Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weakness can be a bonus provided it leads us to depend on God himself . |
| 2 | She had a neat , methodical mind and it pleased her to hunt around for an odd half-hour or so to fill with planting lettuces or doing the mending . |
| 3 | She looked different with her hair cut and it made them feel shy . |
| 4 | If i get a good script and it calls me to do a hefty love scene why not ? ’ she added , lips that were once sugary and innocent now curled coquettishly . |
| 5 | So body language if you read a lot of the books on body language it takes one single action and it interprets it based on that . |
| 6 | A fourth idea implicit in the concept of non-justiciability is that of expertise : a court might decline to review a decision or action if it felt it lacked the skill , expertise or experience to judge the issues raised by the dispute . |
| 7 | I keep getting awful pains in my side and it makes me go all hot . |
| 8 | It sometimes happens that a business is well disposed to the idea of partnership but it feels it has little to offer ; just to offer time may be very helpful and can bring dividends for both the partners . |
| 9 | She meant it as a compliment but it made me sound like her GP . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , while the Report may have rejected the reactionary normativist ideology it is also the case that it did nothing to challenge the dominant legal culture . |
| 11 | Emphasis on the importance of understanding the factors affecting breeding success in males and females has the advantage that it forces us to ask specific comparative questions concerning the functional significance of particular sex differences . |
| 12 | Sometimes you meet a guy with just so much plain humanity that it makes you feel humble . |
| 13 | From such a quarter this is significant testimony ( though it prompts in me the reflection that it takes one to know one ) . |
| 14 | After a while Marcus came to his window and it seemed he stared straight into my eyes . |
| 15 | ‘ There is less wear and tear on top management and it allows us to arrange meetings more quickly which might not take place otherwise , ’ says Royal Bank spokesman Alwyn James , speaking in Technicolor from his studio in Edinburgh . ’ |
| 16 | I had understood he knew the man who is to chair the said development committee and it transpires he does not . |
| 17 | We may succumb to flattery because it makes us feel good . |
| 18 | Rewording is a worthwhile exercise because it forces you to come to terms with language . |
| 19 | It 's touching at their core because it helps them to recognize and understand their own experience of oppression , or what life must be like for their own sister , brother , mother or a member of the youth club . |
| 20 | So democracy is a dangerous exercise when it means we empower the majority against minority groups that have rested on the support of the regime . |
| 21 | And erm for summer then we put some here and some seaweed and it made it look kind of queer like but Mr Davis our art teacher just thought it would make it look more interesting . |
| 22 | Geoff Tulloch once advanced the opinion that it made her look like an air hostess . |
| 23 | ‘ God forbid ! ’ said Dionne , ‘ just that I 'm living with a delinquent at the moment and it makes me feel mature . |
| 24 | Erm , I wear make up as a mask basically gives me confidence and it stops me having to be myself which I feel is n't good enough for the public |
| 25 | That does not affect our commitment to safety and it has nothing to do with privatisation . |
| 26 | But this was just a dentist 's waiting room and it made him wonder what the rest of the house would be like . |
| 27 | Integrity expands and deepens the role individual citizens can play in developing the public standards of their community because it requires them to treat relations among themselves as characteristically , not just spasmodically , governed by these standards . |
| 28 | In a work of art this is a powerful coup because it compels us to think about why we know this woman must be black , and as an act of protest it is far richer and more powerful than an instruction in how to feel . |
| 29 | I suppose I should call it Xmas muzak since it has nothing to do with Christ nor with music . |
| 30 | Day two , and the pupils learn how to shape their creations into a clay model clock — quite a demanding process since it requires them to build in mirror-image — and cast it in plaster , ready for display in the school foyer or playground . |