Example sentences of "it [conj] [modal v] [adv] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes but the trouble about it is that the English are so insular that lots of them do n't , do n't realize it or wo n't believe it . |
| 2 | A few nurses also commented that patients would wear them when the ulcer was healed , were too old and too frail to get the hosiery on , refused to wear it or could not tolerate it . |
| 3 | Some people , for instance , can not sleep if there is traffic noise at night ; others hardly notice it and may even welcome it as a ‘ sign of life ’ ( I have heard this said more than once ! ) |
| 4 | For the beings who had created it and would not let it die . |
| 5 | The trouble is that I ca n't identify it and ca n't find it in my gardening books or in any of the books at my local library . |
| 6 | There 's a number of students who said they started to read it and could n't put it down . |
| 7 | So I went looking for it and could n't find it ! |
| 8 | Recognise in time , perhaps only from the despair of repeated failure , that you yourself did not cause the disease , can not control it and can not cure it and that in time you may need to surrender the fight and hand over the care of the sufferer 's addictive disease to his or her own appropriate Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 9 | A major difficulty is likely to be that doctors are usually on the side of giving support rather than receiving it and will probably find it difficult to recognise their own needs . |
| 10 | She becomes frightened of the foal or aggressive towards it and will not let it suckle . |
| 11 | I 've smelt it but could n't believe it . |
| 12 | Enjoying , we spontaneously welcome awareness ; bored and listless , we can not without effort summon it up ; disliking , we withdraw from it ; suffering , we recoil from it but can not escape it . |