Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as proof in the healing power of accepted love her hands undid him , as he undid her , until , naked together , he lifted himself to enter her , and if for McAllister there was a moment of trapped fear it disappeared when she was truly his , and they were , at last , one thing , moving together in harmony in an experience quite unlike the shock and terror which she had felt with Havvie , and had always feared would happen to her if she ever made love again . |
| 2 | In practice it occurs when deaf children can write a word better than speak it . |
| 3 | just from a quick glance it looked like it would need some er work on it |
| 4 | From the nucleotide sequence the amino acid sequence of the protein it codes for can be determined and this provides an excellent starting point for finding out the role of the protein in development . |
| 5 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 6 | For a second it looked as though she would go on with the game , but then she stopped smiling and her eyes slid away from his . |
| 7 | Pebbles had to snatch up briefly to avoid scrimmaging in front of her on the tight final bend , and for a second it looked as though she might be shut in . |
| 8 | For a fraction of a second it looked as though it were going to be just that , he 'd vaulted too hard and he was going to overshoot the small terrace and land on the ugly hard shapes of the garden furniture in the basement courtyard beneath . |
| 9 | Thus nicotine makes the heart work harder , carbon monoxide reduces the supply of oxygen it needs while obstruction to the coronary arteries also occurs . |
| 10 | Your body is supplied with the oxygen it needs when it needs it to burn in its fuel mixture . |
| 11 | Although the conference was just up the road in Edinburgh this time , it might as well have been in Timbuktu for all the relevance it held for must of us . |
| 12 | Digital Equipment Corp reports that the state of Kentucky has awarded it a $10m contract to manage and provide technical and other support for state-wide educational reform ; the pact will enable DEC to start implementing a plan it developed as project consultant with the state education department — it plans to create the infrastructure for a state-wide information highway providing equitable access to technology and information throughout eight regional centres , 176 school districts and 1,400 schools across Kentucky ; the state 's public schools were declared unconstitutional in 1989 , primarily because of funding inequities between rich and poor school districts , and the new system is part of a wider plan to overhaul state schools ; it will be a model for other states in the use of technology in education reform . |
| 13 | She had turned other men — men she did n't hate — away at her door before now without going through all this prior angst , meeting the moment with the tact or firmness it required when it came , but not before . |
| 14 | Jesus had come to Jerusalem , the capital of Judaism to take on the religious authorities and at this point in time in this Gospel it looks like he 's lost , gon na be dead in a couple of days . |
| 15 | It 's reflected on a mirror so at home it appears as though she has learnt the information off-by-heart . |
| 16 | ‘ The superintendent of this building appears to be a broken reed , and unless I spend the next twenty-four hours on the telephone it looks as though we are plumb out of luck , ’ he added , throwing the phone book down in disgust . |
| 17 | Even with the drama of Munich and the prospect of war it seemed as though Alec Reid had not found time for the outside world . |
| 18 | For a moment it looked as though the desperate urgency of the international situation might enable peace activists to shift the dead weight of the party system . |
| 19 | For a moment it looked as though she was going to break down . |
| 20 | For a moment it seemed as though it had tapped some hidden reserve of strength and would ease itself up on to the opposite bank , and escape into the forest . |
| 21 | For a moment it seemed as though everyone but d'Arquebus would career back down fifty metres to the base of the tube . |
| 22 | For one brief moment it felt as though she was almost drowning in ecstasy , and then she felt Ross removing his lips , cursing violently under his breath as he withdrew his arms from about her body . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At the moment it looks as though shock Juddmonte International winner Ezzoud will come over from England and if that 's the case we could have an intriguing race on our hands . |
| 25 | At the moment it looks as though Ezzoud , who won the Juddmonte International at York will take his chance and after that shock win over Sabrehill he must be fancied . |
| 26 | At the moment it looks as though Ezzoud , who won the Juddmonte International at York will take his chance and after that shock win over Sabrehill he must be fancied . |
| 27 | Try not to respond the moment it ceases as this suggests to the dog that it can get its own way by behaving in this fashion . |
| 28 | ‘ Maybe they should build a police station on the site it looks as though it could come in very handy in the future … ‘ |
| 29 | On the outside it looked like something left over from the siege of Leningrad in 1944 , but inside everything was in immaculate white , including a large wrinkled matron who proceeded to give the medico a verbal roasting , followed by expulsion from the premises . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |