Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [conj] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am immensely kindly supported in my lonely periods here by a whole host of interesting and talented friends — nearly all of whom are John 's age or nearer yours as it so happens . |
| 2 | The black cloud fizzed its way towards them until it almost filled the screen . |
| 3 | It was because I was subconsciously sure of them that it never occurred to me that I could be rejected . |
| 4 | ‘ Master Cook ! ’ he said , ‘ I do n't know what was in that flame pot of yours but it undoubtedly saved the day and many noble lives . |
| 5 | His artistic bravura may well have been inspired by his sense of himself and it certainly encouraged him to become increasingly subjective . |
| 6 | " His dad tried to knock it out of him but it never made no difference . " |
| 7 | THE Government 's Homeswap Scheme is designed to help council and Housing Association tenants exchange properties but so few people seem aware of it that it hardly works . |
| 8 | However , with all these reservations and qualifications noted there is a city called Tyneside and in 1989 North Shields is part of it as it always has been and Cramlington is as it has been since the early 1970s . |
| 9 | He was a dangerous individual , capable of anything if it seriously threatened his position as the leader of Russia . |
| 10 | There was the sound of a car behind them and it suddenly became very light . |
| 11 | Fearon looked temporarily nonplussed , then shrugged , tossed the towel back into the bathroom behind him where it presumably landed on the floor and growled , ‘ All right , I 'll show you around . |
| 12 | Delaney thought about it , and decided it did n't make sense , unless it was looking for something that it badly needed . |
| 13 | I told him that I did n't mix with them and it never came into my life or my conversation . ’ |
| 14 | Yet if we deny the creature this understanding , which even Clark himself seems to acknowledge , yet insist with him that it nonetheless fears death , then it is in the distinctly paradoxical position of fearing something of which it could not , in any sense , be aware . |
| 15 | It is no longer face to face with him but is integrated with him and it progressively absorbs him . |
| 16 | Chemotherapy does not work with it and it rapidly spreads through the system . |
| 17 | Nine times out of ten you will not be paid for this advice , but do take the call and deal with it because it rapidly establishes your credibility with the CAB and will prove fruitful in the future . |
| 18 | Not that that 's unreasonable in itself but it never seems to have bothered her before since she says herself she did n't normally stay the night , even if they 'd been out late . ’ |
| 19 | Wearing so many ‘ hats ’ can be very manipulative because of being involved in everything but it also opens one up to being oppressed within the different groups . |
| 20 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 21 | For example , I want my pupils to realise deeply within themselves that it often helps to specialise — to try simple cases , systematically as well as randomly — and then to generalise — to look for a general pattern . |
| 22 | Lecturing was now easier for him than it once had been — he had , after all , accumulated a great deal of experience — but the readings of his own poetry frequently left him exhausted . |
| 23 | ‘ I know bloody well what I 'm saying , ’ Gregson snapped , ‘ and if it 's any consolation it sounds as crazy to me as it probably does to you . |
| 24 | Dredge tried to hog the credit , but it 's clear to me where it really belongs . |
| 25 | It is only relevant to you if it actually speeds up , improves , or reduces the cost of your computerized personnel information system . |
| 26 | Dean proved to be generally rude and disruptive to his fellow actors , and spent much of his free time in his dressing room , refusing to speak to anyone unless it directly concerned the film . |
| 27 | If regression can find the reason for the initial onset of the phobia — that first , frightening occasion — it may not be sufficient to put an end to it but it certainly stops the sufferer feeling that he is simply being ‘ weak ’ and ‘ foolish ’ or ( as one of my patients put it ) that he is ‘ going out of his mind ’ . |
| 28 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 29 | Some obscure threat needled her ; Jezrael could n't stop worrying at it but it never burst into knowledge . |
| 30 | ‘ Play Kylie or Jason at it and it soon dies of boredom . |