Example sentences of "[conj] [pos pn] [noun] [vb base] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far better that its messengers take it only to plants of exactly the same kind where the genes it carries will unite with eggs and form seeds . |
| 2 | And I think that even patients with lung cancer find it impossible to smo , stop smoking That is , perhaps , not so important , but what is much more important is that their families find it impossible to stop smoking ! |
| 3 | Listening to Iago is a double process of decoding : deciphering his utterance in the way that his dupes understand it , and decoding it again to understand how he meant it . |
| 4 | Thus , the JanSport backpacks which were once Lo Life standard issue are now widely derided , as Moet and his friends turn to more sophisticated techniques : ‘ The way me and my friends do it now is to wear a suit and tie like we was just comin' from work , and carry a travel bag to carry another suit . |
| 5 | I 'm happy with my body because my husband loves it and my children cuddle it and I feel great about it . |
| 6 | There 's a girl my elder brother wants to marry , and my family want it , too , but she likes me better , and I like her , and her parents wo n't force her . |
| 7 | SWAPO and its sympathisers condemn it for let ting the South Africans out of their bases . |
| 8 | A patrol car spots us and its occupants make it clear we are under observation . |
| 9 | Jessy and her husband feel it is a priority that their children go through school , but are already worried that they will not be able to afford to send the eldest to secondary school . |
| 10 | The street below was in darkness but the houses opposite caught the moon 's light in their tiles and curtained windows and their shine cast it back upon his troubled face . |
| 11 | We know it , miners and their families know it , and the country knows it . |
| 12 | There are also sexual impulses which they can not incorporate in relationships with their wives , because they and their wives think it would be too animal-like and demeaning to perform them . |
| 13 | The Government and their Back-Benchers know it . |
| 14 | We need to remember that it is no more natural for women to live longer than men than it is for them to have lower incomes , to expect to give up work if their men wish it at marriage or in later life , to be the keepers of family memory , the main carers of those in need , the main sufferers from the empty nest as children leave home . |
| 15 | Steve and his wife use it to keep the weight off and ensure their 3 young daughters get the balanced diet the experts say they need . |
| 16 | How could Herman and his mother stand it ? |
| 17 | 17.68 As James Britton and his colleagues put it : ‘ very close reading of children 's writing is essential , because that is the best means we have of understanding their writing processes . |
| 18 | As Timberlake and his colleagues put it in this brief but incisive review , greens ‘ suggest that this thing called the environment is a sacred garden set aside from human activities . ’ |
| 19 | In their major work on local government finance , Foster and his colleagues describe it as the ‘ mystery of mysteries ’ ( Foster et al . |
| 20 | He and his family let it until Jeremiah Cray , a clothier of Ibsey in Hampshire , acquired it in 1702 . |
| 21 | You and your PP take it in turns to be the ‘ explainer ’ and the ‘ explained to ’ . |
| 22 | With your preparation and your prospecting complete it then becomes a simple matter of erecting the net in the right place on the night . |
| 23 | The NatWest Hospital Income Plan offers practical financial assistance at a time when you and your family need it most . |
| 24 | Because a Woonerf will not be created unless its residents want it , they too will expect to be involved in the planning , whilst there are additional complications of assuaging the fears of commercial interests such as shopkeepers . |
| 25 | The spiny anteater , too , has a long pointed snout , but its spines give it a superficial resemblance to a hedgehog rather than to another typical anteater . |
| 26 | We do it because our customers need it . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll be off and leave you to it , I 'd as lief be elsewhere while your monastics fight it out . |
| 28 | There is no known preventive measure and it simply seems a matter either of good or bad luck whether your ferrets suffer it or not . |
| 29 | After many years without lifting a paint brush , I am now ‘ into art ’ as my family call it ! |
| 30 | Although Liberals and Social Democrats claim that the established electoral system does not work as its defenders say it should , they are at their most forceful when they point out that the established system is " unfair " and unrepresentative . |