Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it killed them straight off . |
| 2 | She had to obey her father , although it made her very sad . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's still forgery , ’ said Sergeant Joe , although it amused him rather than troubled him , this gainful exercise of his talents . |
| 4 | When a chance came up to do them early we took it , although it meant we only had nine working days to fit in with Magnox Shutdown . |
| 5 | In the sand you see the iron although it broke it more but this plough he 'd kept the thing fairly together . |
| 6 | Treat it as junk and throw it away although it cost me more than fifty four . |
| 7 | Marshall 's ( 1984 ) championing of women managers ' distinctive co-operative skills , for example , remains very close to conventional organizational psychology 's idea of these skills , although it assesses them more positively . |
| 8 | He absently slid his programme nearer to her so that it touched him now , glancing at her out of the corner of his eye . |
| 9 | Her Finals were approaching , and she had no idea of what she should do next , and indeed did not dare to think about the future for she knew that it offered her little in the way of readily acceptable projects . |
| 10 | The way I viewed training was that it got me out of the house . |
| 11 | So keen are GKR not to be identified with the less ethical and aggressive end of the search market that it maintains it frequently turns down business ; from any other search firm , this statement might be questionable , but GKR 's standing in the market , and the obvious importance of its untarnished reputation in gaining that position , suggests that it is probably the truth . |
| 12 | With dark hair cut quite short so that it revealed his classically shaped head , a deep tan finished with some light freckles , piercing blue eyes and a mouth that was generous in laughter and very straight and sober when he was absorbed in work , he had become the standard against which any other man she met was measured … and fell short . |
| 13 | In fact , one of the things that had pleased her about her daughter staying in London was that it kept her away from Seaton Cramer Hall . |
| 14 | The other reason she had disappeared with the juniors was that it kept her out of Jack 's way . |
| 15 | Sangenic is so easy and quick to use that it allows you more time to care for your baby . |
| 16 | The advantage of this self-imposed discipline is that it forces you deliberately to do all that is involved in learning from experience and at the same time markedly increases the lessons learned from your various activities . |
| 17 | She had to admit , however , that the main reason that she had phoned the Symses and answered their appeal so promptly was that it took her out of the house , and away from the strain of being with Mark in public while the incident of the night before still divided them . |
| 18 | A divorced friend of mine said that it took her about a year to reach the breakthrough . |
| 19 | Sinking down on her bed , she found that it took her quite some time to get herself more of one piece . |
| 20 | Ironically the price of sterling went up so high that it made it very difficult for us to sell our other manufactured goods and many people are now of the belief that because of the North Sea oil price rises , this had an adverse affect on our economy , making it more difficult for us to sell manufacturing goods because the pound was very strong against other currencies . |
| 21 | The play 's strength is that it draws on Eliot 's earlier work and makes that earlier work transferable to the West End , a triumph in itself ; its weakness , like that of most of the plays , is that it offers us little we can not find more concisely and intensely expressed in the poetry . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps aliens have taken her , ’ suggested Joe , not giving the impression that it concerned him very greatly . |
| 23 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 24 | The Coke was cold and Harry drank it gratefully , even though he could feel that it brought him out in an instant sweat . |
| 25 | For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen . |
| 26 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 27 | Ace took the note and read it , finding that it told her where the Doctor and Howard had gone . |
| 28 | Look at that it fits it perfectly ! |
| 29 | Just that it struck me as strange . |
| 30 | To the shrew , 24 hours seems so long that it divides it up into many smaller intervals of activity and rest , effectively experiencing many days within one rotation of the Earth . |