Example sentences of "[conj] [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | or my sister gives it Sam ! |
| 2 | Unix , meanwhile , derives its greatest unequivocal advantage from kernel robustness , where its maturity earns it a high degree of reliability . |
| 3 | She might fight him , resent him , even hate him for condemning her on Matilda 's word alone , but she could n't deny his need or her longing to satisfy it . |
| 4 | The day-to-day management is in the hands of the managing director , and if the number of members or the importance of the functions of the association or its character justifies it , a supervisory board may be created . |
| 5 | He 'd never seen his mother or his father reading it , but once he had opened it himself . |
| 6 | If I am warned that my weight makes it highly likely that I will suffer health problems in hot climates , the probability of my being ill is reduced if I do either one of two things — lose weight and/or avoid the tropics , Thus , I have some choice about my life . |
| 7 | My husband was here and he was a great friend of my uncle so my uncle arranged it all . |
| 8 | Yet we felt we should give this fellow a chance , so my wife put it in a box and set it on top of the Aga . |
| 9 | Except my mum does it now though . |
| 10 | The proper reply , which accepts the fact that we may rightly have some suspicion of a view on the ground that its proponent wants it to be true , is that the satisfactions afforded by indeterminist as against determinist claims of one kind and another are far greater . |
| 11 | Even though its population was overwhelmingly German , the politicians rightly considered that its position made it vital to the Polish economy . |
| 12 | In this last case the prime purpose of the prize is to benefit its giver ; if Barclays Bank had to pay for the column inches of publicity that its award brings it every year , there would be no Barclay 's Prize . |
| 13 | So flowers keep their nectar behind locks to which only a small group or even a single species has the key , which is of such a specialised design that its owner finds it difficult if not impossible to use on any other flower . |
| 14 | She felt somehow that her sister needed it , for it seemed only too probable that if Rupert was interested in any woman it was in Ianthe . |
| 15 | Except that her figure made it look good anyway . |
| 16 | It is now called The Cottage , but Mrs Smith remembers that her father-in-law bought it in the early thirties and referred to it as ‘ the Doctor 's House . ’ |
| 17 | When John Peter , no doubt in a state of some alarm that his scholarship had provoked such a response , offered to publish a retraction , Eliot 's solicitors wrote in March that their client considered it " neither necessary nor desirable " for any such retraction to appear ; their client would take the very gravest view of any " further dissemination " of the article or its contents , which he had read " with amazement and disgust " . |
| 18 | For much of the last millennium , the Caucasus was nominally part of the Persian empire , although its inaccessibility made it largely independent . |
| 19 | What is striking about the Information Workstation Group 's efforts is that their actual study of multimedia is far better than their attempt to define it . |
| 20 | ‘ Beryl would n't look after the baby so her sister took it temporarily , but then Beryl really was ill with poliomyelitis so the little boy stayed with her sister . |
| 21 | Convinced that education was the prime path to political formation , he became a schoolmaster and , although his socialism made it hard to find a place , he was appointed to one by the Govan school board . |
| 22 | He curled away so close that his wash disturbed it . |
| 23 | Chuter was widely expected to be offered the new position , and Spracklen believes that his offer to take it on unpaid was ‘ an embarrassment ’ to the ARA . |
| 24 | Certainly she had seen something moving in the forest that day on Ridgery Steep , something fairly large , something white , and Allen had failed to see it ; but then it was possible that he had not looked in the right spot at the right moment and that his failure to see it was an accident . |
| 25 | It was after the 1990 England v Ireland game at Twickenham that Paul Ackford casually mentioned to one of the Irish players that his team knew it had only to withstand Ireland 's 20 minutes of blood and guts to win easily . |
| 26 | A nine year old child bought petrol from the defendants after falsely stating that his mother needed it for her car . |
| 27 | Why his Lordship should have concluded that the facts did not give rise to the issue is unclear , but subsequent events have shown that the decision has been of much greater importance for the scope of the right of public meeting than his Lordship imagined it would be . |
| 28 | Make sure that your text makes it clear where the quotation comes from ( see pp. 107 – 8 ) . |
| 29 | Well I think you , you , you 've got , well you 've got , if you 're gon na work overtime , you 've got to make sure that your productivity justifies it . |
| 30 | The potential of joy is vastly greater than our capacity to absorb it all . |