Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 2 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 3 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 4 | ‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’ |
| 5 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 6 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 7 | It looks to me on the plan , |
| 8 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 9 | How differently did it appear to him from the Berelands ' assessment ! |
| 10 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |
| 11 | Leon Kennedy slumped in his chair , laughing , and it came to him with the same elegance as movement . |
| 12 | It came to him in the small hours . |
| 13 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 14 | I got , do n't know if they stop doing it altogether now , I really do n't know what erm , you see , I 've got an old one , but it says on it on the voucher it 's not trans none transferable . |
| 15 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 16 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
| 17 | It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions . |
| 18 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 19 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
| 20 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |
| 21 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 22 | It seemed to her like the anus of the entire factory : a black tunnel that extruded the castings , still encased in black sand , like hot , reeking , iron turds , on to a metal grid that vibrated violently and continuously to shake off the sand . |
| 23 | It gives you more confidence , yeah , what 's it do for you within the company ? |
| 24 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 25 | It gets to them in the finish and there 's about eight of them |
| 26 | In spring , summer and autumn it grinned at them from the greenwood . |
| 27 | My film adaptation of Anthony Delano 's richly comic book slip-Up ’ How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him ’ cost the not unastronomical sum of £600,000 to make , so should it turn out to be money down the drain the BBC will have to face some embarrassing questions about why it embarked on it in the first place if it thought the story might be defamatory . |
| 28 | It dawned on her for the first time that perhaps the other woman had married for money . |
| 29 | Now it sounds to me like the final stages of a marriage : two separated parties , screwed to their own particular pieces of floor , uttering routine chatter while the rain begins to fall . |
| 30 | He was reading my data as it fed through him into the outlet . |