Example sentences of "[pron] it [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the Middle East Commandos from which the bulk of the unit originated , the SBS never quite obtained the recognition it deserved , being little known even within the theatre in which it spent most of the war . |
| 2 | When the larva is about to shed its skin and change into a pupa ( which it does prior to emerging as a real fly ) , it exudes a sticky fluid . |
| 3 | So is an appendix devoted to the umpires , from which it emerges that of the list of 31 only six have not been first-class cricketers : a healthy ratio surely . |
| 4 | The Commission is planning a last-ditch battle to defend tax proposals which it considers essential for completion of the 1992 internal market programme . |
| 5 | 9.2 Subject hereto and same insofar as any defect or error in any technical information shall give rise to any liability on the part of any Party to the Secretary of State for repayment of Grant or otherwise pursuant to an IEATP Offer of Grant each Party shall be under no further obligation or liability in respect of any technical information which it furnishes pursuant to this Agreement and no Warranty , Condition or Representation of any kind is made , given or to be implied as to its sufficiency , accuracy , or fitness for purpose , or freedom from infringement of patents or other Intellectual Property Rights and the receiving Party shall in each case be entirely responsible for the use to which it puts the same . |
| 6 | For instance , the conditions in which it becomes possible for an animal to perform an act that would bring it food become rewarding themselves . |
| 7 | Moreover , an ant under the sway of a dope-peddling caterpillar eventually enters a state called ‘ binding ’ , in which it becomes inseparable from its caterpillar for a period of many days . |
| 8 | The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) . |
| 9 | Braintree says the southern link road was included in the package simply to push the overall cost up to a level at which it became eligible for government funding . |
| 10 | Braintree says the southern link road was included in the package simply to push the overall cost up to a level at which it became eligible for government funding . |
| 11 | The affair highlighted the fragility of Endara 's government and the extent to which it remained dependent on the presence of nearly 10,000 US troops . |
| 12 | There are excellent courses available for home study and the Society has it own Language School which it makes available for people who need help . |
| 13 | Since candida is not a bacterium and is not affected by antibiotics , it needs no prompting to colonize the vagina , which it finds devoid of its natural bacterial competitors . |
| 14 | The work in the Netherlands is therefore considered here with that of the Germanic Baltic group with which it has much in common . |
| 15 | A large bustard whose backward-pointing crest gives it an outline more like the African Kori Bustard A. kon than the Great Bustard , like which it shows white on the wings in flight . |
| 16 | To her it felt right to be there with David , her skin soft against his , her senses alive to his touch , and she succeeded in banishing her fears of what would happen when they stepped out of their circle of magic and back into the real world . |
| 17 | ‘ To me it sounds similar to youth training schemes — a disgrace . |
| 18 | So , I 'm thinking oh it 's hard , when I actually feel it it feels thicker at the end and it does feel better but when I 've washed it , I shall feel all hairy now all afternoon . |
| 19 | He lifted his wrist experimentally to see what it felt like without the support . |
| 20 | Dot wished she knew what it felt like to be brave , and wondered if she 'd ever get the chance to find out . |
| 21 | On another level , an actor is someone who remembers what it felt like to be spurned , to be proud , to be angry , to be tender — all the manifestations of emotion he experienced as a child , as an adolescent , in early manhood and maturity . |
| 22 | What it felt like to be on the receiving end of such operations and the hammering which the landscape endured in those early years of the nineteenth century are painfully conveyed by another poet whose roots were in the East Midlands . |
| 23 | Bradbury 's first novel , Eating People is Wrong ( 1959 ) , tells what it felt like to be a first-generation student in a civic university like Leicester in the 1950s , puzzled and intrigued as a humble newcomer by liberal values of knowledge-for-its-own-sake and a wholly unfamiliar style of life . |
| 24 | It is after all quite difficult to remember exactly what it felt like to be a small person when you yourself have n't been one for thirty or forty years . |
| 25 | She was still terribly young and anyway , I think I was just a boy to her … any boy … and she wanted to know what it felt like to be kissed . ’ |
| 26 | But he remembered very clearly what it felt like to be followed . |
| 27 | What it felt like to be left out . |
| 28 | Biggins wondered what it felt like to be living in Nuremberg ; to have heavy bombardment every night . |
| 29 | For their part the Brazilians want to play British oppositon to remind themselves of what it feels like to be searching for the ball in the air for much of the game . |
| 30 | Jacob learns what it feels like to be cheated himself , even on a wedding night for which he has waited seven years ! |