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 Meanings and Examples of IT
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it
 pron.  used as subject or object of a verb or object of a preposition usually in reference to a lifeless thing
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper
2  But it was too late to be careful.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  I only drove over it in the dark.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  I don't know how it's happened.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  "I want to forget it," he said at last.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  How she's done it there's no telling.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  And yet it's not impudence, either.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  That's really just what it feels like.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
9  One knows it then for a moment or so.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
10  I want to be standing when it goes.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  Something pushes it up and draws it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  Every few yards it stopped to rest.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  "They sing it i church," he said.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  And it doesn't sound ill at all.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  He did not know that it could be kept.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The UN declared it a safe area.
17  When guns speak it is too late to argue.
18  Intuition told her it was unwise to argue.
19  I'm too tired to argue it out with you now.
20  A friend is, as it were, a second self.
21  As the tree falls, so shall it lie.
22  I can only assume that it was a mistake.
23  According to Mick, it's a great movie.
24  Don't walk across that field, it's a bog.
25  I can easily finish it tonight.
26  Put some tins on top to weight it down.
27  I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.
28  You're just going to have to tough it out.
29  The track widened as it met the road.
30  God will pardon me, it is his trade.