Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It shows that about three-quarters of the male respondents replied that the tax system had no influence on their work effort , 15 per cent replied that it made them work more and 11 per cent that it made them work less . |
| 2 | It shows that about three-quarters of the male respondents replied that the tax system had no influence on their work effort , 15 per cent replied that it made them work more and 11 per cent that it made them work less . |
| 3 | As she returned to her nest , looking around her , she could see it so clearly that it made her laugh . |
| 4 | He was so wide of the mark that it made her smile . |
| 5 | Geoff Tulloch once advanced the opinion that it made her look like an air hostess . |
| 6 | Despite some criticisms that it made him look like Michael Foot , it was a media success . |
| 7 | He felt a spasm of hatred so intense , so physical that it made him retch . |
| 8 | Nearby the sea terns and eider ducks were nesting , the ducks beautifully camouflaged , sitting tight as long as they could , then moving quickly to reveal eggs of a gorgeous sage green looking so warm in their nest of breast feathers that it made me long for the comforts of my sleeping bag . |
| 9 | I waited to see her face tense as if it was an airtight balloon on a stick ; never mind that it made me choke somewhere in my chest . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The most obvious is that it helps you prepare your position so that it is based on facts rather than speculation or wishful thinking . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ When we play like that it makes me wonder why we are in the wrong half of the table . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Sometimes you meet a guy with just so much plain humanity that it makes you feel humble . |
| 20 | Its unique lightweight design is incredibly simple — so simple that it makes you wonder why nobody thought of it before ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I just change the format a little bit here and there so it makes me write differently . |
| 23 | She was getting her dress all dirty , and it made her cough . |
| 24 | And it made her look at Simon again , he was the messenger , he was a link , it had to mean something . |
| 25 | She looked different with her hair cut and it made them feel shy . |
| 26 | ‘ Our people saw that the Sterling plant was quite different from other plants , ’ Anthony recalled , ‘ and it made them appreciate that because our product was going into a pharmaceutical process , quality is absolutely critical . ’ |
| 27 | When we returned together to Ninfania , you and I , in the late Fifties , there was litter in the streets of southern Italy , and it made them look more unfamiliar to you than the new buildings put up after the war and the bombing . |
| 28 | The worst day we were out here working on the garden and it made me think this must be what it was like in the trenches |
| 29 | ‘ However , there are a lot of good players from around Europe playing on the Swedish Tour and it made me realise what I have to do to make it as a pro . |
| 30 | I 'd stare at him and he 'd stare back at me and it made me want to shoot myself . |