Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a Time Out interview with Simon Garfield , Morrissey spoke of this : ‘ They ( the tabloids ) hound me and it gets very sticky . |
| 2 | Forgive me but it seems to me strange that a lady such as you … how shall I say … should stay in a pensione . |
| 3 | If you expect something and it surpasses your expectation , then you are thrilled . |
| 4 | " Lick it until it feels better and then go to sleep . " |
| 5 | you forget it and it stays on four bloody days . |
| 6 | press it and it starts the tape , it stops the tape |
| 7 | Like the death penalty , you want it because it makes you feel better , not because it 's a deterrent or any nonsense like that . |
| 8 | That 's why we never celebrate anything until it 's happened . |
| 9 | You show them that it does n't work . |
| 10 | Catch them before it happens . |
| 11 | You get a lot of people who 'll tell you how to sing and play , and stop you because it sounds a bit out of tune , but he 'll say , ‘ No , there 's soul in there , even if it is slightly out of tune . |
| 12 | Well the government subsidizes them a lot for , for a start and it 's , again it 's the government , the philosophy of the gover of a government either subsidize something or it does n't , does n't it , and it subsidizes what it |
| 13 | Remove it before it starts to break up , though . |
| 14 | Put it where it gets as much sun as possible . |
| 15 | Because it so rarely happens that we all treasure it when it does . |
| 16 | Education , for example , benefits those who receive it because it enhances their employment prospects or because they enjoy studying , but it is also held to yield external benefits in producing a socialized , literate and informed citizenry . |
| 17 | Catch it before it falls in the water |
| 18 | Demagnetise it and it sucks the heat back again . |
| 19 | Now admittedly , the T four bacterial is a very simple organism , it ca n't leap about so it does n't need senses or a brain to direct it , or muscles or anything like that , it ca n't repair itself or change itself once it 's been made , therefore it does n't need to digest food , er to , to have an immune system or anything like that to repair itself or put itself to rights , it does n't need anything like that . |
| 20 | Indeed , we could not be there , since we have neither access to the classrooms where ‘ disorder ’ rules , nor if we had would social life reconstitute itself as it existed before the camera , tape recorders and people accountable as social scientists were upon the scene . |
| 21 | She thinks you suspect her and it seems to me that everything adds up to a good cause for her condition . ’ |
| 22 | you run it and it crashes and |
| 23 | They seemed to smell the air and if a lone bird hove in sight , they 'd pick it up when it was no more than a speck and watch it till it disappeared , and everything about it would be important to them — the direction of its flight , the way it flew , its height above the water , and so on . |
| 24 | It publicized itself with a series of military-style ‘ communiqués ’ to the papers , with dire threats against the ‘ pigs ’ and slogans such as : ‘ Blow it up , burn it down , kick it till it breaks . ’ |
| 25 | Enjoy it while it lasts . |
| 26 | The management of information becomes an art , master it and it becomes your unequal advantage . |
| 27 | They enjoy themselves and it makes you realise that while we 're in prison so are they , in their own bodies |
| 28 | Why did passport mean something when it had n't been stolen ? |
| 29 | Zephandra Butolphi has this idea that you have repeat everything until it becomes one with the cosmic miasmal consciousness , so pages one , two and three read : |
| 30 | Maybe the day will come when Mark will ring me from the museum and tell me that it 's been decided that I must add to the catalogue the pedigree of the wrapping or package in question : Ice lolly wrapper ‘ Captain Marvel ’ , Walls , 1985 , found , Whitechapel Road , EC , condition : poor . |