Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have made a major contribution to the overall income of pensioners , while all that the Labour party has to offer is inflationary erosion of savings , a failure in home ownership and many other schemes that Labour has offered ; although such proposals make it seem that pensioners are better off , because they are offered with other features , in reality it is a small percentage rise . |
| 2 | The light shining through her roughly heaped haycock of hair made it blaze so you might have thought you could warm your hands at it . |
| 3 | Leaked accounts say it finds that army units were far more deeply involved in the repression than were the navy , the air force or the police , whose chiefs have all taken command since the coup of 1973 . |
| 4 | ‘ Angalo thinks it matters if it 's true . ’ |
| 5 | I know for a fact she 's had her eye on my mother 's matinée jacket collection for years and when I once , in passing , said I wondered what happened to those old prosthetic devices in the estates of deceased senior citizens , Madge let it slip that she knew a way of turning a Zimmer frame into an attractive lamp ! ’ |
| 6 | Corbett let it drop as the trumpets brayed again and royal serjeants-at-arms , staves in their hands , moved into the hall and began to impose order . |
| 7 | The individual responsible for this unacceptable behaviour shall remain nameless protect his listening and viewing ratings suffice it to say that his name suggests that he is capable of making a big splash . |
| 8 | It has been suggesting to UNTAC , the UN authority in Cambodia , whose mandate requires it to stay until the elected assembly writes and enacts a constitution , that the election was rigged in the places ( like the capital , Phnom Penh ) where the CPP did worst . |
| 9 | Its own momentum keeps it going until one side gets completely flattened . |
| 10 | But a senior Kuwait delegate claimed his country had offered the other ministers a compromise on the tough quota demands it made when the meeting started but said the proposal were rejected . |
| 11 | It may seem a little naive but Ray and Jean believe it works and it really helps to preserve the ‘ home-from-home ’ atmosphere . |
| 12 | The defendant contended it accrued when the works were completed , in which event the action is statute-barred . |
| 13 | However , if you feel progress is too slow , you need to make slight adjustments to your food and exercise programme to get it going as you want it . |
| 14 | Judging from entries made in burial registers it appears that three days was the average length of delay . |
| 15 | Georgina had it done before she called them . |
| 16 | An early goal by the visitors made it look as though we were heading for our nineteenth League defeat of the season , but thanks to my inspirational coaching from the touchline , new boy Kev Knowles levelled the score on the stroke of half-time . |
| 17 | Often the tensions made it appear as though there was a ring of invisible men sitting outside the circle of women , a silent audience whose approval we often still needed . |
| 18 | From the CECOS Report it seems that church-related activities were often the main focus of outings for girls . |
| 19 | If the electric buses prove popular the county council says it hopes that all buses running in the city centre will be electric by the turn of the century . |
| 20 | Sun says it did and still is delivering the thing in volume — it 's just not enough to meet backorders . |
| 21 | AEA itself has appointed consultants and merchant bankers to help it develop and refine its work on strategic options as its contributions to the DTI review . |
| 22 | At the agreed rate of 10¢ per column inch it meant that if I could provide two 25-inch columns per day , which was relatively easy for me , I could earn about $30 per week which was $6 more than I was getting when I gave up the staff job . |
| 23 | His parents kept it spick and span , but when they died , he lived there alone until it went to rack and ruin . |
| 24 | The capacity of a body corporate with which the International Tin Council had been bestowed by the English Parliament allowed it to acquire and hold property , and to perform other actions in its own name . |
| 25 | Childline , Childline Den got us a Hovis loaf it looks than the other one . |
| 26 | Along zones of plate convergence , especially where these occur along the margins — of continents ( such as along the west coast of South America ) , buckling of the oceanic lithosphere causes it to founder and sink into the underlying asthenosphere , thereby forming a subduction zone . |
| 27 | A badger protection group says it fears that savage dogs are being set upon badgers in a remote area . |
| 28 | A badger protection group says it fears that savage dogs are being set upon the animals in a remote area . |
| 29 | we can do she put an ice cube on the splodge let it melt and when it drys out the carpet comes up again but I do n't know if it 'll work but it ca n't do any harm , can it ? |
| 30 | Trafford education authority has received about £13 million in the past two years to help it reorganise and improve its schools . |