Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind her head on that wheel cos it 's got some if she gets it her hair wo n't she ? |
| 2 | and she calls it my froglet doggie . |
| 3 | A sense of smell is the first and primary thing for the animal because it gives it its sense of direction and it 's very important and it goes gently cold , delicately as the dark snow . |
| 4 | But though it may sound free and uninhibited , the skeleton framework of harmony or a theme , which can remain almost completely hidden , supports the whole and gives it its coherence . |
| 5 | The question really means : What is it about the idea of a god that gives it its stability and penetrance in the cultural environment ? |
| 6 | Because the compression ratio is twice that of a petrol engine , diesel runs hotter , and therefore more economically , right from start-up , which gives it its edge in stop-start journeys . |
| 7 | Difficult modes of speech may be coined to convey difficult themes , but the private nature of the artist 's invention is what gives it its power . |
| 8 | The scope of the legal doctrine , and its implications for constitutional change , can not be settled except by analysis of the political morality which gives it its authority . |
| 9 | She first nourishes the child in her womb and then gives it her milk … |
| 10 | He does it his way and that 's how a manager , be it at club or international level , should act . |
| 11 | The Queen Mother is also a shrewd judge of character who makes it her business to keep an eye on new members of the family and , if necessary , step in to protect her beloved ‘ firm ’ . |
| 12 | The lady Alianor makes it her business to discover all that goes on , and has many influential friends — yet she has made no mention of it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's addressed to her — that makes it her property . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Whatsoever then , he removes out of the state that nature hath provided , and left it in , he hath mixed his labour with , and joined to it something that is his own , and thereby makes it his property . ’ |
| 15 | He makes it his business to extract from fashion whatever element it may contain of poetry within history , to distil the eternal from the transitory … |
| 16 | Iago continues in other , more familiar postures , professing love to Othello and Desdemona ( III.iii. 119ff. , 136ff. , 196ff. , 213ff. , 218f. , 225 ) and feigning a sympathy for their sufferings which we know to be a covert expression of his gloating : As Cicero said , there is no more flagrant injustice than ‘ that of the hypocrite who , at the very moment when he is most false , makes it his business to appear virtuous ’ . |
| 17 | He makes it his business to know what is happening on the street — although he is rarely if ever seen there himself these days — and feeds these spontaneous trends into the crucible of high fashion , to make it fizz and bubble . |
| 18 | What makes it your land ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm afraid a quarter of a million pounds sterling paid out on your mother 's life makes it my business . ’ |
| 20 | Love makes us see the truth , makes it our duty to tell the truth . |
| 21 | Helen 's tearful mother Anne Stephens said today : ‘ Whether you believe it or anyone else believes it my daughter is innocent and she 's been sent to prison for a week for something she has n't done . ’ |