Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officers had been plotting a map , in changing colours , to show how the contras were fading out of Nicaragua ; suddenly it reversed its trend , and they were back . |
| 2 | It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B. |
| 3 | So it took them days but we were very glad to have them because they were It was such a good crop and they were lying flat . |
| 4 | You do n't listen to what he 's saying because you know just it just becomes so it takes your attention away . |
| 5 | Æthelred 's henchmen were perhaps able to stifle or ignore discontent for much of the time , but even so it had its price . |
| 6 | Though so it serve our purpose , I would not quarrel with a little license . ’ |
| 7 | So it dominates our screens , it dominates our man , it 's a religion , it encourages bigotry it encourages to neglect their se , their er domestic duties plenty of reasons for not liking football ! |
| 8 | So it heightens my respect for them' |
| 9 | So it heightens my respect for them . ’ |
| 10 | so it required your sanction and approval , that was the position ? |
| 11 | So it bared its fangs and charged . |
| 12 | So it leaves me Sarah , Helen , Jenny , and Donna are all gon na be being chased after by you ? |
| 13 | ‘ No , ’ Connelly screamed , his yell so loud it seemed his lungs would burst . |
| 14 | Anyway it drew my attention to it and I thought god god . |
| 15 | Sheila Kitzinger , childbirth guru , talks abut the ‘ functional ’ pain of labour as though somehow it reduced its intensity . |
| 16 | Somehow it made her heart ache with a wild mix of anguish and recrimination . |
| 17 | Again we talked about this last week , fifty weeks of the year you toil and you look forward to your holiday months in advance , you then take your holiday and somehow it recharges your batteries so that you 're ready to do battle again for the next fifty weeks . |
| 18 | Somehow it found its way into the hands of a government minister , and he got in touch with us . ’ |
| 19 | Already it had its father 's athletic limbs . |
| 20 | Already it had its place in local balladry . |
| 21 | Moreover it recognizes its duty to make such publications accessible to the public at large , and not to restrict access on any grounds other than legal . |
| 22 | Possibly it has its origins in the ‘ white noise ’ techniques which the Brits , ever the innovators , pioneered in Northern Ireland in the 1970s ( it has always seemed unjust that what was deplored then as a human rights abuse was later marketed under the brand name of acid house ) . |
| 23 | In short , what this has to do with modern poetry is very clear ; what it has to do with modern criticism is not clear at all , since that criticism has , as we have seen , no vocabulary for dealing with it , and moves further and further from finding such a vocabulary , the more it takes its lead from linguisticians like Saussure and Jakobson . |
| 24 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 25 | The Professional 's wife , acting as Steward , was dismissed for bad language and automatically it cost her husband his job . |
| 26 | Later it extended its operations to gaols outside London . |
| 27 | Inevitably it had its roots in the previous reign and some of Edward IV 's actions made their contribution to events after his death . |
| 28 | Inevitably it had its roots in the previous reign and some of Edward IV 's actions made their contribution to events after his death . |
| 29 | Previously it had been the sound she 'd longed to hear , but now it filled her heart with music in a minor key , for it was a sound like the drip of tears . |
| 30 | Irena loved the fragrance , and Bella used to like it as a child , but now it filled her nostrils with the smoky smell of decay , of things drying up and dying . |