Example sentences of "it [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes they made it Miss has just died erm then coming down there was the Post Office with old Pa and the , then the Miss , they used to keep the Post Office , then there was er well there was a gents outfitters and then there was a beautiful shop I always used to think , it was called , another , but it was confectioners , but it was all most delightful old oldy-worldy sort of shop and my mother often used to go in there then you 'd |
| 2 | What was it Maria had called me ? |
| 3 | ‘ I take it Maria 's been the housekeeper here for years … |
| 4 | By the time we were drinking it Mum had calmed down considerably . |
| 5 | Atomizing language by approaching it bottom-up has yielded results for linguistics , but it does not necessarily follow that the same is true for all language students . |
| 6 | In it Taylor defends ideas that Mill himself found too radical ; primarily , that women should have access to the same professions as men , and that they should not be forced to inhabit ‘ separate spheres ’ . |
| 7 | So we went in the door , and just sort of said , yeah we had , we 'd kept it ages had n't we ? |
| 8 | Or was it Kenneth saying ? |
| 9 | When they reached it Sarah counted four children playing near the turf-sided lock , and fears for Angel 's safety immediately sprang to mind . |
| 10 | The cultivation of the mind entails giving it freedom to soar like a bird into the mind 's sky . |
| 11 | It can create the opportunity for local management to bring the delivery of health care closer to the people whom it serves , and give it freedom to run its own affairs . |
| 12 | It holds a pool of the securities of each listed company and on dealings on The Exchange each seller transfers to SEPON , thus momentarily augmenting its pool and out of it SEPON transfers the appropriate amount of shares to each purchaser . |
| 13 | She called it Charley going incognito . |
| 14 | It was a short stay , but the year was to be an important one , for during it Louis-Napoleon began to see new ways in which his devotion to the Bonapartist cause might be developed . |
| 15 | to one sort , and they 'll never cure it Jan does n't think . |
| 16 | The instant she touched it Luce felt the second star dip beneath the pressure of her finger . |
| 17 | The ideal of the time was to arrange nature in such a way as not to make it look rearranged . |
| 18 | Most of our customers really prefer a system based on property type , be it semi detaches , terrace , detached , mansion , castle or whatever . |
| 19 | In it Richard appealed for help : |
| 20 | In it Richard appealed for help : |
| 21 | Is it Richard coming ? |
| 22 | I 'm blatant and I 'm damn proud of it matey. makes a lot of bloody sense . |
| 23 | Well that 's what Lucy said , that it wouldnae lasted too long , I mean , it was over a year . |
| 24 | He managed lan Dury before Dury was famous , and City Lights provided the suit that David Bowie wore on the cover of ‘ Pin Ups ’ and which people were forever coming into Let It Rock trying to get copied , much to Malcolm 's chagrin . |
| 25 | The particular premises that Let It Rock occupied had always been in the very vanguard of London fashion trends but working there was n't as much of a shock as I thought it was going to be at first . |
| 26 | Let It Rock did unbelievably good business Friday night or Saturday morning a lorry would turn up with a delivery of creepers — the very things that enticed me into the shop in the first place . |
| 27 | Soon after signing it Barzani said , ‘ It is all a ruse . |
| 28 | What was it Adams had once said to him apropos talking to Edna : it 's a gamble . |
| 29 | Yeah but Sue got it Sue got all the tried er everything I could to , to get it to tally . |
| 30 | I saw that next to it Dana wrote ‘ Sixtynine ’ ( the amatory position the French call soixante-neuf ) and changed the ‘ comma ’ shapes into ‘ 69 ’ . |