Example sentences of "it [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If something is nothing , how can it affect anything ? |
| 2 | Let it affect someone else ’ . |
| 3 | The question is : what is it to see something as something ? |
| 4 | I told it to go something |
| 5 | In the event , it got nothing of the kind . |
| 6 | ‘ Did it say if it got everything sorted out ? |
| 7 | It got one . |
| 8 | It revealed something she would never have associated with the man whose ironic half-smile appeared in tabloid gossip columns almost as often as it did in yachting magazines . |
| 9 | I never use plonk — it contributes nothing to the recipe and can ruin a dish . |
| 10 | It records everything Ruthie . |
| 11 | It was half-blind and its fur was staring and it expected nothing and desired nothing save the crust by the table leg on which its half-gaze was fixed . |
| 12 | I go the first time , when that Scandinavian girl in the high-cut leotard ( wo n't it damage something vital , wearing those things ? ) shows me around , while gasping with incredulity at my age and wonderment at my physique . |
| 13 | Like an aphid , then , the caterpillar employs ants as bodyguards , but it goes one better . |
| 14 | And as as it goes one she gets more and more permanent . |
| 15 | before you have to count two there then another two there , it goes one , two , three , four |
| 16 | And it goes something like this . |
| 17 | It goes something like this : ‘ It is all very well to exhort people to behave properly in their personal relationships but law on such matters is unenforceable . |
| 18 | ‘ It goes something like this , ’ Rosalba replied , improvising , |
| 19 | If I just read out what I was going to suggest Simon described the new system for approvals it goes something like erm , sorry it 's 9.9 , all approvals are recorded on research approval forms full stop . |
| 20 | if it goes anything like that plan , I think that that carport looks hideous , actually . |
| 21 | The mist was the trouble — it shrouded everything half a dozen yards away . |
| 22 | Then Mary had seen the old woman for what she was — a pauper , trapped in her sadness , her madness , now frightened , now lost ; and her story — not only for the tale itself but because it concerned someone she knew , before her , now covering the pipe 's small bowl with protecting beech leaves — wrung her heart . |
| 23 | It spoils everything does n't it ? |
| 24 | If it receives one about a member who is a partner in a firm of registered auditors , a copy of the complainant 's letter is sent to the ARC , which will consider whether this should have any effect on the firm 's continued registration . |
| 25 | It conveyed nothing . |
| 26 | It conveyed nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 27 | It alerts one to the importance of contextual factors such as those relating to the institution 's regulations , resources and ethos . |
| 28 | ‘ Why do so many people use that word as if it represents something ugly ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It represents nothing more nor less than the imposition of the temple architecture of an extinct Mediterranean civilization upon the house design of a northern people ’ , remarks Olive Cook in her English House Through Seven Centuries . |
| 30 | As an organisation , it represents everything rotten about a Stalinist bureaucracy . |