Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want me to trust in you , you 'll have to do more than protest your innocence , or you go it alone . ’ |
| 2 | Or you raise it outside . ’ |
| 3 | Overreacting with shock and dismay when the child first comes out with a four-letter word is the best way to ensure he or she uses it again and again . |
| 4 | She either involuntarily submits in this role ( as does the woman on the pages of Penthouse ) or she does it voluntarily , like de Sade 's Justine or ‘ O ’ in the pornographic novel by Pauline Reage , The Story of O . |
| 5 | No , my guess is that he or she hid it somewhere in the undergrowth . |
| 6 | Kipling wrote : ‘ We 've only one virginity to lose And where we lost it there our hearts will be . ’ |
| 7 | Monks went off with his money to the other side of the world , where he spent it quickly and was soon in prison for another act of fraud . |
| 8 | He fetched his sleeping bag from the cornbin , where he kept it so the mice would n't make a nest in it , and curled up to go to sleep . |
| 9 | and er , it 's simpler than me doing it anyway in the |
| 10 | ‘ I was always drifting off and losing myself in my head , which I suppose is no different to anyone else except I carried it further , wrote it all down . ’ |
| 11 | The girl that did most of the kissing was the worst kisser , I wo n't say her name although I remember it well . |
| 12 | But although I chose it virtually at random , this does not make it ‘ typical ’ , any more than the horrific Bihar gaol described by Sinha ( 1978 ) in which 143 people had died within three years . |
| 13 | John explained in a programme note that he had tried ‘ to get the robustness of the early eighteenth century as well as the extremely mannered movements of the period ’ and , although I saw it once only , memory suggests that he succeeded to good effect . |
| 14 | although I guess it probably always is , and er |
| 15 | He was talented enough and resourceful enough to survive it , although I think it almost devastated and destroyed him at a certain point . |
| 16 | I like the self- portrait by him at 21 , although I found it quite depressing , he was only 21 and it 's absolutely fabulous ! |
| 17 | This study might appear one sided with more detail about ‘ Anna Karenina ’ but I think it is inevitable and although I found it quite hard to compare such different styles , I enjoyed reading and studying both . |
| 18 | I am not sure now if I ever proceeded to knock ; it is quite possible , given the alarming nature of what I heard , that I judged it best to withdraw altogether . |
| 19 | The point of this is not the trivial name involved , but the fact that I remember it so clearly . |
| 20 | It was n't until much later that I saw it metaphorically . |
| 21 | ‘ But if I 'm honest , I must admit that I regret it now . ’ |
| 22 | Now I know I went to a sp a specialist and that I mean it just keeps on coming back you know , maybe I 'll |
| 23 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 24 | ‘ She was so bad that I thought it well to have oxygen administered ; this I procured from Blake , Edgar 's . |
| 25 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 26 | She thought , Now he 'll say what he was going to say last night , except that I made it hard for him , I was so unloving , so unresponsive . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't know that I like it exactly . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's just that I like it here with you . |
| 29 | I 'll get that I like it so it 's er I did n't |
| 30 | It added a phrase so extraordinary that I quote it directly : ’ although these were felt to be isolated incidents . ’ |