Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remembered the way the midwife had bent her knee so that Carolyn 's calf pressed against her thigh , and held it pinned with her own bare arm . |
| 2 | Perhaps women choose this style because it fits with their own , perfectly valid interactional or social goals . |
| 3 | In his life he had risen from being a poor farm boy to become the wealthy entrepreneurial head of a vast business conglomerate , all of it created by his own acumen , and had established a dynasty which still ranks high on the world 's ladder of wealth and social standing . |
| 4 | Any resistance or reluctance by the scion to take everything , perhaps because it is getting some of what it needs from its own roots , and the stock has to start looking for ways to get rid of the unused energy , and that means making its own top growth , which takes the form of suckers or ‘ briars ’ . |
| 5 | As soon as it stands on its own it ceases to be a clause and becomes a simple sentence . |
| 6 | It stands in its own grounds of approximately one and a half acres and from its elevated position has spectacular views . |
| 7 | The villa is impossible to miss — it stands in its own grounds in a really dominating position . |
| 8 | Should a youngster become orphaned at this early stage in its life , one of its aunts , if she is in milk herself , may allow it to suckle alongside her own baby and , in effect , adopt it . |
| 9 | It occurred to me such deceptive ‘ little angels ’ would not be above nicking the odd relic if they happened to come across it . |
| 10 | ‘ The means of accomplishing these points did not immediately present themselves : but early in 1765 it occurred to me that , if a communication were opened between a cylinder containing steam and another vessel which was exhausted of air and other fluids , would immediately rush into the empty vessel , and continue to do so until it had established an equilibrium : and if that vessel were kept cool by an injection , or otherwise , more steam would continue to enter until the whole was condensed ’ . |
| 11 | On our last night in Vorarlberg , watching nine-month-old Elisabeth crawling round the dining room and finding a welcome at every table , it occurred to me that , right from babyhood , children instinctively know whether they 're welcome . |
| 12 | It occurred to me that , only a generation before mine , automobiles had been fuelled by gasoline . |
| 13 | The following day , while flogging up Beinn Tulaichean , it occurred to me this is a scheme capable of considerable development , and a National Munro Exchange could be set up — computerised of course . |
| 14 | It occurred to me this was not an ideal arrangement ; I had a funny , cold feeling in the middle of dinner that perhaps we had been wrong to delay matters until this last moment , where there could be no immediate follow-up , when I must leave him the next day . |
| 15 | It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house . |
| 16 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 17 | There are the careerists amongst the senior management of the school , some of whom will seem to have ‘ sold out to the system ’ : to affect a philosophy in so far as it looks in their own interests to do so , to have become executives and to have lost touch with the pupils . |
| 18 | The waitress looks at her pen , as if willing it to write of its own accord . |
| 19 | It will be better to leave that question , together perhaps with questions about the value of larger totalities of activity of which such university education is a part , until after we have considered what value it has in its own right . |
| 20 | History becomes the impossibility between this Scylla and Charybdis — in Lyotard 's terms , it contains within its own project an incommensurable difference . |
| 21 | Erm Well I I mean I think it it depends on your own perspective |
| 22 | It depen it depends on your own system but |
| 23 | So I think he 'd better roll his sleeves even higher and start repairing the damage , plenty of it caused by his own hastiness . |
| 24 | All the same , Americans are naturally most comfortable with what they know , and Mr Major 's win is obviously welcome to people in power — both for reassuring them about their closest ally in Europe and for the omens it casts on their own politics . |
| 25 | Er medical and then sometimes people with a lot of money if they needed a not a particularly dangerous operation they 'd have it done in their own homes . |
| 26 | I see a man up on the hill , but when as the minutes pass he does not move it occurs to me that what I am looking at must be a stone . |
| 27 | It occurs to me that ‘ mail order coffin supply ’ might be a suitable avenue to explore . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It occurs to me that , before returning the animals to the land again , a trace could be put inside each animal . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , if it 's any consolation , it happens to us all ! |
| 30 | It happens to us all at times . |