to the word rhinoceros . |
| 12 | Quite for me it depends on i i in a sense I think it 's perhaps more subliminal . |
| 13 | For me it occurs on the train from Oran to Algiers . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , for me it lacked the warmth and character of something like a Marshall JMP-1 , a hybrid Crate or the American Carvin Quad-X , all available for around the same money . |
| 15 | For them the time must have flown by , but for me it seemed as if I 'd been standing out there all morning ! |
| 16 | It seems ironic that that for me it seemed |
| 17 | It is is n't it ? it seems ironic that for me it seemed such a big thing , in case you still need it clear I was William 's nephew . |
| 18 | Back in the Met Office , for me it meant a completely new set of faces . |
| 19 | For me it meant more than that . |
| 20 | For me it begins to be noticeable at the railway station where I get off the train each evening , and becomes gradually stronger , like a magnetic field , as I walk up the hill . |
| 21 | But for me it fails to provide an easily understandable route to the basic explanations which are lurking there wrapped up in just too much verbiage to be really accessible . |
| 22 | It was an exchange — for me it has to be . |
| 23 | I have a certain nostalgic respect for that kind of 1970s ' ultra-Leftist-womanist impossibilism , but for me it has two major problems . |
| 24 | For me it has become almost comically prolonged , because it seems to have very little to with the colour of my hair . |
| 25 | It was going to be used as a gardening shed for tomatoes but for me it has been the history and finding out about its past that has been the fun . |
| 26 | ‘ For me it 's been exactly the opposite ; I 've never been healthier — and I 'm much more religious than when I started doing this . |
| 27 | ‘ The Square itself would have looked nothing like this in Cadfael 's day , but for me it 's got a lot of atmosphere and history . |
| 28 | But for me it 's been well worthwhile . |
| 29 | I was on 1,000 grams of that a day , now I 'm on 187 , so although I 'm still on medication it 's a very minute amount of medication to what I was on before , and I 'm existing on that , so for me it 's worked . |
| 30 | The BC system , extending backwards from the birth of Christ , was occasionally , used by Bede , but after him it lapsed until the fifteenth century . |