Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [verb] [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 Small and cramped although it was , it reminded her a little of Papa 's office back home : a room where a man obviously worked .
2 1 openly support the FDR-FMLN and feel that it would be an opportunistic attitude on my part to expect to act as a spiritual leader of my people after the triumph of the revolution if I were not working with them at this crucial time .
3 If you look at Algol and find that it is no brighter than Epsilon or Zeta , you may be sure that an eclipse is in progress .
4 That same day he not only thought we were in Denmark but decided that it was imperative to write three letters to his cousin Marianne in New York — simultaneously !
5 4 Did you use the VCR and monitor after it was borrowed last Thursday ?
6 Suffering fever , blindness and paralysis , they reached Lake Tanganyika in 1857 but it was Speke who eventually found Lake Victoria and realized that it was the reservoir which fed the great river .
7 Conversely , because very little substantive empirical work has been based upon the Marxist model , it is not clear from a relatively small-scale study such as that by Sankoff and Laberge whether it offers a potentially more insightful way of analysing variation .
8 Perhaps Mr Henderson , the United States ambassador at Teheran will convey this assurance to the Shah and say that it comes personally from me . "
9 The survey was mainly restricted to the exterior of the Lancaster and estimated that it would take 2,000 man hours to bring R5868 up to exhibition standards externally .
10 ‘ I thought we played better against Blackpool and lost but it 's still nice to get three points .
11 On Feb. 21 Health Secretary Alberto Mazza denied that the government would close the border with Bolivia but said that it would prevent the entry of illegal immigrants in order to stem the spread of the disease .
12 He read it through , a touch uneasy that its jocularity might displease Newton but knowing that it told Newton what he wanted to know .
13 In the Netherlands on Nov. 14 reports quoted Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers as having admitted to the existence of a secret organization in the Netherlands but denying that it was supervised by NATO .
14 A red haze swam in front of Amiss 's eyes , but he remembered the dead Trueman and waited until it had passed .
15 The proposed US-Hong Kong Policy Bill of 1991 stipulated that the USA should develop a coherent policy towards Hong Kong while recognising that it would become part of China .
16 He began to teach men and women the kingdom of God and declared that it was already in their midst .
17 In so doing he permitted Isis to reveal the name to her son Horus but ordered that it must not be told to anyone else .
18 But the location is , as it were , accidental , and contributes nothing to the tension between Circe and Persephone as it has been teased out , in this passage along with others , by Guy Davenport ( see his ‘ Persephone 's Ezra ’ , in New Approaches to Ezra Pound ) .
19 Mr Patten said this would put Britain in front of Europe but acknowledged that it may be some time before it can be implemented .
20 She looked back at Nuadu and knew that it had to work .
21 He showed me a speck on the map to the left of Hodges and said that it was named Banks Island , after Cook 's naturalist friend .
22 The coach was an Embassy staffer in Rome and said that it was twice as good having helpers who were n't parents .
23 ‘ Under the veil of darkness cities take on a universal quality ’ , thought American artist DOUG DAWSON , until he brought his pastels to London and discovered that it held certain characteristics he could n't ignore .
24 ‘ Under the veil of darkness cities take on a universal quality ’ , thought American artist DOUG DAWSON , until he brought his pastels to London and discovered that it held certain characteristics he could n't ignore .
25 For a moment , just before they left the house , as she and her aunt clung tightly to each other , the silent tears coursing down their faces , Ruth hated America and wished that it had never been discovered .
26 Now he sat by the fire with his whisky , a drink he did not care for , making conversation with Tony and hoping that it would soon be time for bed .
27 McDaid denied any links with the IRA and withdrew after it became clear that the junior partner in the government , the Progressive Democrats ( PDs ) , would not vote for a reshuffle including him .
28 Whilst operating systems as distinct as Unix SVR4 and DEC 's OpenVMS embrace the Posix standard , each has thousands of other calls beyond the specific Posix requirement , says Price , which means that it is not sufficient just to port an application to Posix and assume that it will then run on any Posix-compliant system , because it wo n't .
29 Earlier , Sharon Freda McLean denied killing Linda McMullen and said that it was co-defendant Lisa Burgess who started to kick and stamp on her in the Wrexham Peace Gardens .
30 The agreement to set up a peace conference followed a meeting of senior CSCE officials in Prague on Feb. 28 , which proposed a peace plan recognizing that Nagorny Karabakh belonged to Azerbaijan but proposing that it should be allowed self-determination .
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