Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] it [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public prosecutor Andrei Makarov declared afterwards that it had been significant " not so much because it punished Ostashvili , but because it brought to light the forces standing behind this small figure and exposed the fascism which is growing in society " . |
| 2 | Well of course it 's gon na move , if she says your face she might be sick cos it sees Caelia 's face punishment |
| 3 | And they tolerated Gustav — gave him a job on the land — as long as it kept Mina happy and she kept them happy . |
| 4 | From a purely selfish point of view , if the policy were to indicate specific areas of the county erm where this policy would er be appropriate and would apply erm and as long as it excluded Craven , then I think |
| 5 | Our theme is ‘ A well that never runs dry ’ — and it never runs dry because it represents God 's presence with us . |
| 6 | He reached the milestone in just under three years — but his 109 matches were five more than it took Lewis Jones , of Leeds , to hit the same target in the 1950s . |
| 7 | It also put an end to any enjoyment of the meal , because Marguerite seemed to sink into a gloomy silence that worried Jenna far more than it did Alain . |
| 8 | What concerned him more than it did George was that the child would be a boy . |
| 9 | Well as daft as it seems Dennis as you probably know in this sort of game you 're on the roads very late at night and when you 're on the roads very late at night , you get a lot of bored policemen |
| 10 | At dawn one spring morning a heavily loaded freight train , headed by a pre-war 2 — 8 — 0 locomotive , was running out of steam owing to a badly clinkered fire-bed as it approached Brook End signal box . |
| 11 | And secondly , I think the second one is exactly the same as it stands Madam Chairman . |
| 12 | That copy you 've got , well it will be slightly rare because it has Terence Stamp on the cover . |
| 13 | The composer Henri Sauguet was astonished to discover that his cat , Cody , became ecstatic when it heard Debussy being played on the piano . |
| 14 | IBM 's emergency board meeting ousts the entire management , but Thanksgiving by IBM employees is short-lived as it appoints W Michael Blumenthal to succeed John Akers . |
| 15 | The wind spun the sea into feathers of spume , the rain solid as it struck Mariana in the face . |
| 16 | Sterling Software Inc has been very quiet since it bought Informatics , but yesterday the Dallas firm agreed to buy Net/Master owner Systems Center Inc , formerly VM Software , Reston , Virginia for $185m in shares . |
| 17 | IBM Corp held detailed salary discussions with two other people , one of them Lawrence Bossidy of AlliedSignal Inc before it hired Louis Gerstner as chairman and chief executive , the Wall Street Journal reckons : it says it could n't get the name of the other candidate . |