Example sentences of "it [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make it make it twelve X just to be awkward |
| 2 | For a moment she thought it shared her doubts ; there was a hint of a fumble as it doubled its hind legs under for the leap . |
| 3 | Though a draft directive has been circulating since 1984 it passed its final stages rapidly . |
| 4 | The actual administration of the National Union was separated from Central Office in 1921 , and it appointed its own secretary thereafter ; it was a change of no great importance , for the National Union continued to work from Central Office and the Principal Agent continued to be Honorary Secretary , but it was a minor declaration of independence . |
| 5 | She had taken in the grey dress so that it hugged her thin body more closely , but that was her sole concession to fashion . |
| 6 | She had shot him for all the things he had done to her and her husband , shot him because , in the end , she still loved him , and it made his ultimate betrayal all the harder to bear . |
| 7 | So he persuaded himself , for it made his own sin less grievous that he was not leading her into temptation too . |
| 8 | Just as birdsong awoke the unit , an owl is heard calling as it flies its nightly patrol over |
| 9 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 10 | It poked its front door out into the green as though to challenge an equality with the deanery opposite . |
| 11 | So it uses its chemical defence sparingly . |
| 12 | It is being widely acknowledged , in services for all client groups that to judge outcome in terms of reduced reliance on institutional care is an overly simple view of the issues , and that a whole service needs to be judged on the extent to which it uses its residential facilities appropriately , that is for those who really need it , and for an appropriate length of stay to meet their needs . |
| 13 | Does n't it give you two policies rather than one to batter Mr Earle with , or his colleague ? |
| 14 | It just , I think it , I think it affected us last week so erm cos the , the Friday night was well down . |
| 15 | And yet it seemed her annoying presence somehow energised him . |
| 16 | It meets my fundamental requirements all along the line . |
| 17 | Agnes stood directly in front of her mother now as she said , ‘ Would it do you any harm either to go down into the shop or to go over to the house and change the linen ? |
| 18 | something to be dropped on from a great height as frequently as possible er particularly if it 's the G L C. In the United States , however much the federal government is irritated by the state government , it can not attack its constitutional powers nor can it undermine its financial base so that 's a different relationship , it 's a relationship based , not on dominance , but on partnership and there has to be an understanding , a trade off between federal and er a and state government . |
| 19 | and it shook his little lad back |
| 20 | He himself is much better recorded in the studio performance but the new one has a certain documentary value , for it shows him 14 years later still singing the part magnificently , still ( for example ) achieving that remarkable effect at the climax of ‘ Or son sei mesi ’ when , by his phrasingover , the shame ( ‘ vergogna ’ ) becomes the agony ( ‘ ahime ’ ) , and now ( at a time when it must be tempting to broaden baritonally ) deliberately sharpening the edge and brightness of his tenor . |
| 21 | Extremely enters into no further direct interaction — it exerts its semantic influence henceforth only ‘ through ’ fast ; it is fast that directly interacts with cars . |
| 22 | Digital Equipment Corp will be trailing far behind IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co by the time it gets its Alpha-based hardware out , according to Butler Bloor Ltd 's Open Systems report , published this week . |
| 23 | While the ARC places the emphasis I have described on the need to be fair , and to help firms to operate effectively within the new regime , it takes its regulatory role very seriously and the public interest is always paramount . |
| 24 | Does it have its own specificity aside from the problems of the subject , representation , narrative and interpretation , with which many have now shown that it is necessarily involved ? |
| 25 | As it swims away at speed , it jerks its great head upwards and sends the pup , still alive , spinning through the air . |
| 26 | It acquired its fanatical anti-semitism only after Arnold Leese became its guiding spirit in 1930 . |
| 27 | No it took me fifteen minutes tonight to get from school to Kyle 's Kyle 's school ! |
| 28 | It took me ten minutes just to stop shaking so I could walk . |
| 29 | Once they 'd moved in , it took them three years just to make the necessary structural changes , but with a neglected 350-year-old house that was to be expected . |
| 30 | If it took you 15 minutes then you were walking at 4 m.p.h. : Speed = Distance/Time = 1 mile/0.25 hours |