Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment before it separates itself from its surroundings I catch a glimpse of its round eyes , beautiful but stupid , taking in the sight of a forty-three-year-old writer wearing shorts and a faded polo shirt , his face somewhat craggier than he sees it in his mind 's eye , his waist a little more solid and his eyes bright with the thoughts he is generating . |
| 2 | It impresses itself upon you subliminally . |
| 3 | A rite is part of the culture the individual is born into , and it imposes itself on him from the outside like the rest of his culture . |
| 4 | It is also shocking because it confronts us with her body , an old woman 's body with cancer , only touched when it is being cut or hit . |
| 5 | The secret of Proudfoot 's success is hard to encapsulate but it owes something to its leadership in productivity consultancy , advice which is likely to have enduring appeal when times are hard . |
| 6 | That just depicts the same structure in terms of constituents and sub-constituents , so the whole thing is a sentence which in the bracketing notation just has the sentence with its bracket and the other bracket 's way down the other end , and this is mirrored by the label sentence occurring at the top of the tree , it means it covers everything below it roughly . |
| 7 | It 's classed as being a conifer but it looks nothing like one . |
| 8 | It appears to be a rather desolate place with wide windswept prairies ringed by snow-capped hills , but it has plenty of what the ferrets need : prairie dogs . |
| 9 | From its famous tower to the imposing Sacre Coeur and Arc de Triomphe it has something for everyone . |
| 10 | The guest bedroom is a small room with a tiny window , and it has nothing in it but a single bed , a lamp on a nightstand and Jesus hanging , plain and formidable , above the bed , I sit above the covers , staring into space . |
| 11 | Although it has none of your words on it , nor no other mark of you , I have by slow degrees and probably much self-deception turned it into a love letter from you . |
| 12 | Now one of them seizes me , and it is n't a man , it 's an octopus with claws — it holds me in its tentacles , its talons dig into my flesh and my blood drips out through the holes in my flesh and my blood is n't red human blood , it 's black like tar , like drops of liquid evil … |
| 13 | Does n't , it holds it all , it holds it in its , in itself |
| 14 | It knocks you on your heels does n't it ? . |
| 15 | It adds nothing to our understanding , Skinner argues , to talk of its frame of mind . |
| 16 | Do you not think that I mean the people who were saying keep them there they 're saying it adds something to what 's in the city centre do you not agree ? |
| 17 | It depends which of us has the most patience . ’ |
| 18 | It tyrannises her for its decoration , care and well-being . |
| 19 | ‘ Because the music that they constantly play , it says nothing to me about my life . ’ |
| 20 | It is an accurate statement of the difference of definition between void and voidable contracts , but it says nothing of their different effects . |
| 21 | ‘ It eats me to my bones . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Well , I hope it sustains him on his long journey into obscurity , because I intend to make sure Michael Stein never works in the travel industry again . ’ |
| 23 | That tremendous happening in that man 's life , and it links it with he present and it applies to you and to me and says , this can be our experience as well . |
| 24 | It 's true that it seduces us with its pulse-quickening thrill , but it also serves as a privileged glimpse into the paranoia , loneliness and tunnel vision of the male survivalist . |
| 25 | It may still bear the scars of our occupancy , of out botched attempts at DIY , but it vacates itself of our memory as soon as the new people move their stuff in . |
| 26 | In many other cases it may be difficult to decide whether a signal is or is not deceptive ; but if the signal concerns something over which the animals are competing , it may evolve by an arms race of deception and the discovery of deception ; but if it concerns something over which the animals are co-operating , it may evolve to become more accurately informative . |
| 27 | It emphasizes everything around you . |
| 28 | It keeps you on your toes ! ’ |
| 29 | It keeps us on our toes . |
| 30 | Did you know Jehovah 's organizations always changes , not with it , but to combat it that way it comes to work , it keeps us alive , it keeps us on our toes , and so we could go on and on in saying well look keep away , stay awake and do everything that we should and , and we can stand here for the rest of the talk saying well do it , do it , do it but that 's easy for me to do that is n't it ? |