Example sentences of "it [pos pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as I understand it my options are one of the following : |
| 2 | Every time I start to read it my spirits sink . |
| 3 | But while I am looking at it my eyes constantly wander from one flower to the next , pausing at some , ignoring others , picking out the details of their shapes and colours . |
| 4 | They gave it their photograph albums they gave it their records |
| 5 | competition from the new commodity , the new technology , the new source of supply , the new type of organization … competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms ( and possibly even entire national economies ) but it their foundations and their very lives . |
| 6 | As he took it their fingers met , invoking so vivid a memory of the few seconds she had spent in his arms that she jerked away , spilling coffee into the saucer . |
| 7 | So again Warwickshire desperately had to win was slipping away , and with it their chances of the championship . |
| 8 | It just says do n't water if the plants look healthy do n't water them , we overdo the watering and it their roots then start growing upwards towards the soil . |
| 9 | See the tailors , shoemakers , bookbinders , gold beaters , printers , bricklayers , coatmakers , hatters , curriers , masons , whitesmiths , none of these trades receive less than 30s a week , and from that to five guineas this is all done by combination , without it their trades would be as bad as yours . |
| 10 | They gave it their calendars it bolted their diaries |
| 11 | The events have , to conclude , all the trappings of a liturgical ceremony rather than a military exercise , and that is almost certainly what lies behind the story , and what gave it its origins . |
| 12 | In the case of the UK these figures are supported by surveys such as that carried out by the Inner London Education Authority which showed that over 22% of the children it its schools spoke a language other than , or in addition to , English at home . |
| 13 | Wearing the collar , Aunt Margaret had to carry her head high and haughty as the Queen of Assyria , but above it her eyes were anxious and sad and not proud at all . |
| 14 | Above it her eyes glittered . |
| 15 | We are made to share his view , and with it his plans and hopes to gain at the expense of good . |
| 16 | Reading that line , and adding to it his memories of Finn and Fróda , of Beowulf and Hróthgár and the other pagan heroes from the darkness before the English dawn , Tolkien may have felt that Milton was more accurate than he knew . |
| 17 | I suppose if you think about it his parents probably think it 's probably good to get him out of London and get him doing something . |
| 18 | No , he replied , and before he knew it his hosts , oblivious of his religious upbringing , had offered this sacrament to him . |
| 19 | As Nicholson headed towards it his shoes beat out a tattoo on the polished floor . |
| 20 | They applied for judicial review of the Secretary of State 's decisions and sought orders of certiorari to quash those decisions and declarations that the Secretary of State could not set a period for retribution and deterrence for a mandatory life sentence greater than that recommended by the judiciary , that he was required to tell the applicants the period recommended by the judiciary , and if he departed from it his reasons for so doing , and that the applicants were entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before he determined the period and for that purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State would act which was not in the applicant 's possession . |
| 21 | Before she could withdraw it his teeth had closed lightly , trapping it there , while his tongue played over the sensitive tip . |
| 22 | Night had fallen and with it his defences . |
| 23 | So Schuler accepted it , knowing that by the end of it his prospects of regaining an All Black place might have disappeared . |
| 24 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 25 | Strange light , or was it his eyes ? |
| 26 | When she stole a glance to see how Marc was taking it his lips were white . |
| 27 | ‘ Is it your knees again ? ’ |
| 28 | But by the sound of it your brothers are a hale and hearty pair . |
| 29 | This is one machine that will quite easily fight its way to the top of the £300 pile ; lend it your ears . |
| 30 | Or is it your children who are setting the ecological pace ? |