Example sentences of "[to-vb] it without " in BNC.
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| 1 | The non-smokers dislike the perpetual and pungent cloud , but have grown to accept it without serious complaint — it 's the least of their worries . |
| 2 | For it is now quite certain that Darwin , who gives no credit to Wallace in his Origin of Species , would have been quite unable to write it without his essential contribution . |
| 3 | I managed to absorb it without falling off the chair . |
| 4 | Without a word he would get hold of it with his forceps and proceed to extract it without anaesthetic , exclaiming with great satisfaction , ‘ Via il dente , via il dolore ’ , ‘ Tooth gone , pain gone ’ . |
| 5 | He had no doubt that his mother was in her bedroom and that if she heard him she would come into his room and it would start , he knew it would : the upbraiding of Martin , and he would n't be able to stand it without checking her . |
| 6 | The only organisation which frankly undertook to resist it without qualification , the Catholic Church , merely isolated itself . |
| 7 | And at least he could rely on Freeborn to answer it without initiating a philosophical discussion about the basis of the self . |
| 8 | When the telephone rings , I move to answer it without thinking . |
| 9 | Isambard caught up both , and stood for a moment staring down with a formidable frown at Harry , who nursed his bruised wrists and glared back , expecting a blow and tensing every muscle to receive it without a tremor . |
| 10 | It has leanings toward Gibson 's Melody Maker/Les Paul Special range , but so slight that you would be hard pushed to detect it without laser-optic assistance . |
| 11 | No , the idea is to open it without so much as a nun 's fart . |
| 12 | Rationalization refers to people 's efforts to construct an explanation for their fallibility which allows them to own it without feeling bad about it . |
| 13 | Lord Ackner felt that the route did not cease to be available simply because it was not possible for an unaccompanied child to walk it without danger . |
| 14 | One of the advantages a child has when learning his first language is that he has lots of opportunity to hear it without being called upon to speak . |
| 15 | The system will enable manufacturers of digital compressed video set-top decoders to buy off-the-shelf components implementing copy protection , ‘ securely embedded inside a single integrated circuit ’ so that there is no way to bypass it without screwing up the decoder . |
| 16 | Perhaps if I had allowed myself to be doubtful , I might have understood Mick 's concern about the rules , and his inability to express it without aggressive confrontation . |
| 17 | The question was , how was he to do it without arousing suspicion ? |
| 18 | If so , it would have to do it without Kinnock , and at the risk of alienating Scots and Welsh Unionists who still vote Labour because they think economic and social matters more important than constitutional reform . |
| 19 | And he had to do it without Madonna . |
| 20 | It is one thing to step into the unknown , another to do it without exaggerating the claims for the product , and quite amazing to end our launch year with a turnover that exceeds our most optimistic forecasts by 250% . |
| 21 | And if he managed to do it without her noticing , when they got to the pub his father would be waiting there . |
| 22 | And some people think that this matters : that when it 's wrong to mislead people — which it usually , if not always , is — then it 's not quite as bad if you can manage to do it without actually saying anything you believe to be false . |
| 23 | The so the equations they give you your ability to handle equations means really it would be easier for you to do it without a graph , half the time . |
| 24 | And to do it without a lot without a lot of support from the a from the people who actually lived in the flats , although they organized things and got it going , and the people living there did n't seem to be motivated to give them the kind of encouragement erm |
| 25 | ‘ If you want to play cops and robbers , ’ I said , choosing my words carefully , ‘ you 'll have to do it without me . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Does he have to do it without Choak knowing , sir ? ’ |
| 27 | What I what I 'd really hope for is to be able to do it without having to go to college and just do it by experience but that 's I 'd have to be awful awful good . |
| 28 | ‘ Well it 's deeply wonderful of you to offer this as a convalescent home — but you 've got no right to do it without consulting me and Sue . |
| 29 | And how did she manage to do it without Angy knowing ? |
| 30 | People with valuable secrets ought not to allow subordinate employees … to obtain knowledge of this kind , and if they choose to do it without warning them they will find it very difficult to claim interlocutory relief successfully " . |