Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] it [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your companion might not have made it at all . ’ |
| 2 | The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days . |
| 3 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 4 | In a way , the most important word in the whole of that speech is probably ‘ nature ’ — ‘ I feel the link of nature draw me ’ because here now Adam is using the word nature as , I suppose , he would not have used it at any earlier point in the poem . |
| 5 | I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions . |
| 6 | On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ . |
| 7 | Orwell would not have put it like that . |
| 8 | While a splendid Gris , the 1912 gouache-pastel-charcoal ‘ Nature morte avec bouteille et cigares ’ ( est. $300,000–400,000 ) inexplicably sold under-estimate for $280,000 ( £155,600 ) the work 's severity may not have endeared it to many people the biggest surprise was the prices paid for the Legers , which came from all points of the artist 's career . |
| 9 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 10 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 11 | She says she just could n't have made it through those times without the support of her actor boyfriend , Robert Lugan . |
| 12 | He would n't have done it for most people . |
| 13 | This fact was discovered by Gregor Mendel in the last century , although he would n't have put it like that . |
| 14 | You would n't have expected it at all . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I should never have done it on that day . ’ |
| 17 | He would never have put it like that himself . |
| 18 | Friendship with a man was nice , she decided , never having experienced it before this . |