Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you 'll just have to cry Bryony because you 're going to have them on because it keeps raining . |
| 2 | ‘ It suits me better than it suits him . ’ |
| 3 | every so often , they 've got these little card things well they shove them in and it clicks all these numbers up so I used to buy one token |
| 4 | Some will actually feel that they are inside the body of the former self , and that everything is going on around them just as it does in ordinary life . |
| 5 | Cat owners are sometimes distressed by the fact that their favourite and much-loved cat leaves them shortly before it dies . |
| 6 | He 'll have to show people round at low tide , and get them off before it turns . |
| 7 | Too many coaches want to impose a technical straightjacket on their pupils , which can destroy them more than it improves and helps them . |
| 8 | Oh well tick me off if it does |
| 9 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 10 | Gushing statements to the young person about how this is for their own good , or ‘ this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you ’ ( attitudes which are still prevalent ) are quite unhelpful , virtually damaging in fact . |
| 11 | Simon by then had heavily said , ‘ This hurts me more than it hurts you ’ to Pippa , and when the chaos was over Thomas began to laugh , for he had seen that the lash of the crop literally had curled round onto Simon 's back between each stroke , probably quite stingingly , though the man had been too excited to notice it . |
| 12 | ‘ This hurts me more than it does you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ How can you say it suits me more than it does Dana ? |
| 14 | Whether shorter or longer , the important thing is to make it serve you so that it becomes not a burden but a means of personal reflection and integration . |
| 15 | And it , you do n't have to keep changing all the paper , you just and it does it . |
| 16 | Yet another , fortunately quite rare , follows you around when it sees secateurs in your hands and drops a few eggs into the soft pith of the stem when you make a cut , before the cut wound has had time to callus and heal itself — another reason why you should always try to confine cutting to a fine dry day . |
| 17 | The Prison Governors Association has told me clearly that it opposes the Bill on the grounds that the measures that it contains are ’ too draconian ’ — I use its exact words . |
| 18 | This is a highly competitive field and I did n't want them to rule me out when it comes to promotion because they think I lack commitment . |
| 19 | But they tell me now that it 's been increased immensely now what they get for being an oven man . |
| 20 | I said the libraries are closed on Wednesdays and Fridays , why do n't you come to the library with me today because it 's closed on a Wednesday and Friday . |
| 21 | We 'd best not try to shift him out until it gets here in case we start up more bleeding . |
| 22 | It also fits him well because it pays tribute to the musical influences which play such a large part in his current show . |
| 23 | I have n't spoke to her , I meant to ring her today but it 's been all bloody go ! |
| 24 | Governments , it seems , have yet to learn a fact that most smokers readily acknowledge : the tobacco industry has got them precisely where it wants them . |
| 25 | I suppose I was kicking over the traces a bit and parental authority seemed as irksome to me then as it does to teenagers today . |
| 26 | It made as little impression on me then as it does now . ’ |
| 27 | You turn it on and it tapes people singing or talking . |
| 28 | The reason HP is rated ‘ difficult to arrange ’ by more people than other credit types is not that people think it would be more difficult to arrange , but that people generally were quicker to apply any comments to it presumably because it has a more prominent image for them . |
| 29 | The atmosphere has to find it somewhere so it goes after the molecules locked in the glazes and that 's when the real magic happens . ’ |
| 30 | because er I mean you put anything hot down on that and e the tip is if you put anything down hot , you take a rag and a a saucer with some raw linseed oil and you heat the rag and you rub it gently and it brings sometimes you know the the the white marks . |