Example sentences of "[prep] it [subord] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the question which everyone ought to ask himself , and the only question — are we as a nation in a better position to prosecute the war as a consequence of it than we would have been by any other arrangement ? |
| 2 | The enlightenment derives from the need for commercial success , from the necessary recognition by members that their business can not succeed if they take more out of it than it can stand . |
| 3 | At the end of presentation subjects rated the passage for comprehensibility and then wrote down as much of it as they could remember , as close to verbatim as possible . |
| 4 | What I need to know is his wisdom , and this means wrestling with the truth of it until I can count on it myself . |
| 5 | Do n't walk in front of it cos I shall end up running into you . |
| 6 | When the amendment is carried , it becomes the substantive motion and when it is put to the vote you vote against it since you would prefer to give nothing rather than £15 . |
| 7 | The shadow Health Secretary , Mr Robin Cook , said Labour was fundamentally opposed to the principle of the bill and would vote against it because it would destroy the public sector ethos of the NHS and was designed to do so . |
| 8 | Another thing against it if he 'll get three ca , he 'll have wo , his on the drive and he 'll be able to park two cars on ours . |
| 9 | and you 're calling it for ages but you ca n't go near it cos it will run away and it goes like this to you , it goes |
| 10 | you do n't fill your cup right up with it because it 'll make it too watery in your cup , cos them cappuccinos come very little |
| 11 | It was an old car , but I had a friend who worked in an engineering factory and he fiddled with it till it could go quite fast . |
| 12 | He hung grimly on and wrestled with it until he could lower it in front of them . |
| 13 | She said , ‘ Mr Evans , I 've something to tell you , something important , ’ and then rushed straight into it before he could stop her and say , ‘ Clear out while I 'm eating . ’ |
| 14 | They hurt , sometimes excruciatingly , but on the deepest level of all , it is somehow ‘ all right ’ ; and out of the praise and gratitude and joy that spring from it when we can grasp it , I think that we may give ourselves permission for the more mundane , but wonderfully healing emotion of happiness . |
| 15 | Hm But it 's quite good paper because it 's got all the colours in it so you could put any thing with it ca n't you ? |
| 16 | She did not think she would like herself in it if she could see herself and she did not think she would like to see her face bright and thick with greasepaint . |
| 17 | We 'll let you travel in it if you will tell us all about yourselves , and show us your planet . " |
| 18 | He would have to heave her blood-stained body away from the door and then scramble over it before he could race out and lose himself in the hills . |
| 19 | But you you 're entitled to it so you can claim it any time you want . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've seen my room and I can make my way to it if you 'll draw me a simple map ! ’ |
| 21 | It 's got a very thick safety glass door on it so you can see what the little dears are doing but ca n't hear them . ’ |
| 22 | My parents were not very well off when they bought it , and they had to have quite a lot of work done on it before we could move in . |
| 23 | He bent and twisted himself before it , jerking suddenly this way and that , as if he were lying in wait for disease , determined to pounce on it before it could strike . |
| 24 | ‘ Just give Nether Oldfield a buzz and tell them to close St Benet Church and put a man back on it till we can get down there , ’ he ordered as they drew out of the cathedral close , under the Dersingham arch . |
| 25 | No skimping , and I 'd look kindly on it if you 'd provide her with petticoats . |
| 26 | she did show me that and then she 's got it like straps on it where she can take it off but er oh she |
| 27 | • It 's fine to eat fruit for breakfast , between meals and before a main meal but not during it as it can upset the digestion rate of the other foods you 're eating . |
| 28 | Whereas , if I stopped out here in me own environment , I think I 'd have more of an argument to stay off it because I 'd have worked hard to stop . |
| 29 | Twenty thousand rupees it would cost , but the extension worker said the government would pay for it if they could register a co-operative . |
| 30 | When the mill was finished , a few of them might get work in it ( but the Flemyngs wanted girls for it because they would work more days ) . |