Example sentences of "[noun sg] and it [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out there is a whole world full of garbage and it gives me ulcers to throw one more shred of scum back on the heap . ’ |
| 2 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
| 3 | On Sunday , all afternoon it 's flipping football and it drives me crazy ! |
| 4 | His appearance in the Toyota World Match Play at Wentworth in October was his 17th in succession and it gave him the chance of winning the title for a record sixth time . |
| 5 | She had a neat , methodical mind and it pleased her to hunt around for an odd half-hour or so to fill with planting lettuces or doing the mending . |
| 6 | twenty five minutes in a car and it takes you about an , an hour on the bus . |
| 7 | She watched his profile in the dark car and it pleased her , soft floppy hair and a decent nose . |
| 8 | If a boat heeled right over it 's not good for the boat and it slows you down , it is far better to reef , the technique is just the same afloat as it was ashore . |
| 9 | She looked different with her hair cut and it made them feel shy . |
| 10 | He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived . |
| 11 | If i get a good script and it calls me to do a hefty love scene why not ? ’ she added , lips that were once sugary and innocent now curled coquettishly . |
| 12 | Around him he began to see the unfolding beauty of early summer in his homeland and it held him still with wonder and made him forget the passing of the days . |
| 13 | So body language if you read a lot of the books on body language it takes one single action and it interprets it based on that . |
| 14 | I keep getting awful pains in my side and it makes me go all hot . |
| 15 | Seriously , it takes only moments to wind a huge ball of wool and it rewinds it perfectly . |
| 16 | On tonight 's match , Cooper said : ‘ There 's a lot at stake and it gives us the opportunity to put things right . ’ |
| 17 | She told Cleveland coroner Michael Sheffield he became depressed through being out of work and it made him irritable and upset . |
| 18 | There was still heat in the evening sun and it warmed her slowly . |
| 19 | It asks you what you 've got to do for , it tells you what you 've to do for your test and it tells you what you should and what you should n't do , it 's only forty one pages so if you want to read it you can have it , it 's quite good , it 's not full pages either it 's like drawings and just bits of paragraphs . |
| 20 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 21 | After a while Marcus came to his window and it seemed he stared straight into my eyes . |
| 22 | ‘ There is less wear and tear on top management and it allows us to arrange meetings more quickly which might not take place otherwise , ’ says Royal Bank spokesman Alwyn James , speaking in Technicolor from his studio in Edinburgh . ’ |
| 23 | I had understood he knew the man who is to chair the said development committee and it transpires he does not . |
| 24 | erm a flake of paint hit a spaceship windscreen and it cracked it , just a flake of paint ! |
| 25 | I was just a boy and it affected me deeply . |
| 26 | Two more of the nave lights had been switched on but the church was still dim compared with the harsh glare of the arc lights trained on the scene and it took him a minute to locate Father Barnes , a dark shape at the end of the first row of chairs under the pulpit . |
| 27 | With her vivid imagination , Melissa could visualise the scene and it sickened her . |
| 28 | Korda came from a broken home and it left him insecure . |
| 29 | Well , the cape would do no more than implicate Putt in the rape of the gipsy girl and it seems she 's married and gone . |
| 30 | on long play and it lasts us eight hours . |