Example sentences of "it they " in BNC.
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| 1 | In it they asserted quite clearly that permitting divorce would certainly affect the stability of all Irish marriages because it rendered every Irish marriage dissoluble : ‘ It is as though the legal availability of divorce builds up a social pressure which , for large numbers of people , becomes stronger than moral or religious resistance ’ ( abridged version , Irish Times , 14 May 1986 ) . |
| 2 | Because of it they simply could not plunder on ahead without thinking . |
| 3 | Mailer apparently concurs with the belief he attributes to Lawrence , that ‘ men and women can survive only it they reach the depths of their own sex down within themselves ’ ( p. 147 ) . |
| 4 | If they found out … if they found out , Phoebe and Rachel would tear each other apart , and her with them ; it they found out , Fenna would be lethally furious . |
| 5 | Trade unions , it they are involved at all , are not meant to be militant . |
| 6 | The Soviet War Memorial is one of only two places Where the Russian military have representation in the West , and in order to maintain it they employ soldiers who cross the Wall from their barracks in East Berlin . |
| 7 | If we all do it they 'll have to take the train on ! ’ and 60 fellow travellers rebelled in agreement , using seat cushions to prevent the doors from being closed . |
| 8 | Simon thought it sensible and practical ‘ which is more than can be said for most of their gimmicks , but ’ he warned her , ‘ if they like it they 'll take it over as their own . |
| 9 | From now on the locals would do what they were told to do by Detroit , and if they did n't like it they could take the option of either getting out of their own free will , or being booted out . |
| 10 | What was it they said about people who were convinced that the rest of the world was plotting against them ? |
| 11 | When they see it they 'll stop any development , ’ Nigel said , turning some knuckle-bones over in his hands . |
| 12 | On the face of it they were an utter failure . |
| 13 | So I said , well , I have my thing here in Salzburg ; if they want to see it they must make the effort to come here . |
| 14 | And make it they did , daughter Suzette succeeding as an actress and eldest son Noel carving out a career as a top TV cameraman . |
| 15 | All of which you will be tired of hearing but it has been brought about by my great fear that my husband will be taken off by the Brownings once more , this time to France and there is nothing we can do to prevent it they being the masters of our fate . |
| 16 | As they do it they make a wish , presumably for children . |
| 17 | And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child . |
| 18 | On the face of it they may appear to do little more than give effect to the government 's consistent promise to maximise the opportunities for parental choice in the education system . |
| 19 | On this particular day , they had been shooting at Taos and at the end of it they dropped some acid and took off with two other friends to visit the nearby tomb of D.H . |
| 20 | For it was from its icy blue waters that the first Sun Emperor Manco Capac and his sister-wife emerged — one legend has it they came from the Island of the Sun , now in Bolivian waters . |
| 21 | Without it they would n't exist . |
| 22 | They are choosing to do this because they have learned that without it they can not sustain their good intentions . |
| 23 | What was it they wanted from me ? |
| 24 | Moments and impressions from this great desert of time remain with me but I have long forgotten in which part of it they occurred . |
| 25 | Most of it they have left as moorland on which they keep sheep . |
| 26 | ‘ You see , two centuries ago they had electricity — but in order to make it they had to burn non-renewable resources and endanger people with fission systems . |
| 27 | Rather apprehensively I let the other girls use it , on the strict understanding that when they had finished with it they unplugged it and stowed it away somewhere out of sight of our two gauleiters , hopefully after it had cooled down a bit . |
| 28 | These males are still in their bright nuptial plumage and as long as they retain it they maintain the high levels of vigilance observed when accompanying their females . |
| 29 | This is because at first they lack the strength to hurt , and when they do acquire it they quickly learn that a too-powerful play-attack ends the enjoyable encounter . |
| 30 | If anyone is going to break it they are going to have to be better than me over the first fifty metres , so it 's going to be difficult . |