Example sentences of "it [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |
| 2 | And last night it got me into hot water . |
| 3 | It soileth my soul , It leadeth me into deep waters , |
| 4 | Whilst other sections of the population are clearly severely affected by these government policies , disabled people experience these particular ‘ reforms ’ as an attack on their human right not to be incarcerated without trial and conviction , in so far as it renders it in some cases impossible to live outside institutions . |
| 5 | The government did indeed make new judicial arrangements for the peasantry , but it made them in 1861 . |
| 6 | As partners at Middlesex we tried to steal Test matches off each other when England were only playing one spinner , and it made us into better bowlers . |
| 7 | The decision we made was careful , it involved us in much work , and it was , in the event , I think , a seriously mistaken decision . |
| 8 | But it stopped it like that , it was only just smouldering you know . |
| 9 | It focusses them on some of the visual clues they might otherwise miss . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's now coming up for its 12,000 mile service , and does n't feel as though it needs it at all . |
| 11 | An ancient animal with 5 per cent of an eye might indeed have used it for something other than sight , but it seems to me at least as likely that it used it for 5 per cent vision . |
| 12 | It strips us of all the illusions and idolatry of the world , to face our basic personal need . |
| 13 | It smothered him like dense mist . |
| 14 | Unless it starts us down that road fairly quickly , the people of the north-east and the other regions will not want to follow . |
| 15 | and they 've got it in but it wants it at different times does n't it ? |
| 16 | Sixty pound fifty it cost me for six months ! |
| 17 | She would make Hari Morgan interested in her scheme for an emporium however much it cost her in lost pride for in . |
| 18 | ‘ It places me alongside such distinguished past captains like Sir Monty Finniston , Sir Campbell Adamson and Sir Matthew Goodwin' , she said . |
| 19 | It drove him in 1950 to establish a committee to help people in need . |
| 20 | Ya so that if the goes up to thirty thousand the reserve might be large enough to give it to sell it for that price . |
| 21 | He had found his kingdom , and though it filled him with Adamistic yearning , he was somehow powerless to enter and possess it , Why was this ? |
| 22 | Her husband had found this fishy , and perhaps for that reason it filled her with intense curiosity . |
| 23 | put it put it in that one . |
| 24 | Yeah what was it costing us for that weekend ? |
| 25 | It provoked him to impotent fury , but there was nothing he could do . |
| 26 | It 's a bit like Alien ex and it kills them off one by one . |
| 27 | It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car . |
| 28 | It did not , however , initiate the longer-term processes discussed above , although it affected them in different ways — contributing to the globalization of liberal political ideas and economic policies , posing new challenges to the European integration process as the East European states seek to participate therein , and stimulating the process of fragmentation . |
| 29 | The bible forbids the taking of blood but we also believe it protects us against many of the medical problems which exist today |
| 30 | This is not magic , for it introduces us to new relationships of intimacy and friendship , rather than of impersonal power and fantasy . |