Example sentences of "the [noun sg] it [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exposure it received this year was an all-time record . |
| 2 | Over the piece it shows more beauty and riches than reality can master . |
| 3 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |
| 4 | Perhaps they will one day , but at the moment it seems some way off . |
| 5 | Before the cinema opened the men on the staff were given cigars to puff , so that when you came into the foyer it had that smell of luxury . |
| 6 | It knew somehow that it belonged there , not here , and when thunder boomed in the sky it heard that thunder in its newly transmogrified body . |
| 7 | If there is any money in the account it earns some interest , if it goes into the red you pay some interest . |
| 8 | In the week before the start of the congress it emerged that party ideology secretary Vadim Medvedev was canvassing support among the party leaderships in several republics and in Moscow and Leningrad for postponing the congress until the autumn . |