Example sentences of "[pron] it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I mean I had so I it did help .
2 Could do without my it 's grown to nothing since I moved !
3 I do not think I can bear this , thought Grainne , but even as the thought was framed , she knew that for someone it had had to be borne , there had been no escaping it , this bottomless dark pit , this vast endless night sea …
4 I , when I ass when a policeman assaults someone it has got to be justified .
5 And the Sainsburys , Tescos and Safeways of the world are the people with the financial clout and organisational know-how to spend the £15million or so which it takes to buy the land , negotiate the planning hurdles , employ a builder and stock the shelves to open a new superstore on a good site .
6 A day did n't pass now during which it failed to occur to her that she had borne two congenital liars .
7 This section briefly sketches some elements of a culturally constituted image of Semai reality , and the motivational context which it helps to define .
8 A fallible observation statement might be rejected and the fallible theory with which it clashes retained .
9 DRA says , however , that Praxis is doing ANDF work on a mystery chip for OSF which it declined to identify , except to say it was n't the Transputer ( the 88000 perhaps ? ) .
10 There are those who love to confuse the fundamental issue of power by talking about ‘ legal definitions of sovereignty ’ , claiming that because these are outdated , Westminster should hand over the powers which it does have to Brussels .
11 The strength of the , corporatist perspective lies precisely in the extent to which it does deal with the substance of state intervention and with the implications of the particular stage of capitalist development .
12 The annoyances , injustices , and setbacks from which it suffered seem small in retrospect , but they preyed on the minds of its members at the time .
13 The generalized class of examples which it recognises consists of all which produce a sum close to K.
14 In response the World Bank in September outlined changes which it said took account of the report 's criticisms .
15 El País of July 8 noted González " reticence on the question of human rights , which it said resulted from the Spanish government 's hopes of turning to its advantage a downturn in Morocco 's relations with France [ see p. 38354 ] .
16 The government statement said that Keeling had been expelled because of unsavoury reports about the Nigerian government , which it said had been " fraught with inaccuracies and outright fallacies apparently intended to cause mischief and disharmony among Nigerians " .
17 Radio Lebanon said on Feb. 18 that a " mass exodus " was taking place , following an ultimatum which it said had been issued to civilians by the SLA and Israel .
18 Negotiations to overcome generations of hatred and conflict between Arabs and Jews stalled in December , when Israel expelled 415 Palestinians which it said had links to militant Muslim fundamentalists .
19 THE Kremlin ordered four restive Soviet republics last night to drop a series of controversial new laws which it said contravened the constitution , Tass reported .
20 THE Kremlin ordered four restive Soviet republics last night to drop a series of controversial new laws which it said contravened the constitution , Tass reported .
21 The Association of Metropolitan Authorities welcomed the commission 's conclusions , which it said confirmed its own survey last December showing soaring arrears in England 's big cities .
22 But the general issues which it poses do have importance for understanding contemporary family life and responsibilities .
23 The Auditing Practices Board 's discussion paper on the future direction of auditing ( see p 88 ) has been given a warm welcome by most of the profession , and the debate which it hoped to stimulate is already underway .
24 The Ministry of the Interior , anxious about the security implications of labour unrest , experimented from 1901–3 with police-run labour organizations through which it hoped to direct working-class energy from political towards purely economic and cultural aims .
25 The common dolphin has a total of 180 teeth , which it uses to hold the captured meal fast while it is turned around to be swallowed head first .
26 How close it approaches a food item is dependent on several factors , because the bream , in common with other bottom feeding fish , has the facility of extending lips which it uses to suck and blow a food item to clean it before consuming it .
27 There is often political pressure on a company from the country in which it operates to allow a greater degree of control to be exercised by the country concerned .
28 In fact , however , Dworkin 's rather rigid division of labour , and the inflexible institutional framework in which it operates appears ill-equipped to ensure that the best or fairest policy decisions are reached , particularly during a time of rapid political economic and social change .
29 The UK government reportedly favoured the principle of " subsidiarity " [ see also p. 36741 ] , which it took to mean that decisions should only be made in Brussels which could not better be taken at national level .
30 The effect of giving non-reinforced pre-exposure to the target flavour was to reduce the readiness with which it came to function as a safety signal — that is , the outcome was the opposite of that predicted by the suggestion that the pre-exposed stimulus might already have acquired some of the properties of a safety signal .
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