Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went where it directed her , tracing a design on the face of the Earth . |
| 2 | It collects these flakes with the brush near the end of its hind legs and passes them forward to its mouth where it kneads them with saliva . |
| 3 | While it may not succeed where it thinks it can , if it thinks it ca n't the probability is that it wo n't . |
| 4 | Academic English was a recent invention , largely of the inter-war years ; and even where it existed it had commonly stopped with the early nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Where it existed it was characteristic of states which , although they had long and proud cultural traditions , had suffered serious setbacks or for some reason lacked self-confidence . |
| 6 | Where it tells you you 're at |
| 7 | Governments , it seems , have yet to learn a fact that most smokers readily acknowledge : the tobacco industry has got them precisely where it wants them . |
| 8 | There is little right of reply on radio and television and even where it exists it is not particularly likely to be heard by the audience of the original programme . |
| 9 | career development and training , where it exists it leads to a happier employee ; |
| 10 | Where it ended I forget . |
| 11 | See a few of them , you know right at beginning where it shows you preface ? |
| 12 | Thus , these subcultures respectively enable corporate officials and lower-class adolescent males to commit crimes without too many pangs of conscience ; through their sanitizing prism , each sub-culture softens criminal acts so that they assume the appearance of ‘ not really ’ being against the law , or it transforms them into acts required by a morality higher than that enshrined in a parochial criminal law . |
| 13 | We must or it kills us ! " |
| 14 | It rejects the aspects of female subjectivity which escape conventional psychology 's boundaries , or it reclaims them ; but it does not address them directly . |
| 15 | So every time you pass an E R F on the motorway or it passes you , it 's one of our engines from that 's powering it . |
| 16 | Or it killed them straight off . |
| 17 | ‘ That kind of thing either brings you closer together or it separates you . |
| 18 | Except it struck her : what was his type ? |
| 19 | She dived into her bag and held out the necessary money , and at least it stopped him in his tracks , although it left him looking down at her with less than pleasure . |
| 20 | She had to obey her father , although it made her very sad . |
| 21 | Although it made him uneasy , he could not tell for some moments what it was . |
| 22 | The first Labour government singularly failed to do anything about the level of unemployment , although it made it easier for the unemployed to obtain unemployment relief and extended benefit . |
| 23 | Norsk Data A/S , yesterday asked for its listing on the Oslo bourse to be temporarily cancelled — for up to two months , although it says it hopes to reach final agreement with its major creditors this month . |
| 24 | So you 've got two countries next door to each other , one of which is on the whole starting into reasonably good practice , whereas the other has , although it says it has intentions of doing it , in the case of the Ivory Coast . |
| 25 | Although it killed her . " |
| 26 | Aye they did although it takes me a bit of time to think about it but erm they did have a a er a black book , aye . |
| 27 | Although it struck him as being perfectly right and natural to tear a seven-year-old boy away from his parents and send him ‘ home ’ to be educated , it also struck him that the English public school system was iniquitous , a hotbed of beatings and buggery . |
| 28 | It did not , however , initiate the longer-term processes discussed above , although it affected them in different ways — contributing to the globalization of liberal political ideas and economic policies , posing new challenges to the European integration process as the East European states seek to participate therein , and stimulating the process of fragmentation . |
| 29 | His Questions au soleil levant received the Grand Prix de Poesie de l'Academie Francaise , but although it awarded him medals , the Academy never granted him the membership that was his life 's ambition . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's still forgery , ’ said Sergeant Joe , although it amused him rather than troubled him , this gainful exercise of his talents . |