Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together they plot to undermine and ruin their errant spouses by hitting them where it hurts corporate types the hardest : their egos and bank balances . |
| 2 | So , I told them that it had new blades on but they wanted it really tight , and they wanted tightening up and that so yeah . |
| 3 | To build up a shop 's reputation in the public eye ( ie to make customers more aware of the shop and the goods it offers , and to convince them that it provides good value and good service ) |
| 4 | Over the next 12 months , it will buy another 1.89% in the open market , and gets an option on a further 4% for another $150m from Olivetti 's shareholders ' syndicate by June 1994 ; that adds up to 9.92% , which if it paid current prices for the shares it buys in the market would represent a total investment of about $330m . |
| 5 | ‘ It teaches you to be patient and determined , and reminds you that it takes hard work and practice when things are n't going right . ’ |
| 6 | Such a gene could pay for itself if it motivated little girls to in fact compete with their brothers for what their brothers might otherwise er get uncontested . |
| 7 | Under the auspices of Scottish/Canadian editor Andy Gray , the paper was faced with a dilemma and one that it had great difficulty resolving , namely how a paper still steeped in show business traditions could come to terms with a new music that was deliberately and defiantly anti-commerciality and the supposed ‘ circus ’ of the pop world . |
| 8 | Usually , these are ordinary ‘ cold ’ avalanches such as one finds on any mountain , but if the collapse is a big one and it exposes hot rock deep within the dome , a nuee ardente may be produced . |
| 9 | He learned to use his charm , and ‘ it became ’ , his biographer says , ‘ so strong a factor in him that it resembled great beauty in a woman ’ . |
| 10 | Thus where the discretionary fund management arm of a conglomerate receives confidential information from the corporate finance arm about Company X , the fund management arm may be prevented from using the information of disclosing it if it has actual knowledge of the breach of confidence or possibly where it ought to have known of the breach . |
| 11 | Discard it if it has awkward wires or some other hazard on the approach , and choose another field . |
| 12 | A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away . |
| 13 | Yeah I just write where you were born , where your cos it says regional accent , I 'm assuming that means |
| 14 | Ever a man for taking the particular to exhibit the general , this allowed him a global crack at the Scots : he claimed that they were not interested in doing anything unless it had natural awkwardness in it : ‘ What can not be done without some uncommon trouble or particular expedient , will not often be done at all . |