Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ God , ’ he muttered against her neck , ‘ you can be the most impossible woman I 've ever met , but I want you so badly that it hurts . ’ |
| 2 | Nigel and Rosamund Starmer-Smith 's tragic loss of their daughter , Charlotte , has clearly affected many of you as deeply as it has us . |
| 3 | They say that nobody remembers who came second but when that has happened to you as often as it has to Montgomerie , it is difficult to forget . |
| 4 | ‘ And perhaps I should remind you that the contract you 've just cited binds you as securely as it does us , unless you 're willing to face interminable legal hassles in an effort to extricate yourself . ’ |
| 5 | He sends you out here because it looks impressive . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ That kind of thing either brings you closer together or it separates you . |
| 7 | JustText can read text files from any word processor , it even tidies them up slightly as it does it , and there is a utility to read MacWrite files but within limits . |
| 8 | It does n't come to me as easily as it does to you . " |
| 9 | I could sense Lili turning her head to look at me , but the urge to talk , to confess , had left me as suddenly as it had come . |
| 10 | The gun roared deafeningly in the small room , its lethal discharge taking Angel Two in the ribcage , almost tearing him in half as it punched him back across the room . |
| 11 | Eventually , we realized that our school work was suffering and a few of us turned him down flat when it came to the sports and he did n't like it . |
| 12 | It suited him less well than it had Zacharias . |
| 13 | By this finding himself relieved , he again resumed his studies until the hour of dinner , when the disorder again attacked him so violently that it produced a fainting fit , which held him till the evening ; he went soon after to bed , and passed a very uneasy , restless night . |
| 14 | New life , green as the holly leaf , was at work inside him as surely as it stirred inside his wife . |
| 15 | Moran hardly heard ; all resentment left him as quickly as it had come : McQuaid was here and it was Monaghan Day . |
| 16 | The smell of oil clung to her as strongly as it did to the rags in the van . |
| 17 | He had schooled it so well that it received the implications of that entire passage of information with no expression at all . |
| 18 | As she returned to her nest , looking around her , she could see it so clearly that it made her laugh . |
| 19 | They 'd get so much grain and they 'd eat it so quickly that it swelled out before they had time to digest it . |
| 20 | and so you could pull it in just until it stops flapping and then you 'd be able to sail away and we 'd never see you again . |
| 21 | I have followed it through closely because it shows the kind of diplomacy which , though no comparable evidence survives , has to be assumed for subsequent relations between Charles and his brothers ( and later his nephews ) throughout his reign . |
| 22 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 23 | Do n't leave it any longer or it becomes hard to control . |
| 24 | The problem in part is ( or ought to be ) one of generalising successful practice , shaping it up so that it encompasses the whole school and motivates all the teachers , not just those who are keen , or authoritatively skilled , in transacting bits and pieces . |
| 25 | Do n't use the other person 's name or use it artificially so that it jars . |
| 26 | Miss Merchiston went to the last door , thumped twice on it with her clenched fist as if by such violence she announced her coming , and threw it wide so that it bounced off the wall with a crash . |
| 27 | " Take a quart of green gooseberries boil them and pulp them thro " a sieve , take the whites of 3 eggs , beat them to a Froth , put it to the Gooseberries and beat it both together till it looks white , then take ½ pound refin 'd sugar , make it into a Syrrup with Spring Water , boyl it to a Candy , [ i.e. to the small thread ] let it be almost cold then put it to the Gooseberries and Eggs and beat all together till t is all froth , which put into Cups or Glasses — Codlings [ green apples ] may be done the same way . |
| 28 | The food that India produces does not find its way to the people who need it as efficiently as it did in the Maharashtra drought . |
| 29 | ‘ I have no future but my children and my wife will take it as far as it goes . |
| 30 | They stood before the dressing table for a while , looking at it and discussing it , apparently , but eventually just turned it round so that it faced the wrong way , rather than turn it upside down . |