Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pop 's relationship to different ideas of sexuality and gender is thus deep and intricate : although it frequently denies it , it is from the milieux and sensibilities of the sexually divergent that pop culture draws much of its sustenance . |
| 2 | Unisys Corp and Honeywell Inc say they have settled the pending lawsuits over the sale of the Sperry Aerospace Group to Honeywell in December 1986 — Honeywell reckoned that it paid too much because Unisys held back material information ; Unisys will make a pre-tax payment to Honeywell of $43.2m over three years toward a $70m total settlement , with the remaining funding coming from insurance and an investment banking firm ; as a result of the settlement , Unisys will report a net extraordinary charge of $26.4m against its first quarter figures for the period to March 31 ; it says the charge will be offset by a larger than expected net gain from implementing the FASB 106 and FASB 109 accounting changes that it already announced it would make . |
| 3 | Its proponents would say that it already deserves it , on the basis that the space station , though big , is not really science . |
| 4 | Government points out that it already owns it . |
| 5 | Because when you raised the telephone … he showed great irritation and pretended not to hear you , so that it immediately made you think that you 'd been unwise to telephone at all . |
| 6 | I have to say that it rather reminded me of own early work . ’ |
| 7 | I think myself that this was the case , and that it scarcely makes him very different from many other hard-working people . |
| 8 | I take that as part of the Labour party 's approach to defence procurement , which is to tick off each individual project , factory or programme whenever it comes before the House and to say that it fully endorses it . |
| 9 | No I thought , cos I , I remember reading erm I think it 's her father who owns one of the bookshops in Woodbridge and he had this book on display , you know he sort of erm advertised it if you like and it 's , it 's properly published and everything but he had it as a a book available in his store and there was an advert in the Anglian about it , and I remember reading that she said er that he said er cos it was his daughter who had the child , that it totally knocked them for six . |
| 10 | And Phoebe was so relaxed that it actually amused her to realise that everyone who saw them would assume they were a boring married couple , English middle-class tourists . |
| 11 | It has a well-defined head with compound eyes and antennae ; a thorax bearing three pairs of legs , the result of fusing together three segments ; and a segmented abdomen which , while it no longer has limbs on each segment , retains little stumps as signs that it once possessed them . |
| 12 | It was a state of existence so perfect that it almost frightened her because nothing Perfect lasted for ever . |
| 13 | The expression on his face was so grim that it almost frightened her , and she stared at him speechlessly . |
| 14 | No , I missed him so much , that it really made me appreciate , you know . |
| 15 | It was n't until the final two weeks of term that it really hit me that I was actually going to have to go . |
| 16 | Indeed , some have argued that the ‘ traditionalism of his general philosophy is so strong that it virtually disables him from that critical rationalism which is essential for the appraisal of particular traditions ’ . |
| 17 | The problem with it , so far as we can see , is that if the political system is democratic and the state is relatively neutral then how is it that anyone could use the system in such a way as to ensure that it permanently advantaged them to the exclusion of other actors and interests in the system ? |
| 18 | Ca n't you understand that it only makes her despise you more ? " |
| 19 | This would never yield anything like a reduction of one to the other , but Carnap supposes that it still allowed us to claim that the concept of a material object could be reduced to ‘ autopsychological concepts ’ , those which concern the nature of one 's own sensory states . |
| 20 | I tried it once and it nearly killed me . |
| 21 | And if you 're with National Westminster , you telephone a , a n a number in Manchester or Birmingham or two or three other places I guess but as far as we 're concerned er the Birmingham Manchester one 's the cheapest you , you ring them up and you give them A your identification number and it immediately tells you what your balance is . |
| 22 | generated or whatever , who do you wish to pay to , and we have four erm electricity board , the gas board , the er er er credit card and the , ca n't remember what the fourth one is , you simply say I wan na pay number four how much do you wish to pay to the Royal Bank of Scotland and you say how much you wish to pay in , er in pence and it immediately says you wish to pay blah blah blah it will be done . |
| 23 | It all went down and it immediately flooded her with warmth . |
| 24 | ‘ He talked about his work and it immediately struck me that , as a professional doctor , he had an almost unhealthy interest in the more sordid side of sex , ’ she says . |
| 25 | It is no longer face to face with him but is integrated with him and it progressively absorbs him . |
| 26 | He would , I think , have found Mrs Lavender 's attitude to him something of a challenge and it probably amused him to manipulate Mrs Kettle into defying her and then to observe her reactions . |
| 27 | Not riveting stuff , but at least understandable to you know , the man on the Clapham omnibus , and it probably tells him enough to say to his , his child , you know , for heaven 's sake take that Sony Walkman off . |
| 28 | And it probably beds them in slightly to go off to somewhere else . |
| 29 | Oh , and it probably makes you a bit — you know … ’ |
| 30 | To be greeted by complete strangers with instant derision was a sobering experience , and it vividly reminded me of what it must have been like for those first black people , in the eighteenth century , walking the streets of England freely . |