Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , Clarence 's grant was a dead letter in Richmondshire , although it gave him extensive interests elsewhere , notably in Lincolnshire and East Anglia . |
| 2 | In practice , Clarence 's grant was a dead letter in Richmondshire , although it gave him extensive interests elsewhere , notably in Lincolnshire and East Anglia . |
| 3 | ten ninety five and , and we had two bottles last night so it costs us sixty pounds . |
| 4 | Even if it took me ten years I would get my own back . ’ |
| 5 | If it took you 15 minutes then you were walking at 4 m.p.h. : Speed = Distance/Time = 1 mile/0.25 hours |
| 6 | Madame Gloriana turned away murmuring to herself , ‘ That 's what they all want to know , although I 'm not at all sure if it does them any good . ’ |
| 7 | If it strikes you this way , let me remind you that Peter 's particular values are not the point at issue , and invite you to sit down quietly and compose your own , very different equivalent . |
| 8 | ‘ If it takes me seven centuries , I shall do it . ’ |
| 9 | Cor even if it takes you three days ! |
| 10 | So this is , there 's going to be an X cubed term in here somewhere , and there might be X squared and Xs and anything else , but if it cuts it three places , it 's got three r three roots . |
| 11 | If it brings you any comfort , sergeant , her life expectancy was already very short . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If it gives you any pleasure . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If it gives you any satisfaction to know that . ’ |
| 14 | I will not pass this way again to see if it did him any good . |
| 15 | Ring her mother , not her , cos it costs you extra money when you ring her on that bloody telephone ! |
| 16 | In her analyses of Freud 's conception of female sexuality , she demonstrates that Freud 's view of women as lack or as absence forces them into the discursive position of the hysteric because it denies them autonomous identity and obliges them to mimic the voice of the dominant male if they wish to be heard at all ( 1974:66–71 ) . |
| 17 | Madam , Nearly two million of us belong to the National Trust because we believe in what it stands for , and because it offers us superb value for our annual subscription . |
| 18 | Many people feared involvement in popular education because it made them immediate targets of the Contras . ’ |
| 19 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 20 | And that 's , I think , important because it gives us some concept of how far we would have to go to get there , as it were , apart from seeing it . |
| 21 | I think it 's probably better for us to stay away from all the f—ing scenes in Sydney because it gives us original ideas on life . ’ |
| 22 | Because it brings me some comfort . ’ |
| 23 | Hank came in and did a lot of recordings , which I was glad of because it gave me some relief . |
| 24 | We spent a short time discussing how Sylvia now felt about that long-ago event and whether it caused her any distress to think about it . |
| 25 | Cromwell had thrown in his lot with the Levellers when it suited him two years before and so was regarded by them as no better than a mutineer himself when he turned against them . |
| 26 | That you brought her here , back to her chosen home , does not give you a better claim than ours , though it does you infinite credit . |
| 27 | In the face of foreign invasion , James panicked and fled the country in December 1688 ( though it took him two attempts before he finally escaped to France ) , and in February 1689 a specially convened Convention Parliament established William and Mary as joint King and Queen and debarred all Catholics from the succession in the future . |
| 28 | Julian watched them , and every moment of watching only confirmed his election , though it set him another league away from her . |
| 29 | They 're usually happy to help out , as it gives them extra pocket money . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's good to get new blood as it gives us more spark . ’ |