Example sentences of "it [conj] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had hardly left the office when he built this , his first house as an independent architect , but later was embarrassed by it , and said at one point that he never wanted to see it or hear about it again , and that no architect should be allowed to build a house before he was forty . |
| 2 | On the other hand , he could field more men than any other lord south of the Highlands , and the Douglas power would be invaluable to the regency ; indeed lacking it or opposed by it , any other Regent would be in difficulties . |
| 3 | I think I must have watched it or listened to it or something like that . |
| 4 | Cruttenden ( 1970 ) argues that intonation is affected by and reflects the grammar of what is said , but does not alter it or contribute to it . |
| 5 | Cos nobody 's been sent any notices for it or notified about it . |
| 6 | Example 1:1 Definitions clause for business lease ( 1 ) The following definitions apply : " Act " means an Act of Parliament whenever passed and a reference to a specific Act includes any legislation amending or replacing it or made under it " Approved " means approved in writing by the Landlord " Consent " means the Landlord 's written consent " Insured Risks " means the risks covered by the policy of insurance arranged by the Landlord to include ( subject to cover being available on reasonable terms ) loss or damage by fire storm tempest flood earthquake aircraft and articles dropped from them riot or civil commotion malicious damage impact bursting and overflowing of pipes tanks and other apparatus and any other risks insured against by the Landlord " Landlord " includes the successors in title of the original landlord and where there is a superior landlord includes him as well " Last Year " means the period of twelve months ending on the Termination of the Term " Legislation " means any regulation or directive of the European Community , any Act and any subordinate legislation made under or by virtue of them " Notice " means written notice " Tenant " includes the successors in title of the original tenant " Term " includes both the term expressly granted by this Lease and also any statutory continuation of it " Termination of the Term " includes termination by effluxion of time , notice , forfeiture , surrender , disclaimer or any other means ( 2 ) Where a party consists of two or more persons the obligations of that party are joint and several ( 3 ) Any covenant by the tenant not to do something includes a covenant not to permit or suffer that thing to be done ( 4 ) All payments to be made by the tenant are exclusive of VAT |
| 7 | Earthquakes , especially the big ones , are caused when two tectonic plates — segments of the earth 's crust that float freely on the molten magma beneath — come into contact with one another and one plate bangs into another or rubs alongside it or dives under it . |
| 8 | Watching it or listening to it on the |
| 9 | In addition to these application-specific specialized tagsets , a very general purpose tagset is also proposed for the encoding of entirely abstract interpretations of a text , either in parallel with it or embedded within it . |
| 10 | It now has such favourable associations of secure wage-earning that we hardly bother to question it or look behind it . |
| 11 | to read it or think about it . |
| 12 | The key to survival is to manage the conflict ( the process ) , not to suppress it or withdraw from it . |
| 13 | Twenty-seven trains a day stop at it or start from it ; it serves even the expresses . |
| 14 | They will not be able to move in it or live in it . |
| 15 | This is a subject to which I shall return , but for the moment I prefer to confine myself to the typical picture and to show where my own circumstances coincided with it or diverged from it . |
| 16 | Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life . |
| 17 | ‘ So far as I know , ’ Miss Honey went on , ‘ nobody else in the history of the world has been able to compel an object to move without touching it or blowing on it or using any outside help at all . ’ |
| 18 | Witchcraft in contrast is thoroughly plebeian : princes and chiefs are neither accused of it nor attacked by it . |
| 19 | If you stare at a Rottweiler it thinks you are challenging it and goes for you immediately , knocking you down and tearing your throat out . |
| 20 | If , on the other hand , he was not genuine in writing the letters and had connived or conduced to the fraudulent behaviour of the son , or was even aware of it and consented to it , then he would not under any logical analysis have written the letters in these terms . |
| 21 | Echoing Kant , he insisted that any properly objective enquiry could not impose on its material methods worked out in advance or in relation to some other topic ; only within the context of encounter with and experience of the object itself could it discover how to speak of it and enquire into it . |
| 22 | But there were those who said that Douglas had known of it and connived at it . |
| 23 | She squeezed round it and called to him , but there was no answer , and she frowned a little , as she stood looking round her . |
| 24 | The house owner found it and ran with it to the boat . ’ |
| 25 | Mm you 've got to keep on top of it and keep with it . |
| 26 | lay on and twist it and lay on you know . |
| 27 | My initial motive in going to do something is having the desire to do it , thinking I can do it and moving towards it . |
| 28 | Both want the carp to like it and thrive on it . |
| 29 | Some people like it and thrive on it , others find it very , very difficult to live with . |
| 30 | See I , I personally in , in the past I would 've jumped on it and gone for it . |