Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was strapped so tightly around my ankles I think it stopped the circulation in my feet . |
| 2 | ‘ Once I heard her start singing the songs I knew it had to be her , ’ he says . |
| 3 | property thus recoverable developed a set of legal characteristics which caused it to differ considerably from property which was recoverable only by a personal action ; and so , though the real actions have long been abolished , and for a still longer time disused , the differences between real and personal property survived . |
| 4 | The expectation of falling interest rates and bond yields which underpinned it has been rudely removed . |
| 5 | We have seen a shift from the utopianism of the 1960s to a culture of nostalgia and , as with the more dystopian elements in postmodernism , the exhibition and the books which accompany it look backward in a search for appearances as if they were compensatory fantasies substituting for a forgotten dream . |
| 6 | Last year , Trade Indemnity announced substantial losses which required it to have a rights issue which all bar the Prudential took up . |
| 7 | But it ran into early criticism from disabled shoppers who claim it discriminates against them , and from traders who fear it will hit business . |
| 8 | The police inspector who investigates the terrorist attack turns out to be none other than Columbo , the clerks at the hotel are discovered to be Akaky Akakievich , Badin , Devushkin , Mr Guppy , Goliadkin , Sainthomme , and Uriah Heep , and the journalists who report it include Jake Barnes , Ian Scuffling , Joe McCarthy Hynes , and Rouletabille . |
| 9 | Through all the beliefs and countries which used it runs the thread of its curative effect on the eyes , and ability to strengthen the sight . |
| 10 | Bubonic plague is not directly associated with water , but the rats which carried it arrived by boat at riverside wharves . |
| 11 | What most visitors who admire it do n't know is that its original home was the middle of Oxford town centre — just below Carfax tower — with traffic flowing around it from all directions . |
| 12 | From a distance of thirty feet she heard it clawing the earth . |
| 13 | what about what about the parents who let it go on ? |
| 14 | The mercury is dumped into the rivers of the region by miners who use it to extract gold from silt . |
| 15 | Gamblers who find it infra-dig to do the pools , and now have a national lottery to look forward to . |
| 16 | So in order to be true , Rabbit 's statement must be correlated with what in the circumstances it says it signifies ( namely honey ) . |
| 17 | The prisoners who built it left their own rather macabre memento by incorporating a hangman 's noose into one of the rafters , with a nearby door leading into empty space and a four metre drop . |
| 18 | Former Top 40 presenter Tony Blackburn said : ‘ In the old days I think it meant something to be the Christmas No. 1 and there would be great excitement in the run-up to the last chart . |
| 19 | For four weeks I let it lie on my desk , unwilling to take the final step . |
| 20 | Putrefaction had set in around the nose and mouth , the skin felt cold and soggy as Corbett gently turned the head to look at the fatal weal round the neck , a broad , purple black gash with little round indentations which made it look like some ghostly parody of a necklace . |
| 21 | Let us now suppose that our government falls under the influence of economists who advise it to treat as a trade off relation in the manner outlined above . |
| 22 | Huddersfield police have painted one of their cells pink on the advice of colour therapists who claim it gives off anti-violence wavelengths The Amarant Trust has a cassette about Hormone Replacement Therapy . |
| 23 | Governments who initialled it get it ratified by their Parliaments . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not I , but all the lenders who made it work . ’ |
| 25 | The leaflet angered parents , staff and governors because they said it was full of misleading statements and the individuals who produced it had not identified themselves . |
| 26 | And in its attempts to obey , the Anglican branch had evolved ad hoc , adding to itself bits and pieces to meet needs it thought it perceived . |
| 27 | For several years it appears it remained empty , but by 1845 was back in business , with tenants John and Edward Wise producing cloth . |
| 28 | HE WO N'T cut the exchange rate of the over-valued pound because in his daydreams he sees it replacing the German mark as the strongest currency . |
| 29 | If conventionalism is to provide a distinct and muscular conception of law , therefore , with even remote connections to the family of popular attitudes we took it to express , then it must be strict , not soft , conventionalism . |
| 30 | By " doing " things I mean it alters the state of the world ; this is more or less what Engels had in mind with his references to production and reproduction . |