Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] it [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
| 2 | Sustained collaboration was usually initiated by pupils themselves , or else it required the presence of the teacher for all or part of the time . |
| 3 | The rheme is all there is in the clause and so it receives the reader 's undivided attention . |
| 4 | And so it killed the Doctor . |
| 5 | Each ‘ hour ’ — Matins , Lauds , Vespers and so on — consisted of psalms , prayers and readings from scripture and the fathers and so it gave the nun a form Lectio . |
| 6 | But I suspect a lot of you would want to leave them with a matt finish , it 's entirely up to you Anyway when you paint , like I say , it 's just it 's because it 's porous it sucks the colour off the brush and er it immediately dries , so you can see , straight away , the colour it 's gon na be when you then put the varnish on you use a sort of matt varnish and so it brings the colour up but it wo n't be shiny or a shine , which you 're gon na choose like you might wan na matt varnish with this and shiny for the shell which ca it really brings the colour up , we wo n't get round to varnishing today erm and the other thing you can do , if you want erm a sort of a mottled effect you do pink in a base colour say Mikila wanted all greeny , bluey colours on that |
| 7 | A stream of the same name drains a wide moorland above the fall and below it enters the head of Loch Glencoul . |
| 8 | And already it holds the record in Britain for the inland stretch of water with the highest number of bird species in winter . |
| 9 | Then , one week , the quietest woman in the group said : ‘ This is the only place where I can afford to be honest , ’ and somehow it seemed the healing process had begun . |
| 10 | In the f and ff it helps the tuba to combine with the trombones by imparting to it the ‘ edge ’ which it otherwise lacks . |
| 11 | This time it held out longer , and gradually it learned the way to work its muscles and to develop their strength . |
| 12 | Each time she finished a film , she would tell Mum the title and once it reached the cinema , Mrs Pilling was to be seen at every performance . |
| 13 | When the Young Man returns and the movement is again repeated more slowly and deliberately it becomes the signal of a tender reunion . |
| 14 | This partly reflects the fact that strikes are a dramatic form of conflict ( or at least they can be portrayed as dramatic events ) , and partly it reflects the fact that public opinion in Britain is firmly fixed upon strikes . |
| 15 | Incidentally , much of its work was done in support of the Citizens ' Advice Bureaux , erm , in which it helped develop er , computer applications , and also it had the courage to organise a major AIDS conference . |
| 16 | so that we know and also it puts the guy in context for I mean these if I remember I mean H M S O are mega bucks buyers |
| 17 | Lyle , as defending champion , had to be-jacket Faldo , and coincidentally it signalled the end of perhaps the finest stretch of golf played by a British golfer . |
| 18 | Firstly it is good for our health since it strengthens the heart , secondly it burns up extra calories and helps to increase our metabolic rate , and thirdly it improves the contours of our body . |
| 19 | The government has already introduced tougher laws on food hygiene and now it hopes the register will help council officers enforce them . |
| 20 | The review may be evaluated generally by how effectively and efficiently it met the objectives set out in Document 1 , on the basis of which it had been negotiated . |
| 21 | Under the French it housed the senate ( hence the name ) , and today it houses the State Archive , a collection of documents covering 1,200 years of Lombardian history , one of the most important archives in Italy . |
| 22 | And then it gets the sun at the back , you know |
| 23 | Running under shortened sails in front of the northeaster , the boat rocked one way , gave a thump , and then it rolled the other . |
| 24 | He counted the seconds , one , two , three , four , and then it hit the tent with a fury that he had never known , he inside in his sleeping bag with his feet braced against the dome pole facing the onslaught . |
| 25 | And yet it dominates the debate . |
| 26 | Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth . |
| 27 | He had specifically wanted somewhere with a farm and Highgrove had 410 acres ; also , to be within easy range of his friends and relatives , and again it fitted the bill . |
| 28 | This is an alternative to 4.1 and again it requires the Vendor to anticipate what additional rights the Business should be authorised to use . |
| 29 | Partly it was pride ; I could n't countenance exposing all that I was feeling ; but — and I know this does n't mitigate anything , but perhaps it balances the self-interest , self-protection or whatever it was — even then I was also still afraid of succumbing to the temptation to use the power I sensed I could have over you , and the use would have been abuse . ’ |
| 30 | It is sometimes quite incredible the kind of information people expect the reception desk to supply , but generally it takes the form of questions about train , bus and taxi services , which means up-to-date timetables and the telephone numbers of the local taxi services must be to hand . |