Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb -s] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This intake of information from several sources at once is a complex process , and the value to learners of silent viewing is that it lets them concentrate on one element at a time . |
| 2 | It is as if the USA and the USSR were caught in the logic of the Prisoner 's Dilemma or the Chicken Game and the only sense in which this is not mere fiction is that it lets us predict successfully what will happen next . |
| 3 | It 's er it is n't it is n't everyday language , and I 'm not sure that it helps us express what we really want to say . |
| 4 | The most obvious is that it helps you prepare your position so that it is based on facts rather than speculation or wishful thinking . |
| 5 | Simply formulating a title of some sort can be a useful achievement , in that it helps you decide how you want to focus your writing . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ When we play like that it makes me wonder why we are in the wrong half of the table . |
| 7 | The magazine folded and we all got drunk on Bulgarian wine and I made a speech about going out to penetrate the government and cut the arteries of the police state right at its heart — you need Bulgarian wine to say things like that it makes me faint to think of it now . |
| 8 | The vision of Mrs Thatcher raising her arms at the Tory Party Conference and saying she is ‘ proud to be old ’ is so unlikely that it makes us smile . |
| 9 | Rather than enticing your man , its real value may be that it makes you feel sexier and therefore more likely to initiate or respond to his overtures . |
| 10 | Sometimes you meet a guy with just so much plain humanity that it makes you feel humble . |
| 11 | Its unique lightweight design is incredibly simple — so simple that it makes you wonder why nobody thought of it before ! |
| 12 | They react to them in that way because automatically some of them do n't come from a background in which they grew up with father figures and another thing is they ca n't live up to the expectations of a lot of black women , so it makes them feel lesser . |
| 13 | I just change the format a little bit here and there so it makes me write differently . |
| 14 | It gives them an excuse for piling into Deptford , and it lets them target you for a national man-hunt . ’ |
| 15 | And it helps you get a good night 's sleep . |
| 16 | ‘ God forbid ! ’ said Dionne , ‘ just that I 'm living with a delinquent at the moment and it makes me feel mature . |
| 17 | That I think of as a compliment , and it makes me feel good . |
| 18 | It is puzzling when people say I write like this one and that one and all such different kinds of writers and so many of them , and it makes me feel I am nothing in myself . ’ |
| 19 | I keep getting awful pains in my side and it makes me go all hot . |
| 20 | I can do all those nice things in Jan , Feb and March , and not to mention when I get home tearing my garden to pieces , that 's gone to pot , which is as well , because it does n't make it , see , see one thing I find about coming down here , I see the really smarter shops than I would unless I were in Norwich and it makes me realise still after this , I do n't crave for the things in shops . |
| 21 | And it makes me wish that it could always be so . |
| 22 | I should n't have asked that , Florence Ames thought , he does n't care to be questioned about his mother and it makes me seem too familiar , too prying . |
| 23 | But now that items are no longer individually labelled we , the public , have to go by the shelf price , and it makes me wonder how many other prices are incorrectly displayed . |
| 24 | De Levantiére has had her hair cut and it makes her look very sophisticated . |
| 25 | In such a situation the male can take his frustrations out on his mate , as digging is part of the natural behaviour of the fish , and it makes them feel more secure . |
| 26 | So they go and wear one and it makes them feel better for job interview , pulling girls er going to places you know |
| 27 | You ca n't swing on the buggy handle it makes it too heavy and it makes it tip up . |
| 28 | They enjoy themselves and it makes you realise that while we 're in prison so are they , in their own bodies |
| 29 | And it makes you realise that , though he may be famous for having an eye for the ladies , he also has an ear for a good song . |
| 30 | They look like Bahamas do n't they ? been so hot today if you do n't mi er and it makes you feel you know your age , when er it 's this hot weather . |