Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right where it meets which is there . |
| 2 | ‘ That kind of thing either brings you closer together or it separates you . |
| 3 | ‘ It suits me better than it suits him . ’ |
| 4 | Her gown looked expensive , Ruth thought , but it would have suited her mistress better than it did its owner . |
| 5 | Simply apply lateral cyclic and tail rotor commands to bank and turn the model so that it presents its side view to the direction of travel . |
| 6 | If in the peg and socket arrangement the true priorities were the alignment and the contact then we might redesigns the whole thing so that it looked something like the drawing shown here . |
| 7 | He absently slid his programme nearer to her so that it touched him now , glancing at her out of the corner of his eye . |
| 8 | If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur . |
| 9 | She did nothing to improve her appearance ; her flaxen hair was cut short so that it fitted her head like a helmet and accentuated the angularity of her features . |
| 10 | She had taken in the grey dress so that it hugged her thin body more closely , but that was her sole concession to fashion . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What we discover within this secret part of ourselves is an inner being , a soul , an inner mind , and inner life , an inner subtle-physical entity which is much larger in its potentialities , more plastic , more powerful , more capable of a manifold knowledge and dynamism than our surface mind , life or body ; especially , it is capable of a direct communication with the universal forces , movements , objects of the cosmos , a direct feeling and opening to them , a direct action of them and even a widening of itself beyond the limit of the personal mind , the personal life , the body , so that it feels itself more and more a universal being no longer limited by the existing walls of out too narrow mental , vital , physical existence . |
| 13 | A good horse trainer teaches a horse good habits so that it does what he wants it to do automatically , without it learning any undesirable behaviour or bad habits in the process ; but a poor trainer often finds that his horses learn something unwanted at the same time . |
| 14 | If , for example , your downstairs neighbour allows his flat to become damp and infested with woodworm so that it affects your flat , you can claim against this insurance . |
| 15 | Sharpe twisted the map round so that it faced him . |
| 16 | It was a size too small , but finally the leather stretched so that it fit her like an elastic corset . |
| 17 | In the essay ‘ Theatum philosophicum ’ ( 1970 ) , written shortly after the Archaeology , Foucault attempts to avoid the snares of the problem of the relation of the event to the totality , or the particular to the general , that beset both Sartre and Althusser , by arguing that the event as event is only constituted through its repetition in thought as a ‘ phantasm ’ : ‘ it makes the event indefinite so that it repeats itself as a singular universal ’ . |
| 18 | This dietician saying that the architect w wants to know all about endoscop what it involves , so that it gives him an idea as to what is about . |
| 19 | ( 1 ) If seeing something is like eating it with the eye , so that it gives us sensations in our eyes as eating manna gives us ‘ sensations of sickness , and sometimes of acute pains or gripings ’ in our stomachs , then what physically enters the eye comes to have an importance not only for understanding the physical mechanism of visual perception , but also for understand the concept of visual perception . |
| 20 | Try a recording in which the camera looks at the class the whole time so that it gives you the teacher's-eye view . |
| 21 | stuff and gets thrown out , so that it cuts everything , cuts it all out . |
| 22 | We need to know how to prepare for sleep so that it refreshes us . |
| 23 | Telling one 's own stories to children of different ages is extremely satisfying and also shows you where you went wrong in the rhythm of a sentence ; unconsciously you alter it to fit the audience in front of you and get it right , so that it makes its point swiftly and powerfully . |
| 24 | And we can agree all of that , so that it makes it easier for storage |
| 25 | You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long . |
| 26 | The package also comes with a data compression utility that works ‘ on the fly ’ so that it expands your files while they are being used , before re-shrinking them once you have finished using them . |
| 27 | It coincided with his drawing back from her so that it appeared he was the one to call a halt first . |
| 28 | It is to have failed to give the transcendence of God its proper cash value , to have weakened it so that it means something like ‘ outside the solar system ’ or ‘ above the galaxy ’ . |
| 29 | Although entrance is free we have to lay aside everything to enter through the narrow gate , so that it costs us everything . |
| 30 | Is it possible to work out some fancy way of writing this headline , so that it implies its meaning ? |