Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] it [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I 've got to say that it 's somebody that 's got a personal project that has done it in one force ai n't it . |
| 2 | So can you er look at it in that light and you will see of course that and I can understand why Mr has done it in this way , he has actually broken down er his the approach to this to looking at this criterion , under the three heads , road , rail and bus . |
| 3 | I 've scoured the the technical professional press to find out if there is some general statement which sums up what sustainability means , and the one which I 've seen most commonly referred to , I think , and the government has used it in this way , is a requirement to ensure the needs of the present generation are met in a way which does not prejudice future generations , now I do not believe that a properly conceived and located new settlement is any less sustainable in the long term that other forms of urban growth , and by properly conceived I 've got to say I believe that to mean properly balanced er form of development for the new settlement , and I think I would say that new settlements have usually been proposed because continued infilling , like the the normal forms of accommodating further development requirements , infill , and peripheral development , have been determined in York context not to be sustainable , the sorts of issues which arise as a result erm of additional development in or on the edge of York and the surrounding villages , problems of additional congestion , loss of green space in towns , loss of employment opportunities and so on . |
| 4 | Most of the money for the campaign has come from the central government and the United Nations , but it seems to be Marxist enthusiasm that has put it to good use . |
| 5 | Her family 's history , although nobody has recorded it in such detail , seems to have been almost as adventurous as that of the Crankos . |
| 6 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 7 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 8 | As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink . |
| 9 | Well yeah but , cos I mean I 'd left it on all night before . |
| 10 | She 'd chosen it for that reason — and because it was the colour of wine . |
| 11 | Presumably the library should at least have highlighted it in some way such as printing it in red , on the front of the delivery note , perhaps with a large red hand pointing to it . |
| 12 | But could he have heard it from this room ? |
| 13 | Oh , sure , it 'll take long enough to complete , but another couple of levels — not difficult to program once the initial stage has been coded — would have pushed it into another league entirely . |
| 14 | I 'd have done it with minimalist technology ; say , beans swelling in water and lifting a diaphragm and bare wire to a contact for the time-fuse . |
| 15 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 16 | If she could have wiped his memory as well as her own , she 'd have done it without any hesitation , and at whatever cost . |
| 17 | I should never have done it on that day . ’ |
| 18 | Burton did the job on screen as efficiently , one felt , as he would have done it in real life . |
| 19 | He would have seen it as infantile behaviour . |
| 20 | He 'd have bought it at any cost . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It will be a bit of a wrench , but the England team manager 's job is the top one in the business and if I had n't accepted it , I might have regretted it in later life . ’ |
| 22 | I may have sent it quicker over the goal line with this touch , but I think it would have reached it in any case . ’ |
| 23 | I have great admiration for all those involved in the Academy of Culinary Arts and think it a fine , courageous and important creation , but can someone explain how a meal of such ineptitude can be served in its name , and how some of the best chefs and restaurateurs in the world can have eaten it without public comment ? |
| 24 | Sometimes genuine letters are offered without the vital signature , some rabid autograph hunter having removed it at some period . |
| 25 | My father would have put it in another way : ‘ Zol zey alamin chappen a cholera . ’ |
| 26 | Some women would have taken it in good humour . ’ |
| 27 | It was a sensible decision and he may have taken it in full awareness of this . |
| 28 | I thought he must have left it in that place round the point , Halfway House . |
| 29 | When she then kills the prey , it is impossible to prove that she does so to demonstrate the act of killing , because she would have killed it in any case , in order to eat it . |
| 30 | He obviously had never heard of the Order of Merit or I am quite sure he would have mentioned it at that time . |