Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] it [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside the jacket there 's a mesh liner made from a dry mesh ripstop nylon which although it held a little perspiration , dried quickly . |
| 2 | The Blandford fly is the most famous British representative , which though it has a nasty bite , does n't harbour any nasty parasites . |
| 3 | It is not fair to expect your local delicatessen to do it for you as it takes a long time to slice the whole ham and Parma must be cut thinly . |
| 4 | Yeah but this this this dog will only drink it if it had a little bit of lemonade in . |
| 5 | And yet , on this fevered night … he stared at the heavy , handsome head , looked at it until it became a strange thing to him , a feeling of stone , a sight he saw from another part of the room , this unbodied head reflected more truly in the mirror than in the live skull itself … |
| 6 | Eliot observed how he would take a word ‘ and squeeze and squeeze it until it yielded a full juice of meaning which we would never suppose any word to possess ’ . |
| 7 | So you ca n't have a full mortgage but they could n't get a mortgage on it because it had a flat roof . |
| 8 | The trouble is , once one article said it , then other articles copied it because it made a good story . |
| 9 | Luckily we killed it before it became a full-blown institution and today no one seriously expects that food , or clothing , or even that overriding necessity , a television set , should be subsidised for all consumers , still less for a minority . |
| 10 | Speaking after BSAD 's national junior swimming championships , Mr O'Connor said : ‘ The Dolphin Centre is perfect for us because it has a top class pool and excellent facilities for disabled swimmers . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The Dolphin Centre is the perfect venue for us because it has a top class pool and excellent facilities for disabled swimmers . ’ |
| 12 | The Edinburgh Summit will tell us whether it has a real will to succeed . |