Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should develop it ourselves quite energetically before it gets monopolised from other quarters . |
| 2 | She was not content to be insulted in cafés by waiters more rude than any to be found in Northam ; she could not accept the lowliness of her status , for it seemed to pain her more abroad than it had done at home , and she felt that she should somehow have escaped it , that she should have been changed , somehow , into something new . |
| 3 | ‘ God , ’ he muttered against her neck , ‘ you can be the most impossible woman I 've ever met , but I want you so badly that it hurts . ’ |
| 4 | In addition , the new knowledge about economic and demographic change in the past has suggested that it is urgent to reconsider several aspects of the received wisdom about the industrial revolution , notably the assumptions made by contemporaries about declining marginal returns in agriculture ; changes in the occupational structure of the English labour force before and during the industrial revolution ; and , more generally , the viability of the concept itself so far as it connotes a unitary and progressive phenomenon . |
| 5 | Correctly named Limnanthes douglasii , the seed is readily available and , when conditions suit , it seeds itself so readily that it becomes self-perpetuating and can even become invasive . |
| 6 | Nigel and Rosamund Starmer-Smith 's tragic loss of their daughter , Charlotte , has clearly affected many of you as deeply as it has us . |
| 7 | They say that nobody remembers who came second but when that has happened to you as often as it has to Montgomerie , it is difficult to forget . |
| 8 | ‘ And perhaps I should remind you that the contract you 've just cited binds you as securely as it does us , unless you 're willing to face interminable legal hassles in an effort to extricate yourself . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ That kind of thing either brings you closer together or it separates you . |
| 10 | The design point is a good one so far as it goes … |
| 11 | It does n't come to me as easily as it does to you . " |
| 12 | I could sense Lili turning her head to look at me , but the urge to talk , to confess , had left me as suddenly as it had come . |
| 13 | It suited him less well than it had Zacharias . |
| 14 | By this finding himself relieved , he again resumed his studies until the hour of dinner , when the disorder again attacked him so violently that it produced a fainting fit , which held him till the evening ; he went soon after to bed , and passed a very uneasy , restless night . |
| 15 | New life , green as the holly leaf , was at work inside him as surely as it stirred inside his wife . |
| 16 | Moran hardly heard ; all resentment left him as quickly as it had come : McQuaid was here and it was Monaghan Day . |
| 17 | The smell of oil clung to her as strongly as it did to the rags in the van . |
| 18 | He had schooled it so well that it received the implications of that entire passage of information with no expression at all . |
| 19 | As she returned to her nest , looking around her , she could see it so clearly that it made her laugh . |
| 20 | They 'd get so much grain and they 'd eat it so quickly that it swelled out before they had time to digest it . |
| 21 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 22 | Do n't leave it any longer or it becomes hard to control . |
| 23 | Do n't use the other person 's name or use it artificially so that it jars . |
| 24 | Miss Merchiston went to the last door , thumped twice on it with her clenched fist as if by such violence she announced her coming , and threw it wide so that it bounced off the wall with a crash . |
| 25 | " Take a quart of green gooseberries boil them and pulp them thro " a sieve , take the whites of 3 eggs , beat them to a Froth , put it to the Gooseberries and beat it both together till it looks white , then take ½ pound refin 'd sugar , make it into a Syrrup with Spring Water , boyl it to a Candy , [ i.e. to the small thread ] let it be almost cold then put it to the Gooseberries and Eggs and beat all together till t is all froth , which put into Cups or Glasses — Codlings [ green apples ] may be done the same way . |
| 26 | The food that India produces does not find its way to the people who need it as efficiently as it did in the Maharashtra drought . |
| 27 | ‘ I have no future but my children and my wife will take it as far as it goes . |
| 28 | If , on the other hand , you judged the conversation you heard to be trivial and inconsequential and found yourself only selecting certain parts of it : if you changed it , rewrote it , rethought it completely so that it accorded with your own notion of how that conversation should have proceeded , then you are another sort of writer . |
| 29 | The lovely negro spiritual ‘ Balm in Gilead ’ expresses it very well when it refers to ‘ the sin sick soul . ’ |
| 30 | Not only was the CEGB pursuing it too slowly but it had underestimated the potential , he argued . |