Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It shows that about three-quarters of the male respondents replied that the tax system had no influence on their work effort , 15 per cent replied that it made them work more and 11 per cent that it made them work less . |
| 2 | I waited to see her face tense as if it was an airtight balloon on a stick ; never mind that it made me choke somewhere in my chest . |
| 3 | It is as if the USA and the USSR were caught in the logic of the Prisoner 's Dilemma or the Chicken Game and the only sense in which this is not mere fiction is that it lets us predict successfully what will happen next . |
| 4 | Simply formulating a title of some sort can be a useful achievement , in that it helps you decide how you want to focus your writing . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ When we play like that it makes me wonder why we are in the wrong half of the table . |
| 6 | Its unique lightweight design is incredibly simple — so simple that it makes you wonder why nobody thought of it before ! |
| 7 | I just change the format a little bit here and there so it makes me write differently . |
| 8 | When we returned together to Ninfania , you and I , in the late Fifties , there was litter in the streets of southern Italy , and it made them look more unfamiliar to you than the new buildings put up after the war and the bombing . |
| 9 | But I called her my girlfriend , and it made me feel pretty good . |
| 10 | You needed me and it made me feel so good ! |
| 11 | So we had a video , and a special celebration dinner , and it made me feel really great . |
| 12 | There was a faint perfume , too , clinging to the photo , and it made me feel very homesick . |
| 13 | I can do all those nice things in Jan , Feb and March , and not to mention when I get home tearing my garden to pieces , that 's gone to pot , which is as well , because it does n't make it , see , see one thing I find about coming down here , I see the really smarter shops than I would unless I were in Norwich and it makes me realise still after this , I do n't crave for the things in shops . |
| 14 | I should n't have asked that , Florence Ames thought , he does n't care to be questioned about his mother and it makes me seem too familiar , too prying . |
| 15 | But now that items are no longer individually labelled we , the public , have to go by the shelf price , and it makes me wonder how many other prices are incorrectly displayed . |
| 16 | De Levantiére has had her hair cut and it makes her look very sophisticated . |
| 17 | In such a situation the male can take his frustrations out on his mate , as digging is part of the natural behaviour of the fish , and it makes them feel more secure . |
| 18 | You ca n't swing on the buggy handle it makes it too heavy and it makes it tip up . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's called feminism , ’ said Henry , ‘ and I hope you never get it , because it is absolutely awful and it makes you swell up to an enormous size and when you have it really badly you go round bonking men on the head and blaming them for everything . |
| 20 | Linking cells in one worksheet to calculations in another is also on offer , of course , and it makes you wonder how we used to manage those multi-company consolidations without dynamic linking . |
| 21 | and it makes you look completely different . |
| 22 | As with most things in drama , there are many questions which slip between categories , but the attempt to define types of questions is useful if it helps us see more clearly what we are doing and what we could be doing . |
| 23 | ‘ If it helps you make up your mind , Mrs Diamond , I should tell you that I 'm a friend of Heather 's rather than a friend of her family … if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 24 | If anything if if it does You see again and then you see if you 're out of a job you see you if you happen to be out of a job then you 're not eligible for a pension policy . |
| 25 | I thought if it makes it growl only . |
| 26 | If it makes you feel any happier , I will tell you that it did not cost me as much as a bouquet of flowers would have done . |
| 27 | Why then , you might ask , do you not simply train a lot less all year round if it makes you feel that much better when you cut back ? |
| 28 | If it did I do n't remember it . |
| 29 | ‘ Trying on all those clothes was fun but it made me realise how tiring shopping for clothes really is . |
| 30 | Barbara says although she had a fantastic day , she will probably stick to making her own clothes in future : ‘ Trying on all those clothes was fun but it made me realise how tiring modelling — and shopping — really are . |