Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [pron] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And throughout the journey , the question asked by that woman in the beginning anchored the emphasis of this book , it shook a fist at the ghosts over my shoulder ( because like most people I give to others the power to intimidate and censor from afar ) and it forced me to make the chronicle accountable to its subjects . |
| 2 | The Serb minority in Kosovo has a monopoly of the local firepower , and it uses it to intimidate the Albanians . |
| 3 | Fans wrote letters to the band enthusing and it prompted them to include the rustic version on the CD , cassette and French version of the single . |
| 4 | For the dealer who did want a good price , the procedure became a matter of negotiation , and it paid him to buy the market-maker a drink sometimes . |
| 5 | However , its benefits were confined to those already holding land , and it did nothing to relieve the problem of landlessness . |
| 6 | Parents love each child , and it grieves them to witness the hitting , hurting and hateful things said to each other . |
| 7 | It makes your holiday look a bit more expensive at first , but it allows you to make the most of your stay . |
| 8 | Freud 's model of the collective evolution of some parts of humanity from archaic responses , found in religions , to more rational and reality-based responses , found in science and technology , may be little more than a description of what has happened , but it enables him to avoid the position of cultural relativism and its logical extension — nihilism . |
| 9 | Power steering is now standard , but it does nothing to blunt the feedback coming from front wheels to steering wheel : the old wrist-snapping kickback over bumps is largely eradicated but the important messages are translated as crisply as ever . |
| 10 | The exploitation of ethnicity may perhaps work as a form of primitive accumulation of cultural capital , but it does nothing to enlarge the audience or scope of such work , which is why most artists and writers of any stature have rejected this appellation , even if they have benefited indirectly from it . |
| 11 | But it did nothing to change the institutional stagnation which had been the result of consensus decision-making . |