Example sentences of "it [verb] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again it amused him to note the general application of what he was beginning to think of as Wexford 's Law . |
| 2 | It asked him to omit the Foreign Secretary 's residence , and although generally to conform to the 1856 conditions , he should ascertain Hammond 's latest requirements and find out if the building could be reduced in size . |
| 3 | You can either draw it model it made me draw the last one I 'll model it this time , it 's good fun ! |
| 4 | It helped them get the over-all view of what was happening here , ’ he said . |
| 5 | One of the key determinants of US policy towards Iraq last August was that it believed it has the military forces sufficient to evict Iraq from Kuwait . |
| 6 | It allows them to promote the false claim that the blacks are not fit to run South Africa when clearly they are still at each other 's throats . |
| 7 | It allows us to record the principal ideas , key concepts , competing explanatory theories and illustrations used . |
| 8 | It allows us to segment the external world of experience in all manner of arbitrary ways and to create artificial internal worlds to suit our convenience . |
| 9 | It makes your holiday look a bit more expensive at first , but it allows you to make the most of your stay . |
| 10 | It allows you to select the next field to access ( see below ) . |
| 11 | Oh yes it 's ver I mean the priest , it says it has the British Embassy , he has , he is an American serviceman and he actually has |
| 12 | The senator paused to light his first Havana of the day and as he got it going he studied the matted vegetation of the riverbank through its smoke . |
| 13 | ‘ Does it amuse you to state the obvious ? |
| 14 | Did it amuse you to seduce the poor doctor after the noble Marquess ? |
| 15 | It allowed us to do the same , if we wished , with our churches . ’ |
| 16 | Does it enable them to make the right choice in the heat of the moment ? |
| 17 | Now if I do it at half that speed , if I do if I drive at thirty miles an hour , how long will it take me to do the sixty miles ? |
| 18 | Fans wrote letters to the band enthusing and it prompted them to include the rustic version on the CD , cassette and French version of the single . |
| 19 | Most people are accustomed to follow linguistic rules more or less slavishly , but in this case they would be glad to change if only someone gave them a new set of clear rules to follow ( an earlier work by Miller and Swift was subtitled ‘ New Language in New Times ’ : it seems they take the optimistic view that we are living in a postfeminist world ) . |
| 20 | I think that if a young person consents to such a placement , then it seems they have the emotional capacity to tackle their behaviour without recourse to such a placement ; such an attitude needs working with , not locking away . |
| 21 | ‘ I have changed my appearance considerably since I was with the Black June but it seems I made the right decision after all . ’ |
| 22 | It seems he gave the fledgling architect his head . |
| 23 | In order to prove it was not composed of ‘ patsies ’ , as Reagan put it , the United States insisted that Arafat repeat specifically worded concessions concerning terrorism and recognition of Israel , and when he failed to do so verbatim , it required him to repeat the authorized US version . |
| 24 | For instance , it enabled him to use the very struggle for a subject , which had occupied so much of his line , since we can partly see that struggle as a struggle within Milton over his own humanist heritage . |
| 25 | It enabled him to ask the bluntest of questions in the politest of tones and to disguise his opinion behind the blandest of smiles . |
| 26 | Picturesque asymmetry appealed to him because it enabled him to allow the logical sequence of the rooms and considerations of service and privacy to determine the entire plan from of the house without any unnecessary duplication of accommodation . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't care what they ask me if it helps them find the real killer . |
| 28 | As soon as the handshake was complete , Charlotte turned away , eager to look elsewhere for the instant it took her to absorb the simple fact of his marriage . |
| 29 | Erm it means they have the same functional group . |
| 30 | Disorganised French industry was slow to get into gear , and when it did it committed the traditional error — not emulated by the Germans — of having too many models . |