Example sentences of "it [noun sg] [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 | By the time we were drinking it Mum had calmed down considerably . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The cultivation of the mind entails giving it freedom to soar like a bird into the mind 's sky . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The ideal of the time was to arrange nature in such a way as not to make it look rearranged . |
| 7 | Most of our customers really prefer a system based on property type , be it semi detaches , terrace , detached , mansion , castle or whatever . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | calling it wool makes it no more palatable . |
| 12 | and I 'd call it hooey to say Cimabue |
| 13 | Just have it ready- made , say you want it for |
| 14 | ‘ Why is it snooker has never taken off in America ? ’ |
| 15 | And when it daylight came the next day next morning you could hardly believe it you could hardly see Rousay for the foam that the gale kick up like a thick fog . |
| 16 | Arctic weather blasted through the region , leaving behind it snow drifts several feet deep and severe flooding — the worst for 20 years . |
| 17 | It test drives you . |
| 18 | Oh is it home made ? |
| 19 | ‘ Was it council houses you had in mind ? ’ asked Helen . |
| 20 | I managed to fit it to my machine but how to make it work defeats me . |
| 21 | ‘ She looked at her step-mother but uttered not a single word ; she simply picked up our big drap-de-dames green shawl ( it 's a shawl we all use , a drap-de-dames one ) , and covered her head and face entirely with it ad lay down on the bed with her face to the wall , ad her little shoulders and her whole body were trembling . ' |
| 22 | There is a lot of it hype , there is a lot of it window dressing , but by and large it has helped to provide a railway line , if you like , for them to work on and give special help and special aid to various industries that are relocating there . |
| 23 | In this country we call it Medau Breathing Movement , and by ‘ breathing movement ’ we mean internal movement of the trunk , which starts with the rising and falling of the diaphragm and then communicates itself to the abdominal walls , pelvic floor , the whole back and as far as the collar bone . |
| 24 | Right it 's a green gas and it 's also what it does it to this paper turns it acid to start with and then takes the colour away it is a bleach . |
| 25 | ‘ If I 'd known this a few days ago , it woulda saved a lotta trouble . |
| 26 | Does n't come off so easily and it sort goes into it a bit , |
| 27 | Is it revisionism to see some improvement in the human consciousness since then ? ’ |
| 28 | Nor is it accident completes |
| 29 | As I remember it conference tends to run through until new clients so . |
| 30 | And er what 's er what 's wrong with her leg at all , is it inflammation did she say ? |