Example sentences of "it [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 2 | WordPerfect on it to compare it with the other one and it was I er said |
| 3 | I found the way here when I was a boy , and it spoils you for the human world . |
| 4 | Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme . |
| 5 | Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes . |
| 6 | It oppressed him like the static heat of the big sun — the lion sun — when nothing stirs . |
| 7 | It was a size too small , but finally the leather stretched so that it fit her like an elastic corset . |
| 8 | The French were only ready to discuss a common market if it provided them with a high tariff ‘ wall ’ against outsiders and if there were complicated measures to guarantee equality of competition between members . |
| 9 | It drew her to a big yellow truck , where a dark scarf of smoke tugged across the pavement . |
| 10 | Within the Rolling Stone thing , I mean , part of it has you as the chief designer and you have to accept the notion that two heads are better than one , which means designers can not |
| 11 | Caroline Durkan , the GDA senior projects executive handling the scheme , said yesterday : ‘ It places us in an awkward position if we try to get cash from the public sector if the private sector do not see the benefits of Citywatch . ’ |
| 12 | Frankie could not be one of them , yet he feared in his hear that it might be true , because when she called him ‘ Nigger ’ it wounded him in a special way he did not really understand . |
| 13 | The thought of it filled her with an immense regret because a child could not stay a child there would be men ( a man she hoped ) in Nicandra 's life , Aunt Tossie thought with pity and some disgust — her mind scampered hurriedly from the contemplation of a subject not forbidden so much as not existing for her . |
| 14 | It establishes him in a special relationship with God . |
| 15 | It fills us with a deep warmth that will last past midnight . |
| 16 | It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary . |
| 17 | It is sometimes suggested that the absence of note-taking can be a help to the informant , in that it frees him from the inhibiting effects of a recorder and a notebook . |
| 18 | It is a piece that shows Strauss 's deep understanding of nature , and , again , it shows him as the great master of the musical epilogue . |
| 19 | And I 'm thinking work on your , work on your hard drive and when you 've got it the way you want it and when you 've got it the way you want it save it to the floppy and |
| 20 | If you follow it along from the historical site it leads you to a perfect waterfall , and then to a point where flat grass lies between the vertical gorge sides . |
| 21 | Well in fact it showed it as an outstanding amount . |
| 22 | And what 's the point of a journey that seems very pleasant if it gets you to the wrong place ! |
| 23 | The spirit came upon Jesus at the baptism , upon a man , upon a man and it came upon him It raised him from the dead . |
| 24 | The document says it is impossible not to notice how society , for the most part , makes human sexuality banal , since it interprets it in a reduced and impoverished way , ‘ connecting it only with the body and egoistic pleasure ’ . |
| 25 | The other side of the coin is that it is very satisfying and rewarding because it stretches me in every possible way . |
| 26 | The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write . |
| 27 | It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight : |
| 28 | To calculate its fictional arm 's length profits , a firm is supposed to assume it pays the same price ( the ‘ transfer price ’ ) for those imported bits that it would have done were it buying them from an unrelated company . |
| 29 | It takes us from the 19th century through to the 1930s and 1940s and the pioneering work of a number of embroiderers , in particular Constance Howard , who in 1951 was invited to make a large-scale work for the Festival of Britain . |
| 30 | A fortress over the centuries , now it beckoned him with a fine house , The Vines , where once the German commandant had surveyed the desolated scene . |