Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It successfully portrayed itself as having the solution to Britain 's economic problems which it saw as being due to excessive State intervention in every sphere , and to the dependence mentality which this produced . |
| 2 | Obviously radio would never recover the prominence of the post-war years , but it successfully re-established itself as meeting a need complementary to TV , whether judged by audience figures or by advertising revenue . |
| 3 | The gamble is that the more people know about the workings of behaviour the more they will use it skilfully to benefit themselves and others . |
| 4 | She expected an angry response , and it rather unnerved her when it did n't come . |
| 5 | It rather shook me when I discovered I was pregnant by you . " |
| 6 | It effectively charges it because if you 've got six thousand allowances and you withdraw that amount putting it against the total income it means that you 're actually paying tax on those by deduction . |
| 7 | Beth had been surprised to know that Cissie herself had been thinking along those very same lines , and it only told her that she was right about Maisie 's children — they were growing up fast . |
| 8 | It only shows itself if by mischance you get two haemophilia genes , two recessives , at that point in your , in your erm you 're in very serious trouble . |
| 9 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 10 | Love and attention being the rewards of infantile behaviour , it only amazes me that I did not think of the idea sooner . |
| 11 | Claudia shrugged her shoulders ; that aspect of it only bothered her because of the way Dana might react . |
| 12 | But it only needs one that you can not avoid , and you 'll be spending said fifty thousand pound plus per annum in respect to that one patient . |
| 13 | It so fascinated me that I stopped in the middle of the subway . |
| 14 | It suddenly struck him that this was not perhaps the best time to go into the history of the Established Church in England . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm hoping to see something of Czechoslovakia while I 'm here , ’ she replied , but as it suddenly struck her that the silence emanating from Ven Gajdusek was decidedly chilly — and since the last thing she needed was to be bad friends with him if he objected to Lubor Ondrus flirting with her on his time , ‘ But now I must return to my hotel , ’ she added . |
| 16 | This situation had strong elements of farce , and it suddenly struck her as in danger of getting out of hand . |
| 17 | Then it suddenly hit her that , of course , he did n't approve of relationships . |
| 18 | because this , this , your friend , I mean you have n't been doing it long have you and she will only talk to you in French wo n't she ? |
| 19 | It merely overrides it and makes it unenforceable for the purposes of excluding liability for death or personal injury . |
| 20 | It merely tells us that the young people were neighbours sharing " a common stair " . |
| 21 | I work in Chipping Norton at the Presbytery and erm it just amazed me that she could tell someone not to smoke . |
| 22 | Is there any local investment in the project , or does it just involve you and the builders ? ’ |
| 23 | No , well but er it , it , it 's it just strikes me as being a very , very immature when you 're in another person 's house |
| 24 | Fair enough yeah because it just struck me that there 's a lot of er a lot of disgusteds all at once there . |
| 25 | So it just records everything that 's going on . |
| 26 | Perhaps only three or four keys on the typewriter keyboard that the computer will have need to be pressed at all , and if a child presses the wrong one it does n't all stop and funny , you know , impersonal messages come up on the screen saying he 's done something wrong , it just ignores them and waits for one of the correct responses . |
| 27 | It just annoys me when they 're always fagging . |
| 28 | It just reminds me that you 're going back on Tuesday . ’ |
| 29 | Every time you look at me like that it just reminds me that I 'm cheating you , short-changing you . |
| 30 | Well that 's it I said well it just shows you that they do watch what y for you do n't they ? |