Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] it [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What use is revenge to me if it means the destruction of what life we have left ? |
| 2 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 3 | It hurt us , it hurt them and it hurt the sport . |
| 4 | There 's no money in them and it takes the right machinery to cut them up . |
| 5 | For no special reason except that it was something new to show him and it avoided the long grind out to the airport the brief shuttle flight and another cab queue . |
| 6 | Phillipps bought the two-volume monastic Bible from him and it acquired the Mill Hill number MS 2506 . |
| 7 | It says thousands have packed city centre to cheer her and it said the fervour surprised republicans who have criticized the visit . |
| 8 | I 'm sure he would n't have liked the way we communally beheaded him but it did the job . |
| 9 | Jessica dropped in a reference to the Playboy of the Western World , her eye on Rory , but it passed as far over him as it did the seamen . |
| 10 | As usual , rainwater fills up the aquifer and water flows out from it where it meets the surface . |
| 11 | ‘ I am all for it if it stops the bombings , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Then in the June issue reader Roger James says he has used it and it caused the rubber seals to swell and advise we check that rubber seals are compatible with silicon fluid . |
| 13 | I build to it during the lost-in-the-wood speech and then it starts a bit uncertainly and then they really get it and it hits the show like a trumpet solo . |
| 14 | The neutrino also carries with it a large transverse energy but the particle 's properties are such that the experiments at CERN can not detect it and it escapes the apparatus unseen . |
| 15 | press it and it starts the tape , it stops the tape |
| 16 | Demagnetise it and it sucks the heat back again . |
| 17 | taking it cos it did the same thing . |
| 18 | When receiving a ball from Clarke , he missed it but it caught the straps and was taken by the ‘ keeper . ’ |
| 19 | Since the NPT 's adoption in 1968 , the French government 's position had been that it would abide by the terms of the treaty but would not sign it because it granted the two superpowers a privileged position in international relations . |
| 20 | He predicted that Democrats would support it because it had the greatest chance of securing enough backing to become law by overriding a presidential veto . |
| 21 | Early in my journalistic career I learned that one should never use a preposition to end a sentence with — remembering it because it committed the error it condemned ; whatever the consequence , I was now fully convinced that Moose Jaw was not a bad place to be from . |
| 22 | I 'll always keep it because it shows the original sort of colours that Fair Isles were made in . |
| 23 | It all started with the idea of re-establishing the archive of the Verein Berliner Kunstlerinnen ( Association of Women Artists in Berlin ) which was destroyed during the second world war and developed into a journey of discovery , which has reached this point with the following achievements : 1200 women artists on record ; many works discovered ; the archive set up ; a profusely illustrated catalogue ( in fact the word catalogue does not give an idea of the range of articles contained in it since it covers the history of women artists in German-speaking countries , to art-business oriented articles , to facets of the history of the association , followed by a chronological development of the association and a full catalogue of the works on show , divided into sections , as they are in the exhibition ) ; a dictionary with short biographies of 1200 artists and 700 friends of art called Kathe , Paula und der ganze Rest — Ein Nachschlagewerk ( Kathe , Paula and the rest of the bunch ! — A Reference Book ) , which has caused something of a stir ; and of course , finally , the exhibition showing the works of 70 of the members and guests of the association over its 125 year life , which includes 250 works loaned by 100 institutions and individuals . |
| 24 | Usually , on reconnaissance escort , the Germans drove the camera plane home within ten minutes , and often they got it before it recrossed the Line . |
| 25 | We 've had no other reported sighting of it before it entered the Broad . |
| 26 | I lunged for the meth. bottle and caught it before it hit the floor . |
| 27 | I managed to get a copy of it before it hits the shops . |
| 28 | General , and later President , Eisenhower visited it when it became the American second General Hospital . |
| 29 | It is seldom simple and even the more experienced operators make mistakes , often because they do not understand the difference between source — what the original sound is like — and acoustics — what happens to it when it leaves the loudspeakers . |
| 30 | They did n't have any control , certainly , and not even very much knowledge as to how the commodity — and I 'm talking about cotton , rubber , tea , copper , bauxite , coco , sugar , coffee and so on — what happened to it when it enters the market of a developed country . |