Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [conj] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but it keeps together The idea that they 're going to broke up br broken up into competing er items , worries people in my constituency and it also alarms me . |
| 2 | I 've got a spot on my chin and it really hurts . |
| 3 | So much so , that I missed my stop when it finally came round and I ended up stranded in a place called Parliament Hill Fields , where you ca n't get a bus or a tube anywhere except back to the BBC . |
| 4 | erm so cautious or adventurous , I think most people do n't , I mean I 've got adventurous on my form but it never gets ticked , because nobody 's adventurous when they retire . |
| 5 | You just made me kick my ankle and it really hurt . |
| 6 | A Bill may well be approved , if time is available , in which case whether it ever completes its course depends entirely on whether there happens to be sufficient time . |
| 7 | Under s1(1) of SGSA 1982 it would seem that an exchange contract comes within its purview since it generally applies to contracts where " one person transfers or agrees to transfer to another the property in goods " . |
| 8 | I think we 've all gradually come to terms with Jennifer 's condition and learnt to make the best of it … but … ’ she stared at her telephone as it suddenly rang , her thoughts obviously far away ‘ … but I do n't think I 'll ever forgive David Markham for the way he treated her , ’ she said at last as she stretched out her hand to answer the phone . |
| 9 | In contrast , the middle-class Bleak House admits the light and air of day through its open windows , and is so fertile in its humanity that it even gives birth to another , the ‘ rustic cottage of doll 's rooms ’ which shares its name , prepared for Esther by Mr Jarndyce on her marriage to Alan Woodcourt . |
| 10 | The core of the Institute 's research is described by its title but it also contains strong research groups working on plant and fungal physiology , biochemistry and taxonomy . |
| 11 | She felt the beat of his heart against her breast but it only came halfway to comforting her . |
| 12 | She disliked losing her temper against her will because it rarely achieved useful results and symbolised impotence rather than strength : always better to channel anger than display it , she thought . |
| 13 | However , the adventurers ' problem is not how to get it to do their bidding , but simply how to evade its fury when it finally escapes centuries of unwilling bondage . |
| 14 | But instead of looking at her , he was staring down at her hand where it still lay on his arm . |
| 15 | Local communities thus had to find more money to fulfil even their admitted obligations under the statute of 1327 , and the regular wearing of military uniform , which began in the 1330s , added to their burden since it too had to be paid for by the community . |
| 16 | Erm the questions you were asking just now were testing a possible implication that this policy is so weak in general , no no not weak , so general in its application that it really does n't get in the way , it 's testing that kind of hypothesis , and erm all I can say is from experience in North Yorkshire that , even without this policy since nineteen eighty , the county has been using its assertion of its need to protect the countryside generally as its policy position to stop things happening outside towns and villages and that with this policy in place we could see that a general position of the county maintained and then reinforced . |
| 17 | As a result landowners only ‘ owned ’ the existing use rights of their land and it thus followed , first , that if permission to develop was refused no compensation was payable , and , secondly , that the price paid to public authorities for the compulsory acquisition of land would be equal to the existing use value , that is , its value excluding any allowance for future development . |
| 18 | In particular , he seems to have clashed with the IS lobby , with its own project-related concept of study skills and its conviction that it alone had the knowledge and experience in this field . |
| 19 | County did not declare its interest since it technically did not own the Union Bank holding , and its market maker was exempt by law from disclosing holdings bought in the normal course of business . |
| 20 | About half the throws hit their target and it generally takes eight direct hits and about five minutes to crack the egg open . |
| 21 | He opens his mouth and it almost spills out , the bitter refusal : no . |
| 22 | ‘ He talked about his work and it immediately struck me that , as a professional doctor , he had an almost unhealthy interest in the more sordid side of sex , ’ she says . |
| 23 | Once more , the critics placed his work where it honestly belonged , in the basement of B-movies , as were his next two , Back Door to Hell and Flight to Fury , both directed by Monte Hellman . |
| 24 | He had a vicious side to his nature and it apparently meant nothing to him that an old man was going to be roughed up during the raid . |
| 25 | He came back to school after Christmas with 4 of them stuffed in the back of his mini and it just went from there . |
| 26 | His mind busied itself with images of what this news could do to his investigation if it ever became public ; the newspaper headlines ; the half-amused speculation of the cynics ; the crowds of sightseers , the superstitious , the credulous , the genuine believers , thronging the church in search of … what ? |
| 27 | Mr Malik lowered his nose until it almost touched the bails . |
| 28 | Today his walk did not hold his attention as it usually did . |
| 29 | The publicity may not exactly have gone to his head but it certainly set fire to his ambition . |
| 30 | Section 142(2) provided that where a person had been convicted by the magistrates when he had pleaded not guilty or been convicted in his absence and it subsequently appeared that it would be in the interests of justice that the case be heard again by different justices the court might , subject to sub-section ( 4 ) so direct . |