Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [conj] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I looked at my list and it says February , and I 've got a list of my lectures for every week . |
| 2 | ‘ Both sides played their part and it shows football can be played with passion and pride without resorting to thumping the ball forward . ’ |
| 3 | An example of this sort of difficulty in English law is Launchbury v. Morgans in which the House of Lords declined to extend the vicarious liability of the owner of a car for negligence of its driver because it lacked information about the impact this would have on the insurance industry . |
| 4 | Sharon Griffiths was travelling in a car driven by her sister when it collided head on with the stolen vehicle . |
| 5 | The major problem is likely to be that enterprising ‘ try-outers ’ will hack the code they 've been given to play with and render the program fully usable if companies merely decrement a counter and destroy its function once it reaches zero as you suggest . |
| 6 | This is discussed with the data owner at the time they deposit their data and it forms part of the contract between them and the Archive . |
| 7 | Quite often all the things that parents want to say go out of their heads and it takes time and confidence in their listener to start to explore the greater areas of concern . |
| 8 | The BM can flog off the contents of its cellars if it needs money . |
| 9 | One way or another , we get to see most of their stuff before it gets Stateside . |
| 10 | There would be no food either , nor place to lay her head when it grew dark . |
| 11 | However , the CITUB announced that it would continue its strike until it saw guarantees of the character of the new government . |
| 12 | She rarely thought about Ireland now — she had deliberately suppressed it , and usually it was only in her dreams that it rose unbidden to haunt her . |
| 13 | That money is pure commission , Nick , a mere ten per cent of the value of the cocaine that was stored on their island while it awaited transportation to the good old US of A ; and neither you , nor I , nor even the dickheads in the Drug Enforcement Administration will ever know just how much money was not put in the bank , but stored in paper bags under the bed . ’ |
| 14 | Out of the two authors , I prefer Harper Lee 's style of writing because she is much more fluent in her writing and it contains energy , happiness , sadness , and really imaginative descriptions . |
| 15 | To her it was just a means of getting from A to B , but she welcomed its invention because it lessened cruelty to horses . |
| 16 | From some different world , she heard the bird 's song cease abruptly in mid-trill , and the startled flutter of its wings as it took flight , followed by the soft rustle of a breeze through the bushes . |
| 17 | Riven stabbed his knife in deep behind its ear and it went limp . |
| 18 | Companies do not pay tax on their FII since it represents dividends paid out of profits that have already been taxed in the corporate sector ( s 208 ) . |
| 19 | If ‘ knowledge is power ’ then there is a danger that the system will lose much of its power if it loses control of information about itself . |
| 20 | It is an ideology that calls itself pluralism when it imposes monoculture ; that speaks of choice as it snuffs out the biodiversity of the earth ; that cries democracy when it eclipses and denies all alternatives . |
| 21 | It will affect his livelihood if it turns sponsors away . |
| 22 | As Endill ate his breakfast he felt a thousand eyes watch him put his cold piece of toast into his mouth and it sent shivers down his spine . |
| 23 | After sex the man should withdraw his penis before it gets limp , as otherwise the rubber may come off . |
| 24 | The Captain picked up his telephone before it had time to ring . |
| 25 | Luke was ruthlessly dismissive , utterly without conscience , and she could welcome this further evidence of his hypocrisy because it reinforced resistance . |
| 26 | Zeuxis 's painted vine provoked the wonder and the applause of all his audience when it attracted birds to peck at the plump fruit . |
| 27 | So perfect was his information that it enabled President Kennedy to call Khrushchev 's bluff over the Cuban affair . |
| 28 | You know , the one where you sit there and lie through your teeth about spending every waking hour flossing and probing and massaging and never go out of an evening without your single-headed brush , and the Aussie hygienist who looks like Brooke Shields on a good day takes one prod at your gum and it spouts blood like Moby Dick on a bad day and the game 's up there and then . |
| 29 | He writes : ‘ It may be that when we ‘ invent ’ the past , especially the lived past , we serve our self esteem by creating an idealized image of our experience , holding it in our heads until it yields measures of virtue' . |
| 30 | Is it possible for the Church of England to proclaim this redemption with integrity and conviction in our day unless it ordains women as well as men as priests ? |