Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] it [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish he had n't of got it cos Sue wants it when he 's finished with it . |
| 2 | Frankie calls it as he sees it about the moral and social decay of contemporary Britain without ever sounding like someone whose grasp of the issues extends no further than memorizing a snappy slogan . |
| 3 | Well , er I asked this , because erm , when I was having my house it came up , and I and I pointed out to her th the astonishing anomaly , I said , look erm , everybody knows about manuscript , Ernest and his biography of Freud mentions it and says he read it and reports rather well of it , actually , was really quite impressed with it . |
| 4 | Schumpeter advocates it and describes it as being ‘ that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people 's vote . ’ |
| 5 | Reggie loves it as I say my nephew bought me two |
| 6 | Professor Daniel Bell of Harvard puts it as follows : |
| 7 | It still has to be decided whether IBM sells it or how to avoid confusing users because of IBM 's ties to Apple . |
| 8 | Although no precise consortium bank definition exists , the Bank of England defines it as one owned by other banks in which none has more than 50 per cent ownership and at least one shareholder is an overseas bank . |
| 9 | Bernice Martin describes it as follows : |
| 10 | The one is the passive and the other the active form of a single human truth , as Dostoevsky sees it and realizes it fictionally . |
| 11 | Nicholas Hall of Colnaghi sees it as ‘ one more thing to encourage people to become collectors , since they 're not burying their money in their paintings . |
| 12 | We talk about whatever interests us perhaps for the same reason that Willis draws it and paints it . " |
| 13 | Dr Gibson ignores it and translates : ‘ as the corner stone of our entire case , ; more cautiously , I translate : ‘ as a final strength ’ . |
| 14 | JIM Oag means it when he says : ‘ The world is our oyster , it 's fantastic . ’ |
| 15 | Ah , ’ Samuel commented , eyes now anywhere but on Gwendolen ‘ how cruel is age , how poignantly Mr Dickens portrays it and how recognisable even today is Miss Peepy . ’ |
| 16 | ( The NCC publishes it and provides it free from its Peterborough Headquarters . ) |
| 17 | Cos they , Shirley loves it as well . |
| 18 | Jesus uses it when he confronts the disciples after his resurrection : ‘ Why are you so perturbed ? ’ he asks . |
| 19 | Sydney dealer Tim McCormick rates it as among the top two or three Australian private collections , along with Holmes à Court 's and corporate collections Wesfarmers and Smorgans . |
| 20 | Whether Gedge likes it or not , many people consider the band to be his creation . |
| 21 | And that , whether Professor Bourdieu likes it or not , we can learn a lot about modernism and postmodernism by close analysis of its corpus . |
| 22 | Montgomery defines it as follows : |
| 23 | She never lea where Lee leaves it and then Sunday he says oh god I 've got |
| 24 | Nicky loves it when Squeak cleans her , right , my rats and she gives it and Nicky 's getting all and there 's Squeak going |
| 25 | Erm I 've got a well Mike has it but erm a transcription machine that takes minicassettes and also has a recording thing with it that makes absolutely excellent recordings . |
| 26 | This gentle admonition did little to still the clamour of unilateralists in the churches ; yet there must surely be many Christians who have retained enough faith in divine Providence to believe that the world will not end unless God wills it and that , if He does , it will be for the best . |
| 27 | When we help them God sees it as helping him ; when we are kind to them , God counts it as a kindness done to him , and so on . |
| 28 | ( One may well hold that such mere consciousness is an impossibility , but Moore treats it as making sense . ) |
| 29 | But we should note that the 1747 image shows a scene where only principals are singing ( Zaslaw identifies it as Act 5 , scene 4 of Lully 's Armide ) , whereas in 1745 dancing is in progress . |
| 30 | A sinister rumour from Japan has it that the yakuza , the indigenous mafia , have joined the game , lending money at usurious rates to art speculators and taking the painting as collateral . |