Example sentences of "and it [vb -s] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The soft crust thinks the rotten so-called adult world shops at Next , and it takes itself too seriously ( like any sullen delinquent ) to explore the groovy games of style , experiment and enterprise played by the ‘ kids ’ . |
| 2 | Recruitment to its ranks is highly selective in terms of social and educational status , and it perpetuates itself by spending parts of its accumulated surpluses on privileged education , often abroad , for its favoured sons ( and occasionally daughters ) . |
| 3 | than a typical marker and it lends itself to softer and more characterful styles . |
| 4 | And and it lends itself to interpretive kind of approach rather than a politics sort of approach which tends to be . |
| 5 | A rite is part of the culture the individual is born into , and it imposes itself on him from the outside like the rest of his culture . |
| 6 | Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways . |
| 7 | RICHARD : Well , it 's a seed from the fig family , a strangler fig , and it attaches itself … |
| 8 | The difference is essentially one of the spirit and it manifests itself in the habits and attitudes of country folk . |
| 9 | Its role is to oversee the general academic running of the subject in Oxford , and it concerns itself , for example , with the lecture course and examinations . |
| 10 | The Association has ever since this Congress played a prominent part in the affairs of the international deaf community through its membership of the World Federation , and it has itself greatly benefited from its international links . |