Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] it [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I made a tiny human skeleton with the bones of the dead fish and distributed a little ketchup about it to make it more realistic . |
2 | Some essential honesty about it brings it back from the brink . |
3 | The irony of it struck her forcibly and her gurgling laughter broke out . |
4 | The sheer pleasure of it swept him up and it was a full minute before he pulled back and looked at her , amazed at how happy he felt . |
5 | Mm because his account was frozen as soon as he put his card in it took it in ! |
6 | The primitive sound of it stirred something deep inside me as though it were Pan himself , not some Indian labourer , playing those haunting notes on that rude instrument . |
7 | and I , and tied a lump of string round it to keep it on . |
8 | That I could put no name to it made it all the more tantalizing , like a song when only the tune remains and the words are lost by time . |
9 | I ca n't remember now , but I still love it and continue to be amazed every time I see it in a catalogue for it seeds itself as freely as any common plantain . |
10 | I took it into to make it bigger , right , it was mum 's , so they said well we 've got to put valuation on it to send it away , so I said well I have n't got a clue , so they wrote down a thousand pound and I thought never in all this world . |
11 | The thought of it brought him out in a cold sweat as he ran desperately on . |
12 | The thought of it scared them so much they turned all the lights out and went straight upstairs without even taking a candle in case he came up and saw the light under their door . |
13 | I 'm not sure it has enough erm logic behind it to lead him inevitably onward . |
14 | She stood in there with her back-part against the tumbril ; and it had n't got a prop on it to keep it up , you see ; of course she kept rubbing about , and ‘ course , down that come ! |
15 | I like , I like that , I like the idea of it telling you how far it is |
16 | ‘ We have to be some way above it to see it clearly . |
17 | The pain of it took me back to that earlier pain as a six-year-old , and all the anguish of inappropriate separation . |
18 | The explosive pain of it brought me hellishly back to full savage consciousness and to a revived desire not to become part of the eternal mystery just yet . |