Example sentences of "the [noun sg] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the afternoon it reaches Forces 5 or 6 , sometimes even seven . |
| 2 | The Electrophone did not diminish box office receipts — on the contrary it tempted subscribers to flock to the West End to see the ‘ real thing ’ . |
| 3 | The verdict It wants greasin ’ was repeated to the dealer ; but as he was a Suffolk man himself he summed up the situation in a moment . |
| 4 | But such dramatic descent to Sheol , the land of the dead they believed to be beneath the earth , could not in any way be expected , and in the story it causes panic . |
| 5 | The Picture that had so nearly secured its hold faded from the refracting blankness in the instant it took Harry to realize what it was that Kingdom wanted from him . |
| 6 | Should the ego fail to satisfy the id it becomes prey to neurotic anxiety arising out of the strength of its instinctual drives ; if it fails the superego it is subject to moral anxiety ; and if it can not meet the demands of the outside world it is likely to experience realistic anxiety . |
| 7 | It overlooks the fact that people with impairments have different needs from people without impairments , and the uniformity it introduces means that the specific needs and characteristics of individuals often go unrecognised . |
| 8 | Despite the pleasure it gave Minton to walk into a friend 's house and find his own wallpaper , purchased without his friend knowing he had designed it , he did not take his interest in this area much further . |
| 9 | The federal project in Europe would in some respects have enlarged Westminster 's competence , because of the capacity it accorded Europe 's national governments to take on the world 's financial markets and thus broaden the taxing , spending and borrowing options that have been , up until now , in the shadow of highly conservative directors of international capital flows . |
| 10 | He prefers the separation it gives actors and audience . |
| 11 | The sound it emits scans the scene in front of it , rather like a beam of light , and its brain uses the echoes received to form a " sound picture " of the scene . |
| 12 | As the marble attempts to surmount the obstacle it looses speed . |
| 13 | Within the business it guaranteed capital , perhaps useful business contacts , and above all reliable managers . |
| 14 | Couple of years after the war it got sort er bit more freer , you see . |
| 15 | One advantage of corduroy , aside from its warmth and comfort , is the richness it gives colours . |
| 16 | After the service it took time for the galleries to empty . |
| 17 | At first in the shadow of the wall it seemed pitch black , but his eyes rapidly adjusted to the light , or lack of it . |
| 18 | Around the back it sports twinax , coax and local network connections , and comes with a solid state disk and built in 3270 and AS/400 emulations . |
| 19 | And it was pink paper and at the top it had space for your parent 's signature so that when you 've done the work your parents had |
| 20 | In September the Ivoirien government cut the price it paid cocoa farmers for the second time since July , to CFA200 per kilogramme ( £368 a tonne ) . |
| 21 | Recollection of the day it visited Millbrook is especially spine-chilling . |
| 22 | The logic of party competition , regular electoral successes by socialist and social democratic parties , rational administration and the control it gives party elites over the state machine have all contributed to the degree of centralization in liberal democracies . |
| 23 | When it was on the ground it looked kind of lost . |
| 24 | In which case then we should be able to say that Saturday working costs X X pounds per item , and in the week it costs Y pounds per item . |
| 25 | In the float it raised £50m cash , so is in a strong position to make its move . |
| 26 | Also , the aquifer itself is slightly elastic ; the pressure of the groundwater it contains forces apart the mineral grains and increases the volume of the pores slightly . |
| 27 | Despite a string of appearances from the bench it took Watson more than a year to open his account , finally breaking his duck in the 2-1 second leg win over Spora in Luxembourg in the last round . |
| 28 | It implies that the ‘ content ’ of a course may be intimately intertwined with its ‘ process ’ : the way it is taught , the staff who teach it , the environment it takes place in . |
| 29 | ‘ When I took it to the beach it went brrmm , brrmm , up and down the sandhills . ’ |
| 30 | And he said as he drove off down the road it went rattle rattle rattle rattle and there were these hole little holes in the side of his van . . |