Example sentences of "[pers pn] it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 She did n't catch what he said — his words too soft and indistinct — but his half-grin told her it had smutty connotations .
2 ‘ He told me it happened 10 days earlier .
3 To them it represented infinite riches , well worth committing murder for .
4 And as a a facilitating policy erm it in their it it assists all parties in er dealing with er applications that come forward that are contrary to reductive development plan .
5 Analyses showed that water contained eight parts of oxygen to one of hydrogen ; on Dalton 's assumption , then , the atom of oxygen weighs eight times as much as that of hydrogen , while on the H 2 O formula favoured by Davy and by us it weighs sixteen times as much .
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