Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ultimately , however , Spain was a stepping-stone in the transmission and survival of Nazarean tradition , which continued its migration northwards , along the Atlantic perimeter of the Roman Church 's authority , until between the mid-fifth and the mid-seventh centuries it found its fullest European expression in the Celtic Church of Ireland . |
| 2 | Now the braking , bearing in mind It takes you half a second to react anyway , but hi his actual thinking distance is about thirty feet . |
| 3 | With his unkempt ginger hair running down into sideboards it made his hard face look even meaner . |
| 4 | ‘ It is — ah — splendid and — ah — heartwarming to see you all here enjoying yourselves , and I want to say — ah — how much pleasure it gives my good wife and — ah — myself ’ ( he could never work out whether it should be ‘ I ’ or ‘ me ’ ) ‘ to be able to entertain you in our modest home . |
| 5 | As a species of conspiracy it had its persistent weakness : fear of discovery led to revolt before the compromisos were firm enough . |
| 6 | I still have nightmares and if there is something on the television about rape it brings it all back to me . |
| 7 | In poetry it found its perfect fulfilment ; already , his vocation was being felt . |
| 8 | At the moment it seems our American friends had the right of it , but we are still working with the wild-caught fish and quite often these do not behave in the same way as tank-raised fish do . |
| 9 | Richard was the King 's brother ; according to Henry 's mood and caprice that might make the young man either indispensable or unthinkable , but even for de Burgh it made it difficult to disparage his stewardship openly . |
| 10 | She 's open-minded , and a single parent : maybe that has something to do with it and with me not having a husband it made it easier for her to come in and see me sometimes . |
| 11 | But it was the idea of ‘ the garden in the wood ’ which really fired Lady Amory 's imagination ; to this day it remains her favourite part of the garden . |
| 12 | If you marinade the meat it makes it full of flavour and very tender . |
| 13 | She tried to pull away , but as she moved her head it brought her closer to his mouth , and when his lips touched hers she was lost , caught up in an explosion triggered by his touch . |
| 14 | One theatre management which gave concessionary tickets , for instance , had never thought about the problems it caused its older customers by refusing advance booking and forcing them to queue for standby tickets . |
| 15 | In some ways it represents its worst dehumanising features — the reduction of meaningful human action to a kind of technical fault ( based on the medical analogy ) to be cured by applied technology . |
| 16 | Last week it launched its first multimedia X terminals — units able to produce sound as well as text and graphics . |
| 17 | Last week it admitted its 400th member , the Swedish-owned United Securities Fondkommission , the first time that level has been reached in its 300-year history . |
| 18 | The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ? |
| 19 | If he is afforded the slightest respect it makes him worse , larger . ’ |
| 20 | The felling , trimming , cutting , absorbed him completely and because of the ferocity of the running chain it demanded his undivided attention . |
| 21 | Here , I 'd like to say that I , I do very much welcome the abandonment of the two wayside routes it gives me particular satisfaction because you recall earlier in the year there was some irresponsible press comments on the subject which greatly upset a lot of people |
| 22 | Later in her life it made her impossible . |
| 23 | Later in Michael Ramsey 's life it disturbed his conventional critics when they found a guardian of Catholic orthodoxy saying that he hoped and expected to meet atheists in heaven . |
| 24 | The Commission was supposed to be guided in its deliberations by the Nazimov Rescript , the programme adopted by the Main Committee in December 1858 , and the schemes devised by the provincial gentry committees , but the first and third of these were too conservative for its taste and in the first year of its life it gave them short shrift . |
| 25 | Secondly having put up this message when I try to exit windows it tells me that 1-2-3 is still active but I can not find a way to deactivate it . |
| 26 | She would not have you informed , in case it placed your own freedom in jeopardy . |
| 27 | But you see if you make it as a , a division it makes it easier . |
| 28 | Gustavo Gutierrez has stressed the importance of this remark for Latin America , adding : ‘ The preference , the predilection ( not exclusive , let's be clear ) for the poor is not opposed in the mind of the Pope to his universal mission ; on the contrary it makes his universal mission quite concrete ’ ( Alberigo and Jossua , pp. 239 , 240 ) . |
| 29 | As a rounded account of the rise of Saddam it has one serious failing in that it pays far too little attention to the economic and social development of Iraq over the past 20 years . |
| 30 | Why does it cost me ten pounds fifty return from Darlington but if I take a single to Darlin to Darlington from York it costs me ten quid . |