Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [pron] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If it worries you so much , Surgeon Chang , you might send two of your best men to accompany me on the journey home . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ Sandison said , ‘ if it affects you so much , why do n't you go inland yourself ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Why do it , ’ she said , ‘ if it gives you so little satisfaction ? ’ |
| 4 | Whereas she ca n't stand doing the pictures cos it takes her too much time . |
| 5 | Could you tell me a little bit about when you first moved to Harlow , because it interests me very much the fact , I did n't , I was n't aware that you lived in a , house that was |
| 6 | It 's going to be very strange , but I love all that because it gives me so much more of a challenge . |
| 7 | Preston half understood this because it was in him , too , but he rejected it , also , because it scared him too much . |
| 8 | As an index it is rather unsatisfactory since it tells us very little about how active a person is or what he believes … |
| 9 | " The judge asked how we could possibly do any more with the garden , and it 's true that the only way forward is by making small changes , which we like to do as it gives us so much enjoyment . " |
| 10 | Like Bakhtin , Lecercle manages these moves without sinking into the quagmire of Marxism ; language may be a structure " erected on the unstable basis of contradiction and strife " ( p. 187 ) , but it is not a game in which there will ever be winners or losers — it will just go on being what it uncontrollably is , for it speaks us as much as we it . |