Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb -s] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Shaker has become fashionable and ‘ Shaker style ’ furniture is appearing all over the place , very little of it bears much relation to the real thing . |
| 2 | Mining coal can rarely compete on world markets and the use of it has such a damaging effect on our environment . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm a free man , and all that you hold dear , you rich men — and beggars too — none of it has any power over me . ’ |
| 4 | Behind Hurd 's selection of a specific group of Arab states is the assumption that the Arab world as a whole can be ignored , since only part of it has any role to play in security in future . |
| 5 | It 's easy to be deceived into thinking none of it makes any sense but it does make sense : a strange , twisted , whimsical , surreal kind of sense . |
| 6 | The view that certain types of fiction occupy a mediatory position between the ‘ reality ’ of a cultural heritage and contemporary ‘ true ’ accounts of it elevates these texts to a status which the novel has not held for quite some time . |
| 7 | and if you look in the blue box , bottom left to begin with it says this chapter looks at the way in which human beings treat animals . |
| 8 | ALTHOUGH set in 1914 , Jennifer Johnston 's ‘ How Many Miles to Babylon ? ’ carries in it notes that still strike a chord today . |
| 9 | jumper over it does that little there that flashes and it get really big . |
| 10 | But if I 'm moving around slightly like this and you 're having to follow with your eyes as I 'm making my presentation it brings variety to it brings that bit of variety like you said earlier that it brings some interest to it . |
| 11 | He chooses to tap his fag packet round and round on the tabletop again rather than speak to me , so I say , ‘ Well , I 'm not sure about that , but it 's certainly somebody who knows me ; I mean , I think that card with my writing on it proves that . |
| 12 | So if you put the Ts back , if you put the tab sign back on it brings all those vitamin Cs , fibres and fats up as well |
| 13 | It also protects the plant in a more general way for it has such a bitter taste and is so poisonous that most animals will not eat the plant . |
| 14 | Nelson 's detailed account is well worth close scrutiny for it illustrates many aspects of socio-ecology most cogently . |
| 15 | At It reveals all — in full colour ! |