Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [pron] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like my father , when he was , when my mother first started going with him he used to smoke cigarettes quite hea heavily erm and er when he had a cold or something like that he 'd say , oh I must have a fag it helps me bring the phlegm up so erm in some ways they 're almost perceived as having a like a cur curative er |
| 2 | ‘ It helps me forget the office for a while . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't care what they ask me if it helps them find the real killer . |
| 4 | I 'm sorry I ca n't boil all this information down , but I hope it helps you prepare a brief for Peter Johnson . |
| 5 | Because it helps you make a real and personal contribution to your child 's education . |
| 6 | And it helps you get a good night 's sleep . |
| 7 | ‘ It helps you take a broader view , ’ said Martin , attending his second such seminar . |
| 8 | Importantly , too , it helps you understand the often alien terminology used in today 's teaching . |
| 9 | It feels something like a late-'60s Gibson J-45 — in fact , a comfortable , all-rounder kind of profile . |
| 10 | ‘ It lets us enter a more open dialogue , for mutual benefit . |
| 11 | We can accept the less than perfect aspects of a friend — it 's their lack of perfection which makes them endearing , because it lets us have a fault or two ourselves . |
| 12 | It lets you eliminate the cabling and software problems that occur with Remote Network Spooling . |
| 13 | They do n't get much more out of it than they would from reading a James Bond paperback , but it makes them understand a few of the problems the field men face . |
| 14 | It makes me feel a bit funny being in the dark for so long . |
| 15 | I erm am obviously feeling guilty cos I 'm not feeling guilty but it makes me cough a bit to go to the post office every week and get vastly more disabl disability er invalidity benefit than he gets , vastly more . |
| 16 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 17 | It makes me seethe a bit when they say ‘ You do n't work here , do you ? ’ |
| 18 | I board the plane feeling no pain , eat the evening meal and continue with the G&T theme , land in Gatwick and make the connection via the smoking area of the bar and another gulped Gordon 's , then pass on the second offered dinner but not the accompanying booze and quietly pass out somewhere over the West Midlands , to be woken by a dishy blonde with an impudent , dimpled smile and we 're here we 've landed we 've arrived , we 're on the stand at the airport and I 'd ask her what she 's doing later because I 'm drunk enough to not care when she says ‘ No ’ as she probably will , but I know I 'm too tired and besides my left eyelid 's stuck again and I suspect it makes me look a bit like Quasimodo , so I do n't say anything except , ‘ Uh , thanks , ’ which is cool or sad , I 'm not sure which . |
| 19 | It makes me look a liar . ’ |
| 20 | It makes me jump every time . |
| 21 | Small beer to the police , but it makes you feel a fraction unwanted . |
| 22 | but as a group of people er you can support each other , it makes you feel a bit happier about complaining . |
| 23 | Just thinking about it makes you feel the sun on your skin and taste the freshly grilled sardines and the prickly vinho verde . |
| 24 | Andy and I had already split up before their thing got going , but even so , it makes you think a bit . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It makes you think a bit . ’ |
| 26 | It makes you black the leather coat ? |
| 27 | That orange dress would be lovely at a party , but it makes you look a bit arty and hippy . |
| 28 | This was because Lydia 's red frock bore another message , which went : ‘ This red frock is more chic and expensive than anything which you possess , and it makes you look a provincial old trollop in your mock Chanel suit . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Of course it makes you look a lot older , ’ he added thoughtfully . |