Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Madam , Nearly two million of us belong to the National Trust because we believe in what it stands for , and because it offers us superb value for our annual subscription . |
2 | She is too afraid of her reaction : ‘ To this day , it drives me crazy listening to her various hypotheses , the way religion and superstition all merge with her own beliefs . |
3 | The ORIGINAL DRAWING section is similar in principle to a charting device in that it allows you total freedom to create a diagram of any shape that you want and to knit that shape using the yarn , stitch pattern and tension of your choice . |
4 | And it 's got a ship and erm there 's people on there and it shows you this thing round the ship erm they have a storm and suddenly the sh the erm what do you call it ? |
5 | Ring her mother , not her , cos it costs you extra money when you ring her on that bloody telephone ! |
6 | Erm If I 've got sixty miles to do , and I do it at erm do it at sixty miles an hour , it takes me one hour . |
7 | She 's engaging brain it takes her some time to come out to the phone instruct the whole thing . |
8 | It is therefore not unusual for junior nurses to feel that it takes them some time to " settle in " on a surgical ward . |
9 | In her analyses of Freud 's conception of female sexuality , she demonstrates that Freud 's view of women as lack or as absence forces them into the discursive position of the hysteric because it denies them autonomous identity and obliges them to mimic the voice of the dominant male if they wish to be heard at all ( 1974:66–71 ) . |
10 | It pays you generous interest on your money , and there are no account charges . |
11 | It reminds you that part strings are acceptable but , as is usual , the more complete the entry the less ambiguous the search . |
12 | Another noteworthy aspect of Circumspecte agatis is that it reminds us that legislation at that time was by no means limited to parliamentary acts , but could result from decisions of the king and his councillors , expressed in general writs to his justices and sheriffs . |
13 | It reminds us that mission did not originate , in the earliest days , in the leadership of the Church . |
14 | This hardly tallies with the sentiments expressed in a letter in the possession of the College in which Coleman , writing on 24 February 1813 , gracefully declined an invitation to become President of the London Veterinary Society : ‘ Gentlemen , I received your letter , and it gives me great pleasure to see so much zeal for the improvement of the veterinary art in Gentlemen , whom any & every Teacher might well be proud to call his Pupils — I shall most willingly grant the use of the College Theatre for the examination and discussion of such points as may be considered by you most important for the advancement of the Veterinary Science … you rightly observe that a number of minds concentrated on one object can not fail to improve any art far beyond the reach of any individual and I have no doubt that the Public will ultimately derive great benefits from your united exertions . |
15 | And it gives me great pleasure to personally invite you and your guest , to spend a luxurious weekend on the Craigendarroch Country Estate , just a few miles from Balmoral in the heart of Royal Deeside . |
16 | " It gives me great pleasure , Madame Sherman , to welcome you and your son to the imperial court of Annam , " he said politely . |
17 | It gives me great pleasure to wish AEA Technology and their new journal Competitive Edge every success in their efforts to assist the technology transfer process . |
18 | Congress , it gives me great pleasure to declare congress open . |
19 | Thank you very much , er , conference , and indeed it gives me great pleasure to address you this morning . |
20 | It gives me great pleasure to commend to the House the fourth report by the Select Committee on Social Security . |
21 | And now let us proceed with the next business of the day , it gives me great pleasure your Royal Highness to er invite you to present several Save The Children awards this morning . |
22 | It gives me great pleasure because people are extremely kind and extremely generous . |
23 | But it gives me great pleasure to introduce Mark Lennox Boyd , the parliamentary under secretary of state , the foreign and commonwealth office , a position he 's held for some time . |
24 | Then it gives me great pleasure now to erm I always knew that John al , has had something different from the rest of us you know he has that kind of air does n't he , that that status in the pulpit which you know , ? |
25 | It gives me great pleasure to announce that that would mean Cherwell District Council would have to disappear as well , and that would be another blip off the horizon erm but that what would happen you would therefore have a smaller authority , who would then become the Education Authority , and that would be would have to be , I think , somewhere in between the current District Council size in Cherwell or the Vale , of what about a hundred thousand , and the present county , which is rather more than half a million . |
26 | It gives me great satisfaction but we are not shouting about being second for what might be a few hours . ’ |
27 | It gives me little pleasure to agree with him , but I do so . |
28 | A lot of these breeds come from Britain ; they are mostly British , and when you think of seeing the mull , as we do around the countryside , coming back to their proper standard , it gives me considerable pleasure . |
29 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
30 | It gives me some satisfaction to learn that 12 years later British Airways , privatised , efficient , and highly profitable , has become the biggest international airline in the world , while Lufthansa , struggling with high costs , has seen its reputation slip . |