Example sentences of "it [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without trying looking very heavily at these type of sales , where savings plans have been sold for future mortgages , erm , the clients are left thinking it 's building up money for their , for their deposit , for their legal fees , and it guarantees them a mortgage at sometime in the future . |
| 2 | It guarantees YOU a lump sum — either on your 65th birthday or after ten years , whichever is later . |
| 3 | Moreover , where a woman dares not register her non-consent because of a man 's violent or frightening behaviour , the law is permitting him to benefit from his own wrong if it grants him a defence on the basis of an honest but unreasonable belief in consent . |
| 4 | Did it throw you a bit did it ? |
| 5 | In a sense this Northern mythology asks more of men , even makes more of them , than does Christianity , for it offers them no heaven , no salvation , no reward for virtue except the sombre satisfaction of having done what is right . |
| 6 | It offers them an alternative to expensive air fares . |
| 7 | Cooke says : ‘ Egg pasta is certainly preferred by many chefs not only because of its excellent colour and flavour , but because it offers them the possibility of upgrading their pasta menus , thus increasing their profits . ’ |
| 8 | But what makes this machine really special is that it offers you the chance to create an unlimited range of embroidery designs . |
| 9 | With its creation and destruction of individuals , it offers us a presentiment of the primordial unity that lies behind the world of phenomena . |
| 10 | But apparently they know that I 'm really forward which is absolute , actually not very true cos Ed said that I was quite forward and he , I was only forward with him because the person I got off with just before him was bloody forward and it made me a bit forward but I calmed down after that , you know ? |
| 11 | ‘ Katherine , I am glad we had that little talk before dinner , even if it made me a trifle nervous . |
| 12 | Ironically , it was so bitter that it made him a liability to the early Fascist movement , from whose main body he was later to break away . |
| 13 | I am saying this to show you the other side of Basil — this firmness — this absolute integrity — if you believe in a thing lie would say , even if it made him a bit unpopular , which I think is marvellous . |
| 14 | It made her a bit uncomfortable . |
| 15 | If truth were told , it made her a lot more than simply afraid , but telling him that would simply add to his ammunition . |
| 16 | It made it a weekend marriage , but it seemed to work . |
| 17 | If Hong Kong ever does achieve democracy , it will owe Mr Lee a monument : for the time being , it owes him a holiday . |
| 18 | England is mine , It owes me a living ’ . |
| 19 | When it found him the mouth opened in a roar of triumph , lips pulling apart behind the vizor to reveal huge yellow teeth . |
| 20 | But then , on 12 October , It found itself the target of a takeover . |
| 21 | Did n't it win her an Oscar or something ? ’ |
| 22 | It cost them a fortune in both cases . |
| 23 | it cost them a bomb that did |
| 24 | United put profits before results last season and it cost them the Championship . |
| 25 | ‘ It cost me a fortune — but I did n't think I could bear to see you again . |
| 26 | It cost me a deal in time and labour and money to get my castle back from them , and if we had not had such a pious garrison — all but the lame and bedridden in church ! — they would never have prised their way into the place . |
| 27 | Yeah for the sake of what , it cost me a fiver , probably a tenner these days , speculate to accumulate |
| 28 | ‘ All I know is that it cost me a lot of money to learn . ’ |
| 29 | It cost me a lot extra to have it shipped over but it 's worth every penny . ’ |
| 30 | Based on the idea of a cliche , an often repeated phrase is n't it oh it cost me an arm and a leg , erm which is n't meant to be taken literally . |