Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you know that at the same time as you could clout them you 'd actually die for them also if it came to the point . |
| 2 | More than that , and far worse , he is aware that he could not have it for himself even if it did exist . |
| 3 | Some movement , the barely audible sound of a door opening and closing , then the monkey 's body clock got the better of it again and it fell asleep . |
| 4 | What they do not see , of course , are the tears at the sheer frustration of it all when it hits home at two in the morning . |
| 5 | It was assumed that schools would be using the materials and theme for about twelve periods a week for six weeks , as Miss Garnett noted : " This is probably as long as the steam stays in a theme for this age , and nobody should feel embarrassed about pulling out of it quicker if it seems right to do so " ( Leicester/Leicestershire Curriculum Development Project 1970 : I ) . |
| 6 | Of course , one has to be careful in this context to recognise that many of the infractions I 'm referring to are not necessarily offences AGAINST others — but represent errors of performance , imperfections which reflect badly on the offender — so that one undertakes remedial work , NOT for the purpose of making amends but to re-draw the picture of oneself so that it corresponds more closely to the one which one would like to project to the world at large . |
| 7 | Of course , by that evening I could n't think of anything else and it set up a pattern of repetition which I followed once I went back to London . |
| 8 | It walks on only five of its legs and holds the sixth out stiffly behind it so that it appears to have a sting projecting from the tip of its abdomen . |
| 9 | I said the libraries are closed on Wednesdays and Fridays , why do n't you come to the library with me today because it 's closed on a Wednesday and Friday . |
| 10 | I want to recount an experience that has stayed with me ever since it happened , something that transformed an uneventful journey home from work . |
| 11 | He had travelled back to Keswick with her even though it had not been his previous intention to do so . |
| 12 | We agreed to have him for a fortnight but when the time came he refused to go , and would be with us yet if it had not been for the First World War and your father having to go … |
| 13 | He had blushed at the thought and turned quickly away , but as time passed he found that he desperately wanted to share his secret with her ; until then he 'd always confided in her unhesitatingly and it seemed strange that something should now make him hold back . |
| 14 | It stirred the man in him even as it gored him . |
| 15 | It appeared that more was required and Liz , resenting the inanity thus forced upon her even as it passed her lips , found herself saying ‘ And how are you looking forward to the 1980s ? ’ |
| 16 | It coincided with his drawing back from her so that it appeared he was the one to call a halt first . |
| 17 | To somebody else then who wants to live in it just till it 's built ! |
| 18 | Yes that was counted in it too and it had to be well parked . |
| 19 | The fire dropped all round it so that it disappeared in the rolling orange and curling black . |
| 20 | Put some of the icing sugar mixture on top and carefully mould the paste round it so that it covers the icing sugar . |
| 21 | I 'd recorded some background music for her too and it did n't sound as if she 'd added to her collection . |
| 22 | Punk did n't mean shit to a palm tree to them even if it meant so much to us . |
| 23 | ‘ Peter began and explained everything to them precisely as it happened ’ ( Acts 11:4 ) . |
| 24 | I suppose I was kicking over the traces a bit and parental authority seemed as irksome to me then as it does to teenagers today . |
| 25 | Basically you 'd er just stand back and ha Actually in my platoon of fifty men it happened to me more than it happened to anybody else because I came from Glasgow . |
| 26 | It made as little impression on me then as it does now . ’ |
| 27 | But the existence of these functions does not mean that the towns depended on them exclusively and it did not prevent them from acquiring others from the normal expected range . |
| 28 | The theory gives an account of what it is for a belief to be luckily true , as follows : the extent to which a 's belief is luckily true is the extent to which even if it had been false , a would still have believed it , or if it were in changed circumstances still true , he would still believe it . |
| 29 | The only thing that was any dearer to him now than it had been when he started was his picture of the murdered woman . |
| 30 | He absently slid his programme nearer to her so that it touched him now , glancing at her out of the corner of his eye . |