Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That ‘ event ’ had little to do with science although it did provide us with one or two technological tales , albeit mostly grim ones . |
| 2 | But unable to find the right person , Nikki has now decided to take the children with her , although it means uprooting them from home and friends . |
| 3 | In terms of its effect on the overall festival it certainly was a major underpinning for us because our investment was high , so it does leave us with some problems financially . |
| 4 | She could feel the thick phallus-shaped wedge burrowing further and further into her gaping hole until it had impaled her to the hilt . |
| 5 | In a speech to representatives of the Moscow gentry in March 1856 he announced that it was better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait until it began to abolish itself from below . |
| 6 | That play has as an epigraph a Christian equivalent of the escape through ‘ Shantih ’ from the cycles of creation : ‘ Hence the soul can not be possessed of the divine union , until it has divested itself of the love of created beings . ’ |
| 7 | If it requires to seize anything with the same organ , its tongue will then divide and become forked . |
| 8 | She said she had seen the programme and wondered if it had spoiled anything for me , but I was able to reassure her that it had improved my life . |
| 9 | She felt as if she never wanted to go back into the house , as if it had tied her with a million cobweb fine lines , as the Lilliputians had trapped Gulliver , and that she could not get free . |
| 10 | Ropes were then put on to keep it there but these alone certainly could not have restrained a 5-ton ( 5.08 tonnes ) elephant if it had taken it into its head to dismount during the journey . |
| 11 | If it manages to kill me in my sleep one night , you 'll be as badly off as you were before . ’ |
| 12 | However , if it does mean anything to you , and if you do have electronic mail facilities at your work place or college or whatever , we hope you 'll join in . |
| 13 | ‘ I know it was a shock for the club but I would n't have gone if it meant leaving them in the lurch . |
| 14 | ‘ I know it was a shock for the club but I would n't have gone if it meant leaving them in the lurch . |
| 15 | I had Masquerade to mend and a life to live and , even if it meant living it without Ellen , my charter days were done . |
| 16 | If it chooses to get one from one of its employees , then it seems to me that the preparation of that report by one of its employees is as much a part of the administration of the societies ' business in the field of making advances as is consideration of the report by the assessor required by section 13(1) ( b ) . |
| 17 | He asserted that the West was searching for a pretext for an Israeli military assault on Iraq and that this was a mistake , " because by God we will make the fire eat up half of Israel if it tries to do anything against Iraq " . |
| 18 | But if it 's got anything about |
| 19 | ‘ Damn fog ; it 's rolling in as if it means to isolate us beneath a blanket . ’ |
| 20 | Of course , that 's right it 's cos it 's got it on the . |
| 21 | Because it says put them in individual glasses but er er |
| 22 | This view angered me because it seemed to judge everything in purely monetary terms . |
| 23 | Under the old system , the Leader of the PLP would be seen to enjoy the confidence of that body because it had elected him through an exhaustive ballot . |
| 24 | It can not deal with the problems that do exist , because it fails to see them for what they are . |
| 25 | Indeed , there could be no other topic of conversation since it had hit them like a bomb-blast on the early-morning news bulletin . |
| 26 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 27 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 28 | One does it , one of the things that eh I do n't know whether it does effect you at all Chris but eh , eh Chris , is , is the fact that eh these here foreign lavatories they 've got around the town , now I 'm dead against these for a number of reasons . |
| 29 | Exemplifying the way that lazy speaking leads to lazy writing ( nothing to do with dialect , this ) it began one sentence : ‘ Whever as a mid-day snack or an evening bite ’ Whether it meant to put it like this is unlikely . |
| 30 | To that extent , the EC does not seem to have accepted the ramifications of the post-communist years and has not decided whether it wants to consolidate itself as a rich man 's club at the western end of the continent of Europe , to which the east Europeans can apply for associate membership , or to widen its institutions , starting with freer trade . |