Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Cat owners are sometimes distressed by the fact that their favourite and much-loved cat leaves them shortly before it dies . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He 'll have to show people round at low tide , and get them off before it turns . |
| 9 | I want to recount an experience that has stayed with me ever since it happened , something that transformed an uneventful journey home from work . |
| 10 | Too many coaches want to impose a technical straightjacket on their pupils , which can destroy them more than it improves and helps them . |
| 11 | Oh well tick me off if it does |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ This hurts me more than it does you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ How can you say it suits me more than it does Dana ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Well I 'd never seen them , I do n't say it turned you on but it made you |
| 19 | 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 ? ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And it , you do n't have to keep changing all the paper , you just and it does it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Yet another , fortunately quite rare , follows you around when it sees secateurs in your hands and drops a few eggs into the soft pith of the stem when you make a cut , before the cut wound has had time to callus and heal itself — another reason why you should always try to confine cutting to a fine dry day . |
| 24 | And were you there when it happened ? ’ |
| 25 | It 's absolutely horrible but Malcolm would insist on taking you there because it made him feel part of some secret society . |
| 26 | And you know that at the same time as you could clout them you 'd actually die for them also if it came to the point . |
| 27 | ‘ They appreciated the peace it gave them from the ones who wound them up and it gave us peace . |
| 28 | The Prison Governors Association has told me clearly that it opposes the Bill on the grounds that the measures that it contains are ’ too draconian ’ — I use its exact words . |
| 29 | This is a highly competitive field and I did n't want them to rule me out when it comes to promotion because they think I lack commitment . |
| 30 | But they tell me now that it 's been increased immensely now what they get for being an oven man . |