Example sentences of "it [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't let it affect him for too long , although he put his second into the bunker at the 10th . |
| 2 | Neuron Data , better known for its Nexpert expert system until it re-invented itself as a GUI development outfit , plans to push on into what it sees as a burgeoning market for software which can make an ISV 's job designing solutions which work across heterogeneous environments much easier . |
| 3 | The ozone layer is located at an average height of 12 kilometres above the earth 's surface an it screens us from 99% of the harmful ultra-violet radiation coming from the sun . |
| 4 | It allies itself with no political party , no outside cause . |
| 5 | In fact it doubled itself in size every day . |
| 6 | The question is : what is it to see something as something ? |
| 7 | It irritates him beyond measure that she is nearly always right about everything . ’ |
| 8 | " The very thought of it chills me to the bone . " |
| 9 | But when I think about how I feel for you , it turns me into a Hercules and I feel I can conquer the world . ’ |
| 10 | Total marketing and sales expenses increased as it turns itself into a market-driven company to $24.3m , up 45% . |
| 11 | It turns you to jelly . |
| 12 | For the first year or so it turns you into a kind of psychopathic animal and then suddenly , like a butterfly emerging from the pupa , you sprout wings , your heart opens , you become … charming . |
| 13 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |
| 14 | In the event , it got nothing of the kind . |
| 15 | But perhaps you do n't remember how he hated that life , and what a state it got him into . |
| 16 | But it got him in the end . |
| 17 | I imitated his style and it got me into trouble . ’ |
| 18 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 19 | And last night it got me into hot water . |
| 20 | She could put up with that if it got her to a city , or within reach of a ve-hickle she could scav . |
| 21 | The former '80s high flier is already well on the way to digging itself out of the mess it got itself into a few years back . |
| 22 | It got you from A to B in one piece , as Adam 's father remarked sneeringly of it . |
| 23 | WordPerfect on it to compare it with the other one and it was I er said |
| 24 | When he sat , it revealed itself as a sticking-plaster , like a small moustache . |
| 25 | Thus , these subcultures respectively enable corporate officials and lower-class adolescent males to commit crimes without too many pangs of conscience ; through their sanitizing prism , each sub-culture softens criminal acts so that they assume the appearance of ‘ not really ’ being against the law , or it transforms them into acts required by a morality higher than that enshrined in a parochial criminal law . |
| 26 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
| 27 | Every time you think you 've sussed this game it kicks you in the arse . ’ |
| 28 | It amused him for a moment to speculate about the others , if they too had seen the paragraph and whether they had been astonished and afraid . |
| 29 | It passed us at Gibraltar . |
| 30 | Moreover it is less than clear from the Bill what advantages are supposed to accrue to a school if it separates itself from a Local Authority , unless doing so is thought in general to be advantageous ( where , for instance , a Local Authority is unduly ‘ political ’ ) . |