Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his unkempt ginger hair running down into sideboards it made his hard face look even meaner . |
| 2 | ‘ It is — ah — splendid and — ah — heartwarming to see you all here enjoying yourselves , and I want to say — ah — how much pleasure it gives my good wife and — ah — myself ’ ( he could never work out whether it should be ‘ I ’ or ‘ me ’ ) ‘ to be able to entertain you in our modest home . |
| 3 | As a species of conspiracy it had its persistent weakness : fear of discovery led to revolt before the compromisos were firm enough . |
| 4 | In poetry it found its perfect fulfilment ; already , his vocation was being felt . |
| 5 | At the moment it seems our American friends had the right of it , but we are still working with the wild-caught fish and quite often these do not behave in the same way as tank-raised fish do . |
| 6 | But it was the idea of ‘ the garden in the wood ’ which really fired Lady Amory 's imagination ; to this day it remains her favourite part of the garden . |
| 7 | One theatre management which gave concessionary tickets , for instance , had never thought about the problems it caused its older customers by refusing advance booking and forcing them to queue for standby tickets . |
| 8 | Last week it launched its first multimedia X terminals — units able to produce sound as well as text and graphics . |
| 9 | Last week it admitted its 400th member , the Swedish-owned United Securities Fondkommission , the first time that level has been reached in its 300-year history . |
| 10 | The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ? |
| 11 | The felling , trimming , cutting , absorbed him completely and because of the ferocity of the running chain it demanded his undivided attention . |
| 12 | Here , I 'd like to say that I , I do very much welcome the abandonment of the two wayside routes it gives me particular satisfaction because you recall earlier in the year there was some irresponsible press comments on the subject which greatly upset a lot of people |
| 13 | Later in Michael Ramsey 's life it disturbed his conventional critics when they found a guardian of Catholic orthodoxy saying that he hoped and expected to meet atheists in heaven . |
| 14 | The Commission was supposed to be guided in its deliberations by the Nazimov Rescript , the programme adopted by the Main Committee in December 1858 , and the schemes devised by the provincial gentry committees , but the first and third of these were too conservative for its taste and in the first year of its life it gave them short shrift . |
| 15 | She would not have you informed , in case it placed your own freedom in jeopardy . |
| 16 | Gustavo Gutierrez has stressed the importance of this remark for Latin America , adding : ‘ The preference , the predilection ( not exclusive , let's be clear ) for the poor is not opposed in the mind of the Pope to his universal mission ; on the contrary it makes his universal mission quite concrete ’ ( Alberigo and Jossua , pp. 239 , 240 ) . |
| 17 | Why does it cost me ten pounds fifty return from Darlington but if I take a single to Darlin to Darlington from York it costs me ten quid . |
| 18 | what I 'm saying to you now is , I was saying to Arthur , the , the petrol money that we used to put in for petrol , it cost us five pound a week in the winter , but in the summer it cost us eight pound a week sometimes ten |
| 19 | To local residents of the outer city it remains their best form of protection against rapid change . |
| 20 | There could be unlawful discrimination in the admission of pupils ( as discussed in Chapter 4 ) , in a pupil 's access to benefits , facilities and services provided by the school , or by the LEA in the way it fulfils its broad duties under the Education Acts . |
| 21 | She was , he guessed , in her late thirties , and was uncompromisingly plain in a way it struck him few women nowadays were . |
| 22 | But , like , you know , he says the way it struck her one minute , you know , she just a mild cold and next minute , he said the next she 's so bad ! |
| 23 | IBM is using STM to study the surface of silicon , gold and thin layers of oxides in an attempt to learn more about the way it effects their electrical properties . |
| 24 | She 's engaging brain it takes her some time to come out to the phone instruct the whole thing . |
| 25 | In its imagery it recalls his own Deploratio virginitatis male amissae of long ago : |
| 26 | No doubt it gave him more time to enjoy his new pride and joy , a Harley Davidson , classic Hells Angels style motorcycle . |
| 27 | Thus Radio 4 's long-running soap opera The Archers was born and this year it celebrates its 40th birthday . |
| 28 | Last year it introduced its second-generation Legend saloon just four years after the first model was launched . |
| 29 | It would seem that this director was flying in the authority 's private , twice daily , shuttle to the site ( being a wartime airfield it has its own landing strip ) when one of the wheels fell off as the under carriage was being lowered . |
| 30 | As Willis went to the afterhatch it struck him that Dreadnought was rather low in the water , almost on a level with Grace . |