Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night I opened my eyes when it was dark and feeling a sudden want of air opened the window when to my astonishment I was in time to see Oreste carried past in the arms of an angel and I wept and called out to him but there was no reply and soon they were gone up to the heavens and lost sight of . |
| 2 | I struggled on for a while , but I know my limitations when it comes to design , especially as we have grown to expect a high standard in QP . |
| 3 | But I wanted to do it , because I did n't want anyone else to be speaking my ideas when it was such a personal statement . |
| 4 | Nothing could have been less reasonable than my fellow-members when it came to paying their share of the bills . |
| 5 | To hell with it , I 'll go down fighting , it will break me on my terms if it breaks me at all . |
| 6 | The back scooped down to 4 inches below my waist , but the weight of the beads stretched the base fabric and on the dress rehearsal , much to my embarrassment , the backless gown inched its way over my buttocks until it became not only backless but bottomless . |
| 7 | I lost half of my friends when it happened |
| 8 | ‘ I took my life in my hands as it was just now — telling you so much about myself and my life . ’ |
| 9 | Nutty 's gone up north for more smelly Brits but I 'm not leaving my lovely villa and my roses so it 's civil war . |
| 10 | I never detail calorie content in my diets because it is n't necessary . |
| 11 | Its beauty lies not in its architecture , but in the magnificence of its views as it sits in splendid isolation on top of a steep hill looking down the unencumbered views across fields , moors and woodland to the river valleys of the Wye and Elan . |
| 12 | Central government provides information on its activities when it publishes its various expenditure statements . |
| 13 | Are individual Japanese so decidedly group orientated by cultural tradition or is it that ‘ in many cases they are loyal to their groups because it pays to be loyal ’ ( Befu 1977 p. 87 ) ? |
| 14 | It is July 1994 and the company has taken a relaxed attitude to preparation of its accounts since it was set up in 1991 . |
| 15 | And since the discipline can not exclude psychological subjects from its accounts as it can psychologists , it has to consider the effects of gender variations among subjects more than it does among psychologists . |
| 16 | ( 5 ) If a company issuing shares for a non-cash asset is listed , the London Stock Exchange normally requires the acquisition to be approved by its shareholders if it is a Super Class 1 or Class 4 transaction . |
| 17 | The manufacturer could impose full-line forcing , obliging the retailer to take a whole range of its products if it takes one , or tie-in sales , no X sold without Y. It could impose exclusive purchasing ( no products of a certain description to be bought from anywhere but itself ) , and may offer selective and exclusive distribution agreements ( suppliers have to meet certain criteria in order to be selected to distribute a product , and may be offered an exclusive territory or even absolute territorial protection ) . |
| 18 | In the barony of Lewes it was not unknown for heritable copyholds to be entailed , to such an extent indeed that even though the common law harboured reservations as to its legality , the judges ‘ haue bene sparinge to deliuer their opinions because it concerned very many of the kinges subjectes ’ . |
| 19 | Unfortunately for the CEGB , it could n't seize the time and push ahead as fast with its plans as it wanted . |
| 20 | Another is that the UK is abandoning its plans as it slides further into economic and technological turmoil . |
| 21 | If the truth were known , he had only acceded to her wishes because it took him away from her , allowing him access to libraries , bookshops and students of all races and creeds — many of them Irish . |
| 22 | Blood frothed at its teeth as it lashed frantically with its hooves . |
| 23 | Almost all freeholders would have taken strong exception to the suggestion that their support had been purchased , and this was as true of those gentlemen who had recently obtained posts for themselves or their sons as it was for those who had been less fortunate . |
| 24 | Furthermore , the data were based on assessments made by care staff ; in the public sector staff have an incentive to minimise the dependency of their clients as it is seen as an index of the quality of care being provided . |
| 25 | For a long moment he held her tightly against him as if he was afraid she might try to elude him , then when he seemed sure of her his hands encircled her waist , moulded her hips and moved upwards , unbuttoning her shirt , pulling it from the waistband of her jeans , then slipping it from her shoulders until it fell to the floor . |
| 26 | They got round this by not telling their husbands until it was too late . |
| 27 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 28 | The idea of the bond is both to demonstrate the financial security of the firm and to provide funds to rescue its clients if it goes out of business . |
| 29 | Mike is one of those shiny people who carry a square of bright blue sky above their heads while it rains on the rest of us . |
| 30 | ‘ They shut their eyes , little poppets , and hang their heads till it 's all over . ’ |