Example sentences of "it [verb] [det] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it using all its fins , and are these fins held out proudly from the body or clamped ? |
| 2 | It has all his hallmarks , Fran . |
| 3 | It transpired that his mother only had one leg . ’ |
| 4 | It 's ha it happens all your life , the noise is there all the time |
| 5 | Creggan came out of his concrete shelter into his cage , the branch thrust right over it and on to the path in front , and smaller branches from it filling half his cage with confusion . |
| 6 | when was it built all them factories it was built in the seventies when the boom was in |
| 7 | As it happened all his discoveries went against the Peripatetic views , and as he advanced so the attacks on him grew , largely because the lesser ones among opponents saw their cosy lives of repetitions of dogma in danger . |
| 8 | Its tension caught the reader , there was an emotion in it , shared between him and them and it turned all his attention away from himself on to the subject matter he was speaking . |
| 9 | It gets all its nutrition , all its oxygen etcetera etcetera through the placenta from its mother 's circulation and the mother has no problem whatsoever in her body functions , right , otherwise she would be a mongrel , so the food is going straight into the baby , it 's like being drip fed , there 's no problem . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , it gets all its moisture from seeds and dew . |
| 11 | I mean that , that have to hold top and bottom , you put something in the soil and it gets all its nourishment in the soil and that |
| 12 | ‘ It takes all your colour , ’ she began hesitantly , ‘ and I know I hardly look as though I would know which colour went with what , or what suited whom … ’ |
| 13 | Yet when her visitor stepped a couple of paces forward as though requiring a closer look , it needed all her courage not to back away . |
| 14 | All the people that I 've seen trying to do it have all my sympathy , because I know what they 've been going through . |
| 15 | Only this time it covered half his back . ’ |
| 16 | He had a long-life lead on and I tried to grab the long-life lead it burnt all my hand and he tried to attack the pit bull . |
| 17 | It melts all your disk drive . |
| 18 | So now you club whose Fulham name Of legend , myth and fable , Should show it merits all its fame By shooting up the table . |
| 19 | Mr Wallace acknowledged that his own ideas for a Scottish parliamentary council were unlikely to proceed , but a campaign for a multi-option referendum was ‘ the only thing we can all unite on as it encompasses all our differences ’ . |
| 20 | For martial artists it mattered less what form you studied than that you made it a way of life . |
| 21 | And I tried to do a pattern but it sent all my eyes crazy counting these |
| 22 | ‘ No ! ’ she squeaked , thinking that , far from it taking all his charm , her willingness could be achieved with only a minimum of persuasion . |
| 23 | When they crested a wooded hill shortly before sunset and saw cultivated fields stretching down towards a small village in the distance it took all her will-power not to beg that they stop there for the night . |
| 24 | She watched him nervously and then he casually stretched up and removed his damp shirt so that it took all her powers , her resolutions , to appear composed in sight of his taut , powerful torso . |
| 25 | It took all her determination to stand her ground until finally he brushed past her . |
| 26 | The images his words had triggered were running riot in her brain , and it took all her strength to blot them out . |
| 27 | It took all her strength to reach out for the receiver and raise it stiffly to her ear . |
| 28 | She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her . |
| 29 | It took all his willpower to keep his teeth biting into the rubber . |
| 30 | It took all his willpower and concentration to banish the sound of it , and fix heart and soul on the celebration of the Mass . |