Example sentences of "it [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people tend to overuse it and/or use it for concepts too complicated for this medium i.e. where a proper report or formal memo or even a meeting would be more appropriate than an e-mail message . |
| 2 | The knowledge that you are yourself , and the world may like it or loathe it , but here you are . |
| 3 | Love it or loathe it , there is no getting away from the fact that , all around the world , people care deeply about their football . |
| 4 | Review by Keith Thompson LIKE it or loathe it , Victorian Music Hall is at the very root of modern British mainstream comedy . |
| 5 | They are no longer prepared to ‘ like it or lump it ’ with publicly delivered services . |
| 6 | ‘ Like it or lump it , ’ the President said , ‘ I accept it , too . ’ |
| 7 | Like it or lump it , the world is slowly turning on to Graphical User Interfaces , whether they be Windows , the Apple Mac 's operating system , or the Next — not forgetting OS/2 v 2.0 , of course . |
| 8 | If they will insist on arriving unexpectedly , they 'll have to like it or lump it , wo n't they ? |
| 9 | I just said leave it or lump it ! |
| 10 | they , told them they can like it or lump it and they said the miner 's strike , but she still won the election after the miner 's strike which |
| 11 | He had hardly left the office when he built this , his first house as an independent architect , but later was embarrassed by it , and said at one point that he never wanted to see it or hear about it again , and that no architect should be allowed to build a house before he was forty . |
| 12 | As Nizan himself pointedly remarked in 1935 , " All reactionary literatures dread reality ; they either avoid it or conceal it . |
| 13 | I 'm I 'm not entirely convinced that we have enough control over the existing county schools , never mind , never mind whether we 'd be able to retain it or increase it . |
| 14 | Do they bring the doubt out into the open to examine it or silence it and pretend it never happened ? |
| 15 | Information gathered by these excursions into adjoining phases is thus fed back into the previous process in order to reinforce the adopted approach , modify it or cause its abandonment . |
| 16 | All you can really do is construct something that will divert it or block its way for a while ; persuade it to do something it does n't really want to do . |
| 17 | Pocklington beck , which played a large part in the 13th and 14th centuries , though no longer used for the running of mills or for carrot washing , is a favourite place for youngsters who paddle in it or catch tiddlers . |
| 18 | But once an instrument is recognised as being an Act of Parliament , no English court can refuse to obey it or question its validity . |
| 19 | It seemed the water of Undersea did n't mingle with it or wash it away . |
| 20 | Watch it or wash it ? |
| 21 | " You 're not asked to like it or dislike it , " she retorted curtly . |
| 22 | Acting alone , the sternal muscles curve the abdomen downwards and the tergals straighten it or bend it upwards . |
| 23 | The Government should index it or come clean and abolish it . |
| 24 | Cruttenden ( 1970 ) argues that intonation is affected by and reflects the grammar of what is said , but does not alter it or contribute to it . |
| 25 | Will I make it or blow it ? |
| 26 | you lose it or put it beneath glass , |
| 27 | The next stage is to implement it or put it into action . |
| 28 | " [ T ] he language of an exemption clause is prima facie to be construed against the person who drafted it or put it forward … [ and ] the language of an exemption clause must be sufficiently explicit to disclose the common intention of the parties without straining the language " ( Cumming-Bruce LJ in Acme Transport Co Ltd v Betts [ 1991 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 131 ) . |
| 29 | Charlotte watch that pen and get it out your mouth now either use it or put the lid on it and put it away . |
| 30 | I think , I bet , I think you could wear it or put a belt round and make it into a it might not be , you can tuck it under , you know , put , like a blouse effect . |