Example sentences of "it [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It helps pupils express emotions and explore personal feelings : it encourages them to make sense of different situations and different points of view , to practise negotiating successfully with others , and to cope with — and resolve — new situations .
2 That 's great , cos it encourages us to make assholes of ourselves .
3 That 's great , cos it encourages us to make assholes of ourselves .
4 In this type program , the pupils create a model of a situation and test it to see it reflects reality .
5 The third thing about that is that it represents us saying continuum .
6 Something about the way he said it made them pay attention .
7 It 's absolutely horrible but Malcolm would insist on taking you there because it made him feel part of some secret society .
8 ‘ Not taking the drugs made him feel powerful ; it made him feel part of a colourful world which was far more exciting that real life , ’ Silcock said .
9 Hearing it made him feel human again .
10 He cut it very short and all his friends told him it made him look years younger .
11 It made him understand things better .
12 But to complain that its effect was therefore paralysingly glum would no more have occurred to her as fair than to complain that it made her feel fat .
13 Thus , though she had little intention of responding more than politely to any of the advances , she enjoyed the game : it made her feel human .
14 And erm for summer then we put some here and some seaweed and it made it look kind of queer like but Mr Davis our art teacher just thought it would make it look more interesting .
15 What actually does happen , in most cases , is that either you do not lose the weight in the first place , or , if you do , it is on a difficult diet and when it finishes you get fat once again .
16 It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee .
17 Six pound ten Is that what it cost you to buy Willy ?
18 But it helped her to stop thinking .
19 The last person she needed was fitzAlan , but an attendant of humble rank would n't matter , if it helped her to obtain permission to go into the town .
20 It helped us to derive Biot-Savart 's law , it will come handy later in solving certain radiation problems , and it often leads to nice formulae , e.g. for the magnetic flux crossing a surface , defined as unc that may be rewritten in terms of the vector potential as follows : unc where C is the curve enclosing the surface .
21 When , by the sheerest fluke , she 'd discovered he had not one other woman on the side but two , it drove her to near insanity .
22 The comment may have been innocent enough , but it caused me to lose confidence in her and from that moment on something in me just froze .
23 It uses them to test theories in high-status , male-identified areas of psychology , like achievement and self-esteem .
24 But we wan na stay where we are , 'cos it allows us to put records out , it allows us to plod along , which is the important thing for us at the moment .
25 It allows us to put client choice at the core of community care services , ’ she says .
26 One advantage of the self-concept is that it allows us to examine people as they are , as ‘ wholes ’ , not as a series of personality dimensions .
27 ‘ There is less wear and tear on top management and it allows us to arrange meetings more quickly which might not take place otherwise , ’ says Royal Bank spokesman Alwyn James , speaking in Technicolor from his studio in Edinburgh . ’
28 Perhaps the greatest value binocular vision has for us is that it allows us to judge distance .
29 It allows us to express emotions , explain abstract ideas , ask questions , seek out information , cross-question , tell jokes , make an impression upon others , and a hundred and one other things .
30 The real use of this model linking personality development to subject choice is that it allows us to make predictions about how pupils might react to changes in school science curriculum and school organization .
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