Example sentences of "it [verb] i [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 | The other side of the coin is that it is very satisfying and rewarding because it stretches me in every possible way . |
| 3 | It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us . |
| 4 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 5 | It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year . |
| 6 | I can ask it to read one of these three files , and it presents me with a one-dimensional array of alphabetical characters , including the characters that you are now reading . |
| 7 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 8 | If I rush it unsettles me for the whole session , and I invariably feel as though I have not done something right . |
| 9 | It 's so incongruous it stuns me for a few seconds . |
| 10 | The descent was nerve-racking and it reminded me of the slow , queasy way light planes come in to land in Himalayan valleys . |
| 11 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 12 | ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said . |
| 13 | It strikes me as a great idea , and it 's hard to see how they can lose when you consider that 2000AD magazine sells 300,000 copies a week . |
| 14 | When the suggestion of a flight along the whole coastline of South Devon and Cornwall , stopping perhaps for a cream tea at Land 's End , and back up along North Cornwall , Devon and Somerset was made , it struck me as a perfect combination of scenic beauty and very little flight planning . |
| 15 | It struck me as a trivial , but irritating error ; the dust-pan would have been conspicuous not only from the five ground-floor doorways opening on to the hall , but also from the staircase and the first-floor balconies . |
| 16 | It struck me as a sensible arrangement , but my mother was horrified . |
| 17 | It struck me as an intelligent and fair system which had the merit of being open and above-board and easily comprehensible . |
| 18 | The best players in the world have been here this week and it leaves me on a high note . ’ |