Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their mother had warned them to beg for forgiveness when their turn came to pray to their great-grandfather 's spirit before the altar , and it seemed certain to Lan 's ten-year-old mind that if she and her brothers had angered their father so deeply they must also have offended the spirits of their illustrious ancestors too . |
| 2 | ‘ 'Er ’ was apparently Rose 's ma , and it seemed likely from Rose 's hints and sniffs that all the children had different dads , which , looking at Ma Bailey , fat , defeated and unlovely , Sally-Anne found difficult to believe . |
| 3 | It 's passable , he says , and it leads direct to Tmjillo . |
| 4 | Conversely , a golfer occasionally has a phase when the hole really seems larger and it seems possible to hole almost every putt . |
| 5 | Certainly witches still have a tradition of performing rites at special places in the countryside and it seems natural for people to want to express their relationship with the Earth in the form of ritual at sites where they know the earth energy can be found . |
| 6 | Now more than ever England is a reluctantly cosmopolitan society , and it comes easy in England to subordinate the different experiences of sexes and nationalities to a single archetype . |
| 7 | The manager can say this and that and it looks good on paper and there may be great reasoning behind it . |
| 8 | His business contacts were being checked , but it seemed unlikely to Azadi that any of them would have been in a position to spirit the shipowner away at a moment 's notice . |
| 9 | David Kelly gets in a shot — but it went wide of Brentford 's goal |
| 10 | This recalls the sequence at several civitas capitals , including Cirencester and Exeter , but it remains unique to date at the small towns . |
| 11 | But it remains prone to generalizations : ‘ we share a common root as women … capitalism , imperialism and racism are symptoms of male supremacy — sexism ’ ( 1970 : xxix , xxxix ) . |
| 12 | The United States was not a signatory in the CENTO arrangement , but it became involved in CENTO planning and some of its military committees and virtually committed itself to a military response to an attack on any of its members . |
| 13 | Delays in handling the spillage and the stricken vessel caused the movement of the slick , but it became clear by Jan. 11 that the slick would not actually reach the coastline , largely because of the strength and direction of the prevailing sea currents , and because of the light quality of the oil ( Arabian Light ) . |
| 14 | But it looked mighty like Switzerland . |
| 15 | Sounds foul , but it tastes good on meat . ’ |
| 16 | But it gets cold in winter . ’ |
| 17 | With demand for the Diamante and the Starion GTO/Dodge Stealth so high — they share platforms and mechanicals — the UK gets only one version , but it comes loaded with goodies . |
| 18 | One computer printout format included incidences of errors and diagnostic information as well as right or wrong codings , but it proved time-consuming for teachers to use and expensive to produce and post , so generally only the simpler right or wrong data were sent to the schools . |