Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [verb] it [conj] " in BNC.

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1 During the 1920s writers and artists used it as their club and about ten thousand letters arrived there daily for clients who were staying in Paris or elsewhere in Europe .
2 Nevertheless , it was the subsequent interference and attempts to retouch it that damaged Joni 's work beyond repair .
3 Relations of CAP leaders and regular local government officials were often difficult , and critics saw it as giving an open invitation to agitators .
4 It is for this reason that ordinary policemen and women dislike it when the typifications become confused , when decent and honest ‘ victims ’ of crime , for example , become ‘ trouble-makers ’ by taking the law into their own hands .
5 In the early 1980s , because of her past connection with the military establishment , intellectuals tended to shun her and rumours had it that she worked for the Chinese KGB , the Ministry of State Security .
6 But others saw it and the crowd shuffled free a space to let them through .
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