Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble with winning , she explained , was that it left her with bad memories rather than good . |
| 2 | It is simply that it left us stranded . |
| 3 | Chemistry had also had symbols , but the problem was that it had them in profusion . |
| 4 | That it had it head bit off by it young ’ |
| 5 | Compaq Computer Corp says that the restructuring of its field and reseller support operations in the US to increase interaction with its broadened customer base and provide enhanced support to its resellers ( CI No 2,148 ) , will cost about 150 field employees their jobs , but the loss will be partially offset by an as-yet-undetermined number of employees to be hired at the company 's Houston headquarters as part of the reorganisation ; the 150 to go are the last of the 1,000 jobs that it said it planned to cut in October . |
| 6 | One of the key determinants of US policy towards Iraq last August was that it believed it has the military forces sufficient to evict Iraq from Kuwait . |
| 7 | But you 'll never have the strength to send me away — you 're so weak , Bob , that it embarrasses me — and in the end the job will fall to me ; I shall have to send myself away . |
| 8 | If the theory that DNA and its copying machinery arose spontaneously is so improbable that it obliges us to assume that life is very rare in the universe , and may even be unique to Earth , our first resort is to try to find a more probable theory . |
| 9 | Gedge 's infatuation with Rigby was so powerful that it led him to agree that Duane , a guitarist , could join the group . |
| 10 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 11 | He absently slid his programme nearer to her so that it touched him now , glancing at her out of the corner of his eye . |
| 12 | Suppose that the increase in the money supply is announced in time to be included in that agents fully believe the central bank , and that the central bank behaves in period t in the way that it announced it would behave at the end of t - 1 . |
| 13 | Can he pick up a tin of beans without feeling that it hates him ? |
| 14 | Her Finals were approaching , and she had no idea of what she should do next , and indeed did not dare to think about the future for she knew that it offered her little in the way of readily acceptable projects . |
| 15 | Terence Davies has apparently emerged from the representation of his social origins smelling of Art , and it is this very concept which mainstream criticism just can not get enough of , for at its best ( its most effective ) it denies the social world at the very moment that it represents it . |
| 16 | The third thing about that is that it represents us saying continuum . |
| 17 | The way I viewed training was that it got me out of the house . |
| 18 | Yeah it wants to be just enough inside here that it frightens them . |
| 19 | And if they think that it suits them to shift a factory to the Philippines because there wo n't be an inspection there , that 's what they 'll do . |
| 20 | ‘ But that does n't mean that it suits me , Aunt Louise . |
| 21 | Was he so wrapped up in his beautiful secretary that it blinded him to everything ? |
| 22 | So keen are GKR not to be identified with the less ethical and aggressive end of the search market that it maintains it frequently turns down business ; from any other search firm , this statement might be questionable , but GKR 's standing in the market , and the obvious importance of its untarnished reputation in gaining that position , suggests that it is probably the truth . |
| 23 | With dark hair cut quite short so that it revealed his classically shaped head , a deep tan finished with some light freckles , piercing blue eyes and a mouth that was generous in laughter and very straight and sober when he was absorbed in work , he had become the standard against which any other man she met was measured … and fell short . |
| 24 | In fact , one of the things that had pleased her about her daughter staying in London was that it kept her away from Seaton Cramer Hall . |
| 25 | The other reason she had disappeared with the juniors was that it kept her out of Jack 's way . |
| 26 | The point of my argument is that sometimes authoritative intervention creates that prospect , and that it creates it because of its authoritativeness . |
| 27 | She was as much a part of this murky landscape now as if she had been born here , every step of the way between Miss Gemma Dallam 's cloistered corner and her own — in spirit a universe apart — being so familiar to her that it seemed she had always known them , or had known them before , in another place , a dozen other places ; another life . |
| 28 | Sometimes she was so funny that it seemed she ought to be given a show of her own . |
| 29 | One drawback of the Masters for married men , who want to see the last putt in , is that it requires them to creep to bed as if they were returning from a night club . |
| 30 | The advantage of the design is that it allows us to exclude other explanations . |