Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [adj -er] " in BNC.
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1 | " Nobody could speak it worse ! " |
2 | I realise that , if someone is driving a car , and sitting behind him is a lady with a handbag and a man with fangs , he may feel it wiser to drive in the slow lane . |
3 | but when ya , when you stand at the front door and er there 's a blower breeze and it 's cold , if you put your hand round the door like that , you can feel a draught , you can feel it colder than the you know and the letter box , the draught but if you take that and put a curtain up , it 'll keep the cold out , you 've stopped the draught so you 're gon na win |
4 | Well , I mean sh we could probably do it cheaper , you know |
5 | I do n't see how you can do it cheaper for that . |
6 | Yeah well you see you can make quite a few nice little pounds for yourself if you can say to your friends I can undercut I wo n't chat while you get across here if you can say to your friends I can do it cheaper than the |
7 | I 'm trying to do it thicker , I ca n't do it thicker ! |
8 | ‘ I 'll do it later ’ means ‘ Leave me alone , I ca n't be bothered . ’ |
9 | It 's some once as a customer you can do it later stage . |
10 | If he wanted to act like an uncivilized person-which is what he must be and you could see it clearer all the time-then let him alone . |
11 | Those who miss the lecture can see it later and those who attend the course in years to come can at least have the video lecture even if they ca n't have the real thing . |
12 | You must remember it better than I do . |
13 | He would probably like it softer , but whatever your view of Mrs Pitman , his trainer , as a strategist and communicator , there is no doubt at all of her ability to train Grand National horses . |
14 | but then I 'd I like it fuller and prettier . |
15 | Specialists know all there is to know about the Type 48-x , and can use it better than everyone else , and everyone benefits from their advice . |
16 | Research for the 1974 Press Commission confirmed both that they enjoyed their paper less than readers of the populars and that they would miss it worse if deprived of it . |
17 | The streaking was out of her hair , and she 'd cut it shorter . |
18 | I says well I 'm gon na take it higher . |
19 | Oh have you got , can you have it louder and quieter ? |
20 | So they do n't say you know it , it 's like in York you 'll have it worse than somewhere like here cos we can see the careers officers running around |
21 | Er , has it ever been considered on Health Master , because , s say , for example , Cover Master you can actually split periods , and levels of sum assured , cos you have the selected period where you 'd have it higher . |
22 | At one point you know , there was no point buying wheat from the United States , alright , because although they had a comparative advantage in production , the costs of transportation were prohibitive and in essence we can produce it cheaper over here than the er , the import cost of foreign produced wheat . |
23 | It was the barest whisper and yet he could hear it clearer than all the others for it seemed to make everything else fade away . |
24 | It 's funny talking with your fingers in your ears — you can hear it louder than everyone else can . |
25 | In fact , skin does this by itself , although a gentle exfoliator can leave it smoother and more radiant . |
26 | ‘ Yer ca n't 'ave it simpler than that , can yer ? ’ |
27 | This seems particularly objectionable when pleasures and pains prevented come into account , for one may well think it worse in an action to produce pain than merely to hinder a corresponding amount of pleasure occurring . |
28 | Euro-American society is already suffering from a bad self-esteem problem , and I expect that an uncritical belief in the moral supremacy of nature will make it worse . |
29 | ‘ Do n't make it worse , ’ Rab said . |
30 | If you have fractured a bone or fallen and damaged your back , do not move at all , you could make it worse . |