Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , these subcultures respectively enable corporate officials and lower-class adolescent males to commit crimes without too many pangs of conscience ; through their sanitizing prism , each sub-culture softens criminal acts so that they assume the appearance of ‘ not really ’ being against the law , or it transforms them into acts required by a morality higher than that enshrined in a parochial criminal law . |
| 2 | Skinnergate faces two choices : it either declines into a traffic-filled street of second-rate shops or it cleans itself up , providing an open air alternative to the Cornmill 's enclosed space . |
| 3 | We must or it kills us ! " |
| 4 | It rejects the aspects of female subjectivity which escape conventional psychology 's boundaries , or it reclaims them ; but it does not address them directly . |
| 5 | So every time you pass an E R F on the motorway or it passes you , it 's one of our engines from that 's powering it . |
| 6 | Or it killed them straight off . |
| 7 | ‘ That kind of thing either brings you closer together or it separates you . |
| 8 | It presupposes that either this government has all the authority it claims over its population or it has none . |
| 9 | Then , when it is ridden in the show ring , or it sees something possibly threatening , its anxiety peaks — it promptly stands on its hind legs or pulls its tongue back over the bit . |
| 10 | I know that giving a man on a ventilator morphine in high doses , enough to cause general anaesthesia , is risking his life , and it distracts me to think about whether or not it 's ethical . |
| 11 | He seemed so nice and dependable — just the sort of person one would like for a brother — and it hurt her to think that he might be double-faced . |
| 12 | Dimly , Mrs Palichuk perceived that she was in the way , and it hurt her . |
| 13 | He loved her deeply and it hurt him badly when he learned the truth about her . |
| 14 | She was absolutely indifferent to him , he thought , and it hurt him suddenly . |
| 15 | He watched her eyes fire with the old , familiar irony , and it hurt him like a blade . |
| 16 | I mean I 've had mine flood and I 've had its thermostat go and it boiled everything . |
| 17 | And it load your trolley . |
| 18 | If a boat heeled right over it 's not good for the boat and it slows you down , it is far better to reef , the technique is just the same afloat as it was ashore . |
| 19 | and it slows you down , and it goes in out and like that |
| 20 | once you get a bad habit and it slows your writing down as well |
| 21 | ‘ And it spoils our view of the sea . ’ |
| 22 | I found the way here when I was a boy , and it spoils you for the human world . |
| 23 | It was half-blind and its fur was staring and it expected nothing and desired nothing save the crust by the table leg on which its half-gaze was fixed . |
| 24 | She wore a linen knee-length frock the colour of sand , and it suited her . |
| 25 | She was wearing the blue and green dress and it suited her every bit as well Claudia had thought it would . |
| 26 | It had been styled rather well , as though she 'd gone to a really good hairdresser and it suited her , was soft over her forehead and short at the back . |
| 27 | Edward rented it from a woman who lived abroad , a woman he had never met , and it suited him perfectly . |
| 28 | It was traditional , and it suited them . |
| 29 | Mrs Burrows had made her a red coat with fur on the collar and cuffs and it suited her dark hair and huge brown eyes perfectly . |
| 30 | Maybe he caught some virus from a jungle or a desert somewhere , and it infected his brain and slowly ate it away and he got hallucinations and tremblings and gnashings of teeth till eventually he fell into a coma and was flown home . |