Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I make one remark about my life and it reverberates right through every else I do . |
| 2 | I spend a lot of time with a lot of girls , it 's my job , I do n't want one of them to run her fingers through my hair and it come away in in her hand you know that 's |
| 3 | It moulded itself about her waist and it felt warm and rather safe , as if it might be armouring her against the evils in here . |
| 4 | Anyway , that was the theory about her disappearance and it changed from being a theory to being referred to as what had probably happened and then later still it was accepted . |
| 5 | I did n't want to lose any of my squad and it makes my job a little bit easier this summer . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's written at the front of my note-book and it says ‘ Private ’ in case you had n't noticed . ’ |
| 7 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 8 | The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips . |
| 9 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |
| 10 | All pairs go through this sequence irrespective of their sex and it ends with a clear dominance — subordination relationship in which grooming indicates compatibility and resolution of tension . |
| 11 | It undertook to grade all departments according to the quality of their research and it inaugurated a series of subject reviews . |
| 12 | In the West , the time of retirement for many people is the end of their usefulness and it means for them no more than a hopeless waiting for them . |
| 13 | It was none of her business and it mattered to her not one iota . |
| 14 | ‘ Final details are still to be agreed , but I took along the usual samples of your work and it looks as though she 'll want to incorporate feature tiles and maybe also a patterned frieze . ’ |
| 15 | Colleagues , can I now take , er , a moment of your time and it gives me very great pleasure to call upon the President to deliver his address to congress . |
| 16 | She could feel his heartbeat against her breast and it gave her a feeling of longing she had never experienced before . |
| 17 | Riven stabbed his knife in deep behind its ear and it went limp . |
| 18 | ‘ I would have had it done , ’ said the owner , a small , pale woman , ‘ but I 'm selling up to go and live with my sister and it did n't seem worth it . ’ |
| 19 | nearly killed herself , she stuffed a up her fanny and it stuffed all her |
| 20 | The agency must first of all set up an inventory of the assets under its control and it disposes of either the management or of the ownership of the assets vested in it . |
| 21 | Gets it across , controls with his right foot , strikes with his left and it cannons back off a defender and gets it away . |
| 22 | As Endill ate his breakfast he felt a thousand eyes watch him put his cold piece of toast into his mouth and it sent shivers down his spine . |
| 23 | in fact all of our horses main meeting , me mother and Jim they were all up and running and if , they were front runners , you know and they were all finished and James he backed a two hundred to one shot , I says you 're joking , aye it was up there with 'em mind and it finished twelfth , he said well it was a good bet |
| 24 | Erm , I I heard something over the weekend , that that erm , mentioned er an American drug company , that has come up with whatever drug and it 's moved from being a million pound concern , into a multi-million pound concern , because of these discoveries , |
| 25 | They also play havoc with your skin and it tends to get a bit sweaty under all the make-up I have to wear . |
| 26 | How it 's here and there and the other the other sort of hear you hear with your ear and it 's got an ear inside it . |
| 27 | I suppose we thought Vic must have said try it this way because Matt and I were already into our quarrel and it shows what a pro he was to his fingertips that he carried on as per normal . |
| 28 | The other side of that is that I was listening to Medicine Now on Radio Four , and they 've got a device where they you actually have er an earpiece put into your ear and it clicks continuously . |
| 29 | Molly removed the rags that Mary had put in my hair and it fell down in ringlets . |
| 30 | The most frightening is rainforest destruction , and being a carpenter and joiner by trade anyway I have used many threatened species in my past and it seemed a good thing to start with . |