Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard ignored this because it did n't seem to him quite to the point . |
| 2 | Spenser approves this because it does not drain English resources through having to keep a large standing army in Ireland . |
| 3 | But the figure leapt through the air onto the next shelf and Endill watched helpless as it disappeared into the darkness . |
| 4 | The Egyptian foreign minister , Amr Moussa , made it clear he expected Israel to offer more than it has so far to return the deportees to their homes in the occupied territories . |
| 5 | I was sitting on the sofa , quietly crying ; I think I was wishing that Auschwitz looked better than it did , just now , with its windless heat and plagues of flies homing in on the marshes . |
| 6 | The plaintiffs ' underlying complaint seems to be that C.M.C. borrowed more than it needed and spent more of the borrowed money than it could afford to spend , with the result that there was a loss for which the plaintiffs have been held personally liable as guarantors . |
| 7 | There was an area of bruising below the right eye but , although it was recent , Wycliffe felt sure that it had been inflicted some time before death — probably the day before . |
| 8 | Following the Tustain decision both limbs of this test are satisfied before the institutions invest , and it is no longer necessary to show that Newco remains close after it has actually acquired the business and commenced trading . |
| 9 | Prussia became aware that it had lost parity with its allies from the Napoleonic years and determined to catch up by creating a series of technical schools — later to include Danzig 's Technical High School for boys and the famous Conradinum — and by beginning to investigate and research industrial techniques . |
| 10 | The story , which traces some of the bad feelings Novell harbours towards Microsoft to the spoiled deal , says Novell got skittish after it shared inside information with Microsoft and then found it was secretly negotiating to take over Fox Software . |