Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It suits me better than it suits him . ’ |
| 2 | But someone discovered in China that you could put them together and it went off with a bang . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Cat owners are sometimes distressed by the fact that their favourite and much-loved cat leaves them shortly before it dies . |
| 5 | I want to recount an experience that has stayed with me ever since it happened , something that transformed an uneventful journey home from work . |
| 6 | Too many coaches want to impose a technical straightjacket on their pupils , which can destroy them more than it improves and helps them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ This hurts me more than it does you . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ How can you say it suits me more than it does Dana ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And it , you do n't have to keep changing all the paper , you just and it does it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And were you there when it happened ? ’ |
| 17 | It 's absolutely horrible but Malcolm would insist on taking you there because it made him feel part of some secret society . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But they tell me now that it 's been increased immensely now what they get for being an oven man . |
| 21 | Punk did n't mean shit to a palm tree to them even if it meant so much to us . |
| 22 | I said the libraries are closed on Wednesdays and Fridays , why do n't you come to the library with me today because it 's closed on a Wednesday and Friday . |
| 23 | But the existence of these functions does not mean that the towns depended on them exclusively and it did not prevent them from acquiring others from the normal expected range . |
| 24 | He had taken the name of Varna from the name of the port from which he had sailed but he had lived his life in terror of deportation , a fear that had haunted him long after it had ceased to be a real threat , so that he had never been able to enjoy his son 's success , seeing it only as something which drew unwelcome attention to the Varna family . |
| 25 | He absently slid his programme nearer to her so that it touched him now , glancing at her out of the corner of his eye . |
| 26 | It coincided with his drawing back from her so that it appeared he was the one to call a halt first . |
| 27 | He loved her deeply and it hurt him badly when he learned the truth about her . |
| 28 | It pierced the wizard 's forehead and penetrated to his brain as he stood cursing ; death took him unawares as it did Goliath , and his lifeless body fell backwards on to the sand . |
| 29 | The only thing that was any dearer to him now than it had been when he started was his picture of the murdered woman . |
| 30 | He had blushed at the thought and turned quickly away , but as time passed he found that he desperately wanted to share his secret with her ; until then he 'd always confided in her unhesitatingly and it seemed strange that something should now make him hold back . |