Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dredge tried to hog the credit , but it 's clear to me where it really belongs . |
| 2 | ‘ Master Cook ! ’ he said , ‘ I do n't know what was in that flame pot of yours but it undoubtedly saved the day and many noble lives . |
| 3 | Keith realizes Goliath has padded his because it simply has not crossed his mind he might lose . |
| 4 | I am immensely kindly supported in my lonely periods here by a whole host of interesting and talented friends — nearly all of whom are John 's age or nearer yours as it so happens . |
| 5 | I had no experience of teaching art to anyone , but the headmaster assured me that it simply involved giving the boys some paints to play with and then telling them to get on with it . |
| 6 | It was because I was subconsciously sure of them that it never occurred to me that I could be rejected . |
| 7 | The black cloud fizzed its way towards them until it almost filled the screen . |
| 8 | having your normal period was n't ever mentioned , I was just sent along to the lav , my sister came with me , she said ‘ you wear this ’ , and that was that — My mother never even mentioned it … you got married and you had children , I did n't know there was such a thing that you could not have them and it just went on and on . |
| 9 | I told him that I did n't mix with them and it never came into my life or my conversation . ’ |
| 10 | There was the sound of a car behind them and it suddenly became very light . |
| 11 | The er his report has gone to the policy group it 's been talke discussed by them and it now goes to the policy advisory group . |
| 12 | Not only is this the explanation given to thousands of schoolchildren but I have to tell you that it also finds its way — in a more sophisticated form — into the curricula of some institutions of further and higher education . " |
| 13 | It is only relevant to you if it actually speeds up , improves , or reduces the cost of your computerized personnel information system . |
| 14 | If a partner never could see the point of going to all those meetings , it may not have stopped you but it certainly took the joy out of attending . |
| 15 | Here and there a regular path of some animal helped them but it rarely ran in one direction for long and they were unwilling to lose contact with the water which they would eventually have to cross . |
| 16 | Fearon looked temporarily nonplussed , then shrugged , tossed the towel back into the bathroom behind him where it presumably landed on the floor and growled , ‘ All right , I 'll show you around . |
| 17 | ‘ But you 're still not hitting him where it really hurts . ’ |
| 18 | Yet if we deny the creature this understanding , which even Clark himself seems to acknowledge , yet insist with him that it nonetheless fears death , then it is in the distinctly paradoxical position of fearing something of which it could not , in any sense , be aware . |
| 19 | Lecturing was now easier for him than it once had been — he had , after all , accumulated a great deal of experience — but the readings of his own poetry frequently left him exhausted . |
| 20 | It is no longer face to face with him but is integrated with him and it progressively absorbs him . |
| 21 | I wo n't tell him if it never happens again . |
| 22 | " His dad tried to knock it out of him but it never made no difference . " |
| 23 | THE Government 's Homeswap Scheme is designed to help council and Housing Association tenants exchange properties but so few people seem aware of it that it hardly works . |
| 24 | And I mean she 's , you 've got room out there to have it if it just stands . |
| 25 | triangular piece of metal , you dig it into like the crack and twist it and it just opens |
| 26 | I was sitting here yesterday mor day before , and that bloody picture snapped the catch , the catch on it , broken it and it just dropped straight down |
| 27 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 28 | ‘ Play Kylie or Jason at it and it soon dies of boredom . |
| 29 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 30 | Chemotherapy does not work with it and it rapidly spreads through the system . |