Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 They would n't recognize it if it hit them between the eyes , of its use .
2 to look across at a group wh who would know a cynical opportunity if it hit them in the face .
3 The French were only ready to discuss a common market if it provided them with a high tariff ‘ wall ’ against outsiders and if there were complicated measures to guarantee equality of competition between members .
4 I think it 's unfair to anybody to show up with a tape recorder and ask them on the spot cos it puts them on the spot .
5 Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme .
6 They chose this area because it reminded them of the Alps and afforded them the chance to continue with their much loved skiing .
7 Women who entered voluntary work during the inter-war years did so largely because it provided them with a diversion from household routine .
8 He wrote that it was ‘ not cruel to animals but , rather , indulgent to men … since it absolves them of the suspicion of crime when they eat or kill animals ’ .
9 But to go to the other extreme and elevate people suffering from such abnormalities into a norm for society not only threatens society but is dangerous to the individuals themselves , since it excludes them from the consideration of help and treatment .
10 Well , I 'm basically interested in the way in which education , or formal schooling , has attempted to prepare girls for their lives in the future , whether it prepares them for a life of , say , motherhood and working in the family , or whether it 's encouraging them to do work outside the home and try and achieve in the areas that men traditionally achieve .
11 The flute adds brightness to oboe , clarinet , bassoon , and horn when it doubles them at the octave .
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