Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you 'll just have to cry Bryony because you 're going to have them on because it keeps raining . |
| 2 | ‘ It suits me better than it suits him . ’ |
| 3 | every so often , they 've got these little card things well they shove them in and it clicks all these numbers up so I used to buy one token |
| 4 | But someone discovered in China that you could put them together and it went off with a bang . |
| 5 | I mean they , and also a lot of people are shy to once as erm , someone 's put up someone else and it 's been seconded by two people on the committee they feel there 's no point in |
| 6 | Some will actually feel that they are inside the body of the former self , and that everything is going on around them just as it does in ordinary life . |
| 7 | Cat owners are sometimes distressed by the fact that their favourite and much-loved cat leaves them shortly before it dies . |
| 8 | I suppose they 're very good and all in white and very ‘ county ’ like those awful people you got to ask me over and it turned out they were n't expecting me at all and there were four of them anyway . |
| 9 | More than that , and far worse , he is aware that he could not have it for himself even if it did exist . |
| 10 | But even this , Wemmick decides to keep to his life at Walworth and not let it be mentioned in Little Britain which even though it seems odd , stays within the boundaries of his character which Dickens has been building on . |
| 11 | The theory gives an account of what it is for a belief to be luckily true , as follows : the extent to which a 's belief is luckily true is the extent to which even if it had been false , a would still have believed it , or if it were in changed circumstances still true , he would still believe it . |
| 12 | I 'd make it me business to er yes and course it was to his trade good jobs as he 'd done for customers , had it done so well , they told somebody else and it brought in trade , see what I mean ? |
| 13 | He 'll have to show people round at low tide , and get them off before it turns . |
| 14 | I want to recount an experience that has stayed with me ever since it happened , something that transformed an uneventful journey home from work . |
| 15 | Too many coaches want to impose a technical straightjacket on their pupils , which can destroy them more than it improves and helps them . |
| 16 | Oh well tick me off if it does |
| 17 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 18 | Gushing statements to the young person about how this is for their own good , or ‘ this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you ’ ( attitudes which are still prevalent ) are quite unhelpful , virtually damaging in fact . |
| 19 | Simon by then had heavily said , ‘ This hurts me more than it hurts you ’ to Pippa , and when the chaos was over Thomas began to laugh , for he had seen that the lash of the crop literally had curled round onto Simon 's back between each stroke , probably quite stingingly , though the man had been too excited to notice it . |
| 20 | ‘ This hurts me more than it does you . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ How can you say it suits me more than it does Dana ? |
| 22 | Basically you 'd er just stand back and ha Actually in my platoon of fifty men it happened to me more than it happened to anybody else because I came from Glasgow . |
| 23 | Well I 'd never seen them , I do n't say it turned you on but it made you |
| 24 | There are other signs that the club is stirring itself commercially as it responds to the needs of its growing membership . |
| 25 | If you were aboard a vessel that was either going to go up or drag you down when it sank , what would your natural reaction be ? ’ |
| 26 | Whether shorter or longer , the important thing is to make it serve you so that it becomes not a burden but a means of personal reflection and integration . |
| 27 | And it , you do n't have to keep changing all the paper , you just and it does it . |
| 28 | The high-pitched kettle may not be audible , but the automatic kettle switches itself off when it boils . |
| 29 | The recession has nearly blown itself out but it has left the Government with a massive deficit of £40bn-£50bn and this will have to be funded through gilts , cost cuts or taxes . |
| 30 | I think perhaps that I actually needed to be able to think the worst of you , however personally unpalatable that worst was to me , as some sort of a defence , so that I could despise you even if it meant despising myself as well . |