Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is — ah — splendid and — ah — heartwarming to see you all here enjoying yourselves , and I want to say — ah — how much pleasure it gives my good wife and — ah — myself ’ ( he could never work out whether it should be ‘ I ’ or ‘ me ’ ) ‘ to be able to entertain you in our modest home . |
| 2 | As a species of conspiracy it had its persistent weakness : fear of discovery led to revolt before the compromisos were firm enough . |
| 3 | In poetry it found its perfect fulfilment ; already , his vocation was being felt . |
| 4 | At the moment it seems our American friends had the right of it , but we are still working with the wild-caught fish and quite often these do not behave in the same way as tank-raised fish do . |
| 5 | But it was the idea of ‘ the garden in the wood ’ which really fired Lady Amory 's imagination ; to this day it remains her favourite part of the garden . |
| 6 | Last week it launched its first multimedia X terminals — units able to produce sound as well as text and graphics . |
| 7 | Last week it admitted its 400th member , the Swedish-owned United Securities Fondkommission , the first time that level has been reached in its 300-year history . |
| 8 | The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ? |
| 9 | The felling , trimming , cutting , absorbed him completely and because of the ferocity of the running chain it demanded his undivided attention . |
| 10 | Later in Michael Ramsey 's life it disturbed his conventional critics when they found a guardian of Catholic orthodoxy saying that he hoped and expected to meet atheists in heaven . |
| 11 | The Commission was supposed to be guided in its deliberations by the Nazimov Rescript , the programme adopted by the Main Committee in December 1858 , and the schemes devised by the provincial gentry committees , but the first and third of these were too conservative for its taste and in the first year of its life it gave them short shrift . |
| 12 | She would not have you informed , in case it placed your own freedom in jeopardy . |
| 13 | Gustavo Gutierrez has stressed the importance of this remark for Latin America , adding : ‘ The preference , the predilection ( not exclusive , let's be clear ) for the poor is not opposed in the mind of the Pope to his universal mission ; on the contrary it makes his universal mission quite concrete ’ ( Alberigo and Jossua , pp. 239 , 240 ) . |
| 14 | what I 'm saying to you now is , I was saying to Arthur , the , the petrol money that we used to put in for petrol , it cost us five pound a week in the winter , but in the summer it cost us eight pound a week sometimes ten |
| 15 | To local residents of the outer city it remains their best form of protection against rapid change . |
| 16 | There could be unlawful discrimination in the admission of pupils ( as discussed in Chapter 4 ) , in a pupil 's access to benefits , facilities and services provided by the school , or by the LEA in the way it fulfils its broad duties under the Education Acts . |
| 17 | She was , he guessed , in her late thirties , and was uncompromisingly plain in a way it struck him few women nowadays were . |
| 18 | But , like , you know , he says the way it struck her one minute , you know , she just a mild cold and next minute , he said the next she 's so bad ! |
| 19 | IBM is using STM to study the surface of silicon , gold and thin layers of oxides in an attempt to learn more about the way it effects their electrical properties . |
| 20 | She 's engaging brain it takes her some time to come out to the phone instruct the whole thing . |
| 21 | In its imagery it recalls his own Deploratio virginitatis male amissae of long ago : |
| 22 | No doubt it gave him more time to enjoy his new pride and joy , a Harley Davidson , classic Hells Angels style motorcycle . |
| 23 | Thus Radio 4 's long-running soap opera The Archers was born and this year it celebrates its 40th birthday . |
| 24 | Last year it introduced its second-generation Legend saloon just four years after the first model was launched . |
| 25 | It would seem that this director was flying in the authority 's private , twice daily , shuttle to the site ( being a wartime airfield it has its own landing strip ) when one of the wheels fell off as the under carriage was being lowered . |
| 26 | As Willis went to the afterhatch it struck him that Dreadnought was rather low in the water , almost on a level with Grace . |
| 27 | Meantime it gives us great consolation to know that you and our dear children are well . |
| 28 | But on the eastern margin it keeps its own counsel : instead of heading out to sea to follow the line of the Easter Island Ridge , this Pacific Ocean boundary stretches ( with only three minor hiccups ) directly down the American coasts , from Attu Island in the Aleutians to Diego Ramirez Island off Cape Horn . |
| 29 | Digital Equipment Corp will be trailing far behind IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co by the time it gets its Alpha-based hardware out , according to Butler Bloor Ltd 's Open Systems report , published this week . |
| 30 | That 's only half the time it took me last time . |