Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together they plot to undermine and ruin their errant spouses by hitting them where it hurts corporate types the hardest : their egos and bank balances . |
| 2 | The Director could n't ask what it was , not without implicating himself if it went wrong . |
| 3 | Over the next 12 months , it will buy another 1.89% in the open market , and gets an option on a further 4% for another $150m from Olivetti 's shareholders ' syndicate by June 1994 ; that adds up to 9.92% , which if it paid current prices for the shares it buys in the market would represent a total investment of about $330m . |
| 4 | Environment officials — who argue that the convention should be theirs because it concerns conservation rather than aid — now appear to have won their case . |
| 5 | Techniques vary but it is important to work at them until it becomes automatic so that , when the time comes , you do n't need to think about it too much . |
| 6 | Please discuss this with me if it seems confusing ! |
| 7 | What it gets across to the students is that they must deal with women appropriately , hugging them or holding them if it feels natural , rather than standing back and playing doctor . ’ |
| 8 | Such a gene could pay for itself if it motivated little girls to in fact compete with their brothers for what their brothers might otherwise er get uncontested . |
| 9 | If the medicine you are taking is not listed there , ask to speak to the pharmacist at the shop where you buy it — he or she will be able to tell you if it contains any of these drugs . |
| 10 | Young skin is less able naturally to protect itself as it contains less melanin and therefore has less tanning ability . |
| 11 | So that makes it worth three rather than one cos it adds two on . |
| 12 | I think it er , on reflection I think er I would discourage members from having a three-way table show I like the , the one-off you know , one against one because it works better |
| 13 | I said , ‘ Cynthia would n't let him ’ , which was silly of me because it aroused several emotions in my mother . |
| 14 | Well I would expect that the Prime Minister would , I think this nonsense that is behind all this is that because I am talking to Gerry Adams , they do n't want to be seen to be talking to me because it looks this fingerprint argument |
| 15 | Ask him if it seems dead here compared to those days , and he smiles gently . |
| 16 | He had been frightened somewhere in a tight locked-up place inside him because it seemed impossible that they would land safely , and the final swaying descent had made him ill . |
| 17 | It still thinks that by interfering and pouring on more layers of bureaucracy and government it will achieve something that has eluded it for so long and will continue to elude it if it takes that path . |
| 18 | ‘ So it would seem much more sensible to allow badge holders access to start with and then withdraw it if it becomes unworkable . ’ |
| 19 | no , if it if it stays dry after dinner you can have the cars and bikes out |
| 20 | Thus where the discretionary fund management arm of a conglomerate receives confidential information from the corporate finance arm about Company X , the fund management arm may be prevented from using the information of disclosing it if it has actual knowledge of the breach of confidence or possibly where it ought to have known of the breach . |
| 21 | Discard it if it has awkward wires or some other hazard on the approach , and choose another field . |
| 22 | Equally it might be argued that since withdrawal from NATO was the last card he could play in his campaign against American influence , short of defecting from the West altogether , there were good reasons not to play it until it seemed likely to be effective or became absolutely necessary . |
| 23 | If it is dry and unyielding we automatically chew it until it becomes comfortable to swallow . |
| 24 | " Lick it until it feels better and then go to sleep . " |
| 25 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |
| 26 | I only got it cos it looked nice . |
| 27 | Because if you start messing your duvet up at night times it means that you do n't want to sleep underneath it cos it goes all scrunchy and horrible , and all the duvet bit comes out of the cover . |
| 28 | Jinny remembered seeing it and slipping past it because it looked complicated and she was tired . |
| 29 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 30 | ‘ I remember it because it had grey military markings , ’ added Duncan . |