Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	‘ This hurts me more than it does you . ’
2	Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein .
3	Simon by then had heavily said , ‘ This hurts me more than it hurts you ’ to Pippa , and when the chaos was over Thomas began to laugh , for he had seen that the lash of the crop literally had curled round onto Simon 's back between each stroke , probably quite stingingly , though the man had been too excited to notice it .
4	It also fits him well because it pays tribute to the musical influences which play such a large part in his current show .
5	Our retina is sensitive to ultraviolet radiation , but the eye filters it out before it reaches the light detectors , so we miss out on much of the visual information available to other animals .
6	It 's very windy , of course , so he decides it 's a 2-iron to get to the green and he slams it superbly but it misses right , just off the green .
7	One particularly searching way of appraising informal interviews is to ask ourselves how much we accept what the interviewer tells us simply because it fits in with our own preconceptions or biases .
8	Yet another , fortunately quite rare , follows you around when it sees secateurs in your hands and drops a few eggs into the soft pith of the stem when you make a cut , before the cut wound has had time to callus and heal itself — another reason why you should always try to confine cutting to a fine dry day .
9	‘ It suits me better than it suits him . ’
10	‘ How can you say it suits me more than it does Dana ?
11	Cat owners are sometimes distressed by the fact that their favourite and much-loved cat leaves them shortly before it dies .
12	The high-pitched kettle may not be audible , but the automatic kettle switches itself off when it boils .

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