Example sentences of "[prep] it [pron] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Her room smells funny , like an old jar with something sticky and brown in it you ca n't tell what it is . ’ |
| 32 | I mean unless somebody 's living in it you ca n't go in the evenings in the winter can you ? |
| 33 | Not only throughout Britain , but in many parts of Europe and in the New World , it was widely accepted that if a person succeeded in erecting a dwelling on common or waste land between sunset and sunrise and lighting a fire in it he could not lawfully be dispossessed . |
| 34 | Cos if Bill knows that I get upset over it he wo n't have any of them there ! |
| 35 | In other words , without it one can not explain why at the present time there is a maldistribution of world wealth and income such that the countries of the Northern hemisphere contain only 25 per cent of the world 's population but obtain 80 per cent of the world 's income , while the countries of the South contain 75 per cent of the world 's population but obtain only 20 per cent of the world 's income . |
| 36 | Without it they would n't exist . |
| 37 | that help without it they would n't . |
| 38 | They are choosing to do this because they have learned that without it they can not sustain their good intentions . |
| 39 | The labelling matters ; without it they can not rebuild the alien 's spaceship . |
| 40 | I really do believe that without it we would n't have got here , without that silly ring I should not be here with you now , Therese , now this moment . |
| 41 | Usually we oh about mid-sixties or in that direction and er without it we would n't have done extra barley . |
| 42 | However , so far as we are concerned the important constituent of the atmosphere is oxygen : without it we would never have come into existence . |
| 43 | Do n't skimp on it , because the experience of great Christians has been that without it we can not grow into Christian maturity . |
| 44 | As the Archbishop of York observed : ‘ they have shown that it [ planning ] should embrace the whole country , and that without it we can not make the best use of the limited space in our small island ’ ( p. 160 ) . |
| 45 | Without it we could not possibly deliver the high quality of service that we do . |
| 46 | Without it we should not have the motive or stimulus to reach our goals or survive some of the situations in which we find ourselves . |
| 47 | Davidson and the General kept hinting that I would be much better off without it , but I was terrified that without it I should never be able to fly again , so refused to let them touch it . |
| 48 | Without it I can not proceed . ’ |
| 49 | Without it he can not attain to full powers either of learning or of teaching in any . |
| 50 | He always needed that : without it he could not feel easy in himself . |
| 51 | But without it she could not pay for her coffee and salad . |
| 52 | to find out from her if it comes to it we can perhaps ask the old lady if she can set something up where |
| 53 | More specifically , the accident resulting from the first incident had only taken place because of a concatenation of events leading to it which could not have been foreseen . |
| 54 | If the registered transferor , A , was not entitled to the shares , what will pass when he transfers to B or C is not , strictly speaking , either a legal or equitable interest but only his imperfect title to it which will not prevail against the true owner . |
| 55 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |
| 56 | However , he knew that if he failed to live up to it they would not take his word again . |
| 57 | She gulped hard , struggling to suppress the impulse to laugh , knowing that if she gave in to it she would not be able to stop . |
| 58 | If he had not drawn her attention to it she would never have noticed the little glass cubicle , tucked away high up under the roof in one corner of the arcade . |
| 59 | She had meant to confide that she , too , was a seduced woman ; yet when it came to it she could n't find the correct words . |
| 60 | But there was a quality to it he would not have expected . |