Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] it [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sure if you thought hard enough about it you 'd know the reason for that , Seb . |
| 2 | Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM . |
| 3 | It should be a close race on paper , but when it comes down to it we 'll see what happens . |
| 4 | But I have to say that they 've been the major percent of them er we think if only they would knuckle down to it they would do it . |
| 5 | ‘ And if he 's thinking he 'll be getting away with it he can think again ! |
| 6 | But if he thought he could get away with it he could think again ! |
| 7 | There must surely be somebody already in it who could do it . |
| 8 | Tomorrow she really must settle down to serious work on her novel ; time was slipping past , her deadline was approaching and if she did n't get on with it she 'd have Joe making agitated phone calls and coming down to visit . |
| 9 | And to make up for it I 'll treat you to a slap-up lunch in Haverfordwest . ’ |
| 10 | Probably she 'll be so wrapped up in it she 'll feel differently . ’ |
| 11 | When you find out about it you could have Dr. Zimmerman lodge a complaint if you want . ’ |
| 12 | That caveat notwithstanding , those close to Mr Bush insist that there was an effort to get a non-military solution , and that if Saddam Hussein had reached out for it he could have walked away from Kuwait with something gained from his adventure . |
| 13 | She agreed with Gilbert that the souls of the dead are in the hand of God and , as for herself , she was persuaded that there is nothing in this world or out of it which can separate us from the love of God . |
| 14 | Out of it he could see Barry , his bike propped up against his house , mending his chain . |
| 15 | You have been doing the right thing by cutting out the dead wood you found in spring , but these plants do get very straggly , and to get the best out of it you will need to be a bit more ruthless . |
| 16 | If you look back at it you will see what a transformation has already taken place . |
| 17 | Mm but I , I mean I can use it as it is now but anything else on to it I would find it difficult . |
| 18 | I might have to hold on to it You 'll have to get people to you know . |
| 19 | Then below it you would have da da , year and somehow the subject fitted in on a line across , below it ? |
| 20 | The vast volume of writing on environment in the past five years has produced a cloud of obfuscation , but here and there among it one can learn from one 's scientific and political neighbours . |
| 21 | There was never my my view and and one day I shall if I ever get round to it I might set this all out . |
| 22 | He must have felt it and he must have suffered afterwards from it I would imagine , but he had , he had those qualifications , he had those abilities and he used them for a . |