Example sentences of "without it [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 Without it they would n't exist .
2 Their digging has cleared right down to the gravel tidy — without it they would have rendered the undergravel filter quite useless .
3 that help without it they would n't .
4 I 'm glad you said that cos if too many people said they would have gone on started business without it they might drop the scheme .
5 Without it they might have driven past the track and searched on fruitlessly .
6 They are choosing to do this because they have learned that without it they can not sustain their good intentions .
7 The labelling matters ; without it they can not rebuild the alien 's spaceship .
8 However , so far as we are concerned the important constituent of the atmosphere is oxygen : without it we would never have come into existence .
9 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 .
10 Usually we oh about mid-sixties or in that direction and er without it we would n't have done extra barley .
11 Say without it we 'd all end up dead
12 Do n't skimp on it , because the experience of great Christians has been that without it we can not grow into Christian maturity .
13 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 ) .
14 Without it we could not possibly deliver the high quality of service that we do .
15 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 .
16 But this is one candle you can not possibly afford to extinguish in your life , for without it you may lose much of the valuable to-and-fro of friendship , which can protect you from isolation , and act as a safety-valve when you are under strain .
17 Without it you 'd … you might have … you 'd have taken far longer to get well . ’
18 Without it you 'd be just another beautiful , exotic woman , magazine-cover material , for look ing at .
19 Without it you will have no dances and no Great Moments with the young thing in crepe-marocain on the lee of the starboard ventilator . ’
20 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 .
21 Without it I should have been hopelessly lost .
22 Without it I can not proceed . ’
23 ‘ I can also pick up music — without it I 'd go absolutely berserk . ’
24 Without it he can not attain to full powers either of learning or of teaching in any .
25 He always needed that : without it he could not feel easy in himself .
26 But without it she could not pay for her coffee and salad .
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