Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my day it even faced the other way . |
| 2 | The weather has also been reasonably kind , so it 's a bit of both really — with the sun on my back it definitely helps me to perform a lot better . ’ |
| 3 | When people write nice things about my food it always sounds like they are referring to someone else … ’ . |
| 4 | This was a shrewd political gibe , but like so many of its kind it entirely missed the point at issue . |
| 5 | The difficulty with any kind of platonism that claims the ontological primacy of qualities — or any kind of universals — is that in presenting its case it implicitly relies on certain assumptions about existentially unique particulars , which no sooner are made explicit than the whole platonist case is shown to be built on sand . |
| 6 | In which case it also seems a small price to pay for the next generation of senior managers to be blooded . |
| 7 | The Goths , the Franks , the Angles and the Saxons had converted to Christianity but in the absence of an effective establishment to instruct them in their faith it inevitably remained superficial . |
| 8 | But to her mind it still did not excuse his neglect of everything else . |
| 9 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Computer Co is determined to be recognised as a genuine contender in the mass market , and to demonstrate its commitment it immediately responded to the Compaq Computer Corp price cuts with cuts of its own in the US . |
| 10 | Not only that , but because of its simplicity it also costs much less in terms of administration and accounting expertise . |
| 11 | Yeah , but even with all those things in their favour it still takes fifteen months ? |
| 12 | Two blocks away from the house of her childhood it suddenly occurred to her that her mother might have left , that there might be strangers in the hallway , a different set of curtains hanging at the windows ; her father 's study might have been turned into a playroom for a new generation of North Oxford children , so different from herself in her prim Clark 's T-bar sandals that she would not be able to recognise her own infancy in theirs . |
| 13 | ‘ Most textile plants are built near a big sewerage plant , not in the middle of the countryside like ours , ’ explained Dai Jones , whose responsibility it soon became to find a means of solving the problem . |
| 14 | Chamber Chairman Nigel Parriss , whose brainchild it all has been , was amazed by the amount of interest that has been generated . |
| 15 | Four samples of typing had subsequently been brought to Wickham , each identified by the registration number of the machine and the name of the person whose desk it normally stood on . |
| 16 | There was little mirth among the film crew , least of all from Raymond Cusick whose job it suddenly became to pull a last minute rabbit out of the hat . |
| 17 | It was built as a defence against the Russians , on whose border it still stands . |
| 18 | The dual source of the state 's role in hegemony helps us understand the limitations of the state in respect of the alliance whose power it also represents . |
| 19 | What makes it possible to ask meaningfully in respect of a given existent not only in what way it qualitatively differs from any other type of existent , but what makes it numerically , existentially unique ? |
| 20 | It takes honestly it takes so much willpower to grow your hair it really does . |
| 21 | Right , cos , it 's like everything , it 's like your weight it either goes up and up and up or it goes down and down and down , you 'll never hold it the same |
| 22 | when you turn your key it suddenly clicks and it clicks the thingy forward |
| 23 | ‘ Your place it never threatened . |
| 24 | whatever you want , whatever you want to do , whatever you suggest to your councillor it never gets anywhere , it never gets anywhere |
| 25 | Opportunity does n't only knock on your door it almost batters it down ! |
| 26 | Remember that when a rabbit comes through your boundary fence onto your land it automatically changes ownership . |
| 27 | Drugs might make people schizophrenic — or the system , as Laing was suggesting whichever way It certainly reflected it . |
| 28 | Further , we concur with the presentation of the non-financial information and represent that in our view it fairly describes the various operating business segments of the Group . |