Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Academic English was a recent invention , largely of the inter-war years ; and even where it existed it had commonly stopped with the early nineteenth century . |
| 2 | Where it made itself felt yesterday was on the downswing . |
| 3 | She dived into her bag and held out the necessary money , and at least it stopped him in his tracks , although it left him looking down at her with less than pleasure . |
| 4 | She was as much a part of this murky landscape now as if she had been born here , every step of the way between Miss Gemma Dallam 's cloistered corner and her own — in spirit a universe apart — being so familiar to her that it seemed she had always known them , or had known them before , in another place , a dozen other places ; another life . |
| 5 | One advantage of the Chart is that it allows one to represent both complete analyses ( as inactive edges ) and partial analyses ( as active edges ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The most upsetting thing was that it made her realise just how much she had been allowing him to guide her in the decision , putting her desire to leave the nurses ' home and her pleasure at Dr Entwistle 's recommendation very much in second place . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At issue is whether a foreign country can identify and successfully demand the repatriation of antiquities that it admits it did not even know existed until they turned up in a museum 's collection . |
| 12 | My main complaint about this book , however , is that it encourages us to become not so much rock climbers as consumers . |
| 13 | Some people prefer to work their male ferret on a line , saying that it gives them control over its movements . |
| 14 | But if we had no independent reason for accepting this conclusion , such as the argument from error provides , we would take it as a point against his theory that it shows we do n't know the most central and obvious things such as that we are not brains in vats , that there is a material world or that the world began more than five minutes ago . |
| 15 | The derivation of the word ‘ fact ’ can indeed remind us that it means something constructed rather than just observed . |
| 16 | The sultan , however , refused to avail himself of this " Vienna Note " , on the grounds that it required him to make too many concessions . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ When we play like that it makes me wonder why we are in the wrong half of the table . |
| 18 | Its unique lightweight design is incredibly simple — so simple that it makes you wonder why nobody thought of it before ! |
| 19 | I just change the format a little bit here and there so it makes me write differently . |
| 20 | She thought of the red roses , and it made her feel quite empty inside . |
| 21 | She realized she had never seen the servants before except as part of the backdrop of Summer Lodge , now she saw that they were part of her life , real people with loves and loyalties especially to her and it made her feel suddenly humble . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But I called her my girlfriend , and it made me feel pretty good . |
| 24 | You needed me and it made me feel so good ! |
| 25 | So we had a video , and a special celebration dinner , and it made me feel really great . |
| 26 | There was a faint perfume , too , clinging to the photo , and it made me feel very homesick . |
| 27 | ‘ After we defeated defending champions Castlerock in the semi-finals , he thumped a table with his two All-Ireland Senior Cup medals before the final saying … ‘ this is what it is all about ’ … and it got us going again against Warrenpoint . ’ |
| 28 | And it bounces it comes in through the atmosphere , through all the gasses , they ca n't leave again , as it usually can . |
| 29 | But still her mind looked back , of its own accord , to Lajos , the harpies of the women 's magazine , Algox , and it seemed she had always been got at , and ‘ they ’ were still getting at her . |
| 30 | After a while Marcus came to his window and it seemed he stared straight into my eyes . |