Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] it [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " 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 | 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 . |
8 | And to make up for it I 'll treat you to a slap-up lunch in Haverfordwest . ’ |
9 | Probably she 'll be so wrapped up in it she 'll feel differently . ’ |
10 | When you find out about it you could have Dr. Zimmerman lodge a complaint if you want . ’ |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Out of it he could see Barry , his bike propped up against his house , mending his chain . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | I used to listen to other children describing holidays in Bournemouth or Butlin 's or Benidorm , and not wanting to feel out of it I used to invent mine because I had never been anywhere ! |
15 | If you look back at it you will see what a transformation has already taken place . |
16 | Mm but I , I mean I can use it as it is now but anything else on to it I would find it difficult . |
17 | I might have to hold on to it You 'll have to get people to you know . |
18 | Then below it you would have da da , year and somehow the subject fitted in on a line across , below it ? |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |