Example sentences of "it [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long may it stay just like that . |
| 2 | Would it stay here forever or be freed only when his murderer was brought to justice ? |
| 3 | Could it think perhaps ? |
| 4 | The sudden , unexpected appearance of the bright blue tongue of this skink may startle an approaching predator sufficiently to make it think twice about attacking . |
| 5 | So what how does it compare now would you sa is that kind of erm the other places that you 've lived at you know you 've lived at , Valley and . |
| 6 | If he let it loose here , his chance of becoming chief would vanish . |
| 7 | But does it exist anywhere outside coiled up rolls of decaying celluloid of pre-war films ? |
| 8 | You see , what the angler has to do with his bait is to make it imitate as nearly as possible the conditions of nature . |
| 9 | Arthur remade his day , for he had let it disintegrate stupidly . |
| 10 | What difference can it make now ? ’ |
| 11 | Does it cover just housewives ? |
| 12 | Does he believe that the loans plus grants system covers the full year or does it cover only the terms after the Christmas and Easter vacations and , if so , what does he recommend to students who can not find work during the summer in the present employment conditions and who had to resort last summer to the soup kitchens ? |
| 13 | It might seem appropriate to extend theft in this way in order to make it cover as many ways as possible of getting property dishonestly . |
| 14 | ‘ Will it hurt too much to tell us about him ? ’ |
| 15 | And why should it hurt so much , be so unutterably wearisome , to say goodbye to death , to the dark passion that had consumed her ? |
| 16 | And if that word , if that tiny little word did n't really mean anything , why did it hurt so much that he had n't used it ? |
| 17 | Did it hurt much , I asked . |
| 18 | As a result , it too is banned by many cat societies , who would like to see it disappear altogether . |
| 19 | MAGICIAN Jonathan Pendragon , 37 , was bitten to the bone by a tiger after apparently making it disappear then bringing it back . |
| 20 | The Act which he had just steered through Parliament faced Emanuel with difficult choices : should it remain fully independent and operate outside the State system , or should it be incorporated within the local provision of schooling and become a voluntary-aided school ? |
| 21 | He added : ‘ We have not reached in this country the situation where you are guilty by birth — and long may it remain so . ’ |
| 22 | Long may it remain so . |
| 23 | The traditional bookseller remains the core of the publisher 's business , and long may it remain so . ’ |
| 24 | Long may it remain so . |
| 25 | He tentatively placed a hand on her left breast , and let it remain there , not quite sure what to do next as he tried to make himself slightly more comfortable . |
| 26 | ‘ You poor thing , ’ croons Anya , placing a hand on Rainbow 's cheek and letting it linger there . |
| 27 | Will it survive long into the 1990s ? |
| 28 | Would it seek merely to codify the existing case law or to reform on the existing case law ? |
| 29 | This led to a debate within the company as to whether the role of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was to demonstrate the sort of rooms ‘ Mr and Mrs Average ’ might own , decorated only to those standards to which they could aspire , or should it display exotically luxurious settings , thus attaining an often impossibly high level in taste and quality . |
| 30 | More involved vividly so , so again I think this punctuation is done deliberately to make it merge continuously |