Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before he got a good grip he went , he got a grip and he was just about to squeeze this , I went I sort of went of tiptoes and I goes , I 'll let it slide this time . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll let it go this time Gatesey , but one of these days I shall have to give you what I should have given you when we were kids . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ All right , Michael , I 'll let it go this time . |
| 4 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |
| 5 | The gardener wo n't like it , but I 'll say it has some kind of disease — ’ |
| 6 | I 'd like it to stay that way , do you hear ? |
| 7 | This photograph , this swipe of grain , so briefly glimpsed : I could tell it contained extraordinary information . |
| 8 | Other measures would involve more combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations , which , instead of discharging into the atmosphere the 60–70 per cent of the primary energy input which ends up as waste heat , would use it to provide hot water and heating in homes and commercial and industrial buildings ; and , of course , a switch from coal — which produces more carbon dioxide per ton than any other fuel — to nuclear , gas , oil and ‘ renewables ’ such as windfalls and tidal barrages . |
| 9 | North Korea was also believed to be constructing a nuclear reprocessing plant which would enable it to extract unused plutonium and uranium by-products from spent nuclear fuel rods . |
| 10 | At the summit meeting last month between Bill Clinton and Japan 's prime minister , Kiichi Miyazawa , America insisted that Japan should come up with specific measures that would enable it to meet new import targets . |
| 11 | And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values . |
| 12 | This is a bold manifesto and the APB will expect it to receive careful criticism from all interested parties . |
| 13 | The company believes the strength of its Rosemary brand , plus the ‘ state-of-the-art ’ technology installed at its new Bedworth plant , will enable it to achieve this aim . |
| 14 | If a horse is left unfed one day , it will feel the physical stress of lack of food and be hungry and lose condition , and it will also suffer anxiety caused by the hunger which will cause it to lose additional weight . |
| 15 | We will teach it to have all beauty , we will teach it that love is the most beautiful thing , and never need wax cold , as years go by . |
| 16 | Every aspect of the trip is analysed to see Where we went wrong and how we can prevent it happening next time . |
| 17 | You can shape it using traditional hand tools such as rasps and spokeshaves . |
| 18 | I can see it snaking this way and that through Laverne 's flapping fringe . |
| 19 | Pond 's can help it feel that way . |