Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should develop it ourselves quite energetically before it gets monopolised from other quarters . |
| 2 | She was not content to be insulted in cafés by waiters more rude than any to be found in Northam ; she could not accept the lowliness of her status , for it seemed to pain her more abroad than it had done at home , and she felt that she should somehow have escaped it , that she should have been changed , somehow , into something new . |
| 3 | ‘ God , ’ he muttered against her neck , ‘ you can be the most impossible woman I 've ever met , but I want you so badly that it hurts . ’ |
| 4 | In addition , the new knowledge about economic and demographic change in the past has suggested that it is urgent to reconsider several aspects of the received wisdom about the industrial revolution , notably the assumptions made by contemporaries about declining marginal returns in agriculture ; changes in the occupational structure of the English labour force before and during the industrial revolution ; and , more generally , the viability of the concept itself so far as it connotes a unitary and progressive phenomenon . |
| 5 | Correctly named Limnanthes douglasii , the seed is readily available and , when conditions suit , it seeds itself so readily that it becomes self-perpetuating and can even become invasive . |
| 6 | Nigel and Rosamund Starmer-Smith 's tragic loss of their daughter , Charlotte , has clearly affected many of you as deeply as it has us . |
| 7 | They say that nobody remembers who came second but when that has happened to you as often as it has to Montgomerie , it is difficult to forget . |
| 8 | ‘ And perhaps I should remind you that the contract you 've just cited binds you as securely as it does us , unless you 're willing to face interminable legal hassles in an effort to extricate yourself . ’ |
| 9 | He sends you out here because it looks impressive . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ That kind of thing either brings you closer together or it separates you . |
| 11 | JustText can read text files from any word processor , it even tidies them up slightly as it does it , and there is a utility to read MacWrite files but within limits . |
| 12 | The design point is a good one so far as it goes … |
| 13 | It does n't come to me as easily as it does to you . " |
| 14 | I could sense Lili turning her head to look at me , but the urge to talk , to confess , had left me as suddenly as it had come . |
| 15 | The gun roared deafeningly in the small room , its lethal discharge taking Angel Two in the ribcage , almost tearing him in half as it punched him back across the room . |
| 16 | Eventually , we realized that our school work was suffering and a few of us turned him down flat when it came to the sports and he did n't like it . |
| 17 | It suited him less well than it had Zacharias . |
| 18 | By this finding himself relieved , he again resumed his studies until the hour of dinner , when the disorder again attacked him so violently that it produced a fainting fit , which held him till the evening ; he went soon after to bed , and passed a very uneasy , restless night . |
| 19 | New life , green as the holly leaf , was at work inside him as surely as it stirred inside his wife . |
| 20 | Moran hardly heard ; all resentment left him as quickly as it had come : McQuaid was here and it was Monaghan Day . |
| 21 | The smell of oil clung to her as strongly as it did to the rags in the van . |
| 22 | He had schooled it so well that it received the implications of that entire passage of information with no expression at all . |
| 23 | As she returned to her nest , looking around her , she could see it so clearly that it made her laugh . |
| 24 | They 'd get so much grain and they 'd eat it so quickly that it swelled out before they had time to digest it . |
| 25 | and so you could pull it in just until it stops flapping and then you 'd be able to sail away and we 'd never see you again . |
| 26 | I have followed it through closely because it shows the kind of diplomacy which , though no comparable evidence survives , has to be assumed for subsequent relations between Charles and his brothers ( and later his nephews ) throughout his reign . |
| 27 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 28 | Do n't leave it any longer or it becomes hard to control . |
| 29 | The problem in part is ( or ought to be ) one of generalising successful practice , shaping it up so that it encompasses the whole school and motivates all the teachers , not just those who are keen , or authoritatively skilled , in transacting bits and pieces . |
| 30 | Do n't use the other person 's name or use it artificially so that it jars . |