Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a limp , he had a false leg , and of course , when you 're kids it strikes you as very funny to have a woodwork teacher with a wooden leg , so he 'd say , ‘ What shall we make today , kids ? ’ and we 'd go ‘ Want another leg , sir ? ’ and things like that . |
| 2 | To Joyce 's eyes it seemed she " Always had an abundance of confidence . |
| 3 | ‘ The whole journal appears to have been written in South Africa but he moved to Cape Province , and from later entries it seems he was in contact with Cecil Rhodes … ’ |
| 4 | Since DOL is hopefully making a comeback this evening for the reserves it leads me to this question . |
| 5 | I urge you to join the campaign , to read this leaflet and to take the opportunities it offers you to make your contribution to building a greener world for yourself and your children . |
| 6 | The rewards for those working in BP come in the quality of the opportunities it gives us for the future . |
| 7 | The long button displays the underlying data form — in other words it lets you return to the form you initially filled in to create the slide . |
| 8 | So for the meanwhile I continued with my ritualised observances , obsessively counting the number of steps it took me to walk to any given location , carefully avoiding the cracks in the pavement for fear that the bears of the id might get me , and attending to my bodily functions with the pure metrical devotion of a sadhu . |
| 9 | As a result , more than 70 per cent of the population now have a Current Account and are enjoying the many advantages it gives them — cheques , instant cash , Standing Orders and Direct Debits . |
| 10 | And after several attempts to break the shell open by picking it up and dropping it onto the rocks , well that did n't work , so the bird picked it up and then from a about a height of twenty feet it dropped it onto the rocks below . |
| 11 | I was never asked to discuss the final Report with her or with Mr Baker , so I can not be sure about her reasons , but from her radio and television appearances it seemed she found repugnant our insistence that a child 's dialect is not inaccurate in its use of grammar and should be respected . |
| 12 | So in order to be true , Rabbit 's statement must be correlated with what in the circumstances it says it signifies ( namely honey ) . |
| 13 | And in its attempts to obey , the Anglican branch had evolved ad hoc , adding to itself bits and pieces to meet needs it thought it perceived . |
| 14 | For years it seemed they were common enough to turn the competitive paradigm into something of little practical use . |
| 15 | ‘ Five years it took them , the first tae of them spent in these waters , so Ah would guess Darwin 's first tentative thoughts about the origins of species started here . ’ |
| 16 | For several years it appears it remained empty , but by 1845 was back in business , with tenants John and Edward Wise producing cloth . |
| 17 | This is some of the questions it asks them . |
| 18 | Beca becaus needless to say Windows has not examined all the things it wants you to fix . |
| 19 | I try to lead as normal a life as possible and not think about my condition or regret the things it prevents me from doing , which are not that many . |
| 20 | ‘ After a lifetime of keeping pigeons it makes you feel you do n't want to carry on , ’ he said . |
| 21 | In due course we shall see that people 's standard of living hinged broadly on their position in the landholding hierarchy , and it will be necessary to examine this after reviewing the material conditions it enabled them to enjoy . |
| 22 | At eighteen thousand pounds it cost them their combined life savings . |
| 23 | And flipping , twenty five pounds it cost them to get into the . |
| 24 | which it ca n't be right cos , I suppose in a way it 's none of our business but it is I mean if it gets to it , it puts our company in financial difficulties it means it 's jobs on the line int it that sort of thing |
| 25 | And in county circles it seems they 're still as popular as ever . |
| 26 | Traditionalist to the core , the Legion fully encouraged the romanticism of escape from ‘ real life ’ and forgetting , because in practical terms it gave them that much more control over their members . |
| 27 | But pause for a few moments with the two names it introduces us to — Robert Taylor , the author , and the book 's recipient , Percivall Pott , whose characteristic signature it contains . |
| 28 | Here , I 'd like to say that I , I do very much welcome the abandonment of the two wayside routes it gives me particular satisfaction because you recall earlier in the year there was some irresponsible press comments on the subject which greatly upset a lot of people |
| 29 | Secondly having put up this message when I try to exit windows it tells me that 1-2-3 is still active but I can not find a way to deactivate it . |
| 30 | When reading through church magazines it seems it is one long appeal for cash , even until the present with appeals for the heating , eradication of deathwatch beetle and the most recent , for tiles for the church roof . |