Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Young skin is less able naturally to protect itself as it contains less melanin and therefore has less tanning ability . |
| 5 | I said , ‘ Cynthia would n't let him ’ , which was silly of me because it aroused several emotions in my mother . |
| 6 | Well I would expect that the Prime Minister would , I think this nonsense that is behind all this is that because I am talking to Gerry Adams , they do n't want to be seen to be talking to me because it looks this fingerprint argument |
| 7 | It still thinks that by interfering and pouring on more layers of bureaucracy and government it will achieve something that has eluded it for so long and will continue to elude it if it takes that path . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Discard it if it has awkward wires or some other hazard on the approach , and choose another field . |
| 10 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 11 | We have adopted it because it gives greater strength and dignity and fullness to the design . |
| 12 | A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away . |
| 13 | She heard a car go up the road and then still heard it as it travelled some way along the road at the top , and realised the wind must be coming from the south for the sound to come to her so distinctly . |
| 14 | However , if you have noticed that your spots seem more extravagant following a choc-binge , then perhaps you will have to test and see for yourself whether it makes any difference . |
| 15 | Yeah I just write where you were born , where your cos it says regional accent , I 'm assuming that means |
| 16 | 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 . |