Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] [coord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stab a fork into my fried egg and it bleeds yellow over the bacon . |
| 2 | This is my second letter and it serves notice that should it provoke no reply it will be followed to Keswick by its author , bent on meeting his old and gallant friend Colonel Hope , who he had heard was passing through those parts for a short while to expedite some business before moving on to another country . ’ |
| 3 | I get a sudden pain in my left eye and it starts streaming . |
| 4 | It was my first play and it came about by accident , evolving out of that Tolstoy play I was supposed to adapt for the BBC . |
| 5 | Well I 'm actually in my own office but it joins on to another office |
| 6 | I remember I did a talk at Rudolf Steiner , a private school in Devon , to a group my own age and it went really well , so there are exceptions . |
| 7 | School spokeswoman Mary Thomas said : ‘ This is the first time we have staged My Fair Lady and it has proved a resounding success . |
| 8 | I 've I 've got a knitting machine and I worked out how to do it on my knitting machine and made a cot blanket for my newest grandchild and it does really look very effective . |
| 9 | It was easy to keep promising that some sun and heat would work its usual miracle but it had been a hard , cold winter and almost everyone had suffered from influenza , Mrs Browning worst of all . |
| 10 | It had its posh end and it had its rough end and it had that strange indeterminate bit in the middle that was neither , but had the pretensions and failings of both . |
| 11 | In the 1960s , the Fraternity of Salvadorean Women sought to incorporate women into the political opposition through addressing their specific needs and it has functioned as something of a model for the organizations founded in the late 1970s . |
| 12 | The Piggotts reached the final in 1979 at their second attempt and it has taken them 13 years to get as close again . |
| 13 | That was how she 'd done it — she 'd touched them with her warm love and it had been too much for the Worm 's heart of hatred . |
| 14 | They 're about this big and you squeeze its little paw and it plays a Christmas tune |
| 15 | Splashing through the dark flood , I was again throwing myself at the door when a key turned in its great lock and it opened . |
| 16 | It had its posh end and it had its rough end and it had that strange indeterminate bit in the middle that was neither , but had the pretensions and failings of both . |
| 17 | And she came in and she had this , this baby , and it was her thirteenth baby and it weighed fourteen pounds . |
| 18 | This tendency is proud and secure in its bureaucratic status and it identifies equality ( antiracism ) with efficiency and good management practice . |
| 19 | A good deal of the letter was fantasy on the part of its sixteen-year-old author and it ended with a great flourish of romantic rhetoric . |
| 20 | The company developed HFCS in the 1970s ; now soft drinks giants such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi use it instead of sugar to sweeten almost all their non-diet brands and it has 30 per cent of the North American sweetener market . |
| 21 | This in turn offers trainees the possibility of taking an objective look at their own performance and it gives trainers the chance to assess that performance . |
| 22 | It was not clear enough to protect the sellers from the consequences of their own negligence and it did not apply when the sellers had delivered something wholly different in kind from that which had been ordered . |
| 23 | Manufacturers wrote their own copy and it appears very naive now . |
| 24 | ‘ There are an increasing number of executives looking to break out of the corporate hierarchy and run their own business and it appears that MBIs are catching up with MBOs as a method of achieving that goal . ’ |
| 25 | In 1889 a Select Committee heard another plea from a male trade unionist for the restriction of married women 's work on the grounds that ‘ when the married women turn into the domestic workshops they become competitors against their own husbands and it requires a man and his wife to earn what the man alone would earn if she were not in the shop ’ . |
| 26 | Clifford Howard commented on how Hollywood could ignore all criticisms as ‘ mere wind ’ and ‘ envy ’ for it had made a success of its own business and it had displayed ‘ a Yankee genius for sensing the taste of the public and giving the world what it wants ’ . |
| 27 | That was completely her own idea and it worked brilliantly . |
| 28 | It was , of course , hilarious in itself but then I got this bit of smoked salmon ( coloured red of course ! ) and draped it across her upper lip and it looked a bit like a moustache . |
| 29 | The fog had made her eye-black run and it lay in ridges in the lines under her eyes ; her hair was hanging in strands from under her hat . |
| 30 | It was its last run and it finished up at Priory Heath erm was on the Gainsborough route . |