Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] it [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And how strange it was that , after all these months of resolutely not thinking about her old life in the States , she should begin to remember it with such pleasure !
2 ‘ I know I wo n't keep doing it at this rate but while I 'm on this streak I 'll take full advantage of it . ’
3 Presumably the library should at least have highlighted it in some way such as printing it in red , on the front of the delivery note , perhaps with a large red hand pointing to it .
4 But could he have heard it from this room ?
5 Since h(n) is not known during the search we can try to estimate it in some way .
6 Mary-Rose Caden , a smoker and teachers ' representative on Lothian education committee , forecast it may be impracticable : ‘ If it 's a complete ban , then they 'll have to police it in some way .
7 King Fahd 's comments , made during a visit to Saudi Arabia by Mubarak , suggested that " if President Saddam were to reconsider the matter seriously he would find that it is in Iraq 's interest , and in his interest personally , and in the interest of the Arab nation that he withdraw from Kuwait " , and that " if something wrong was done , we should not try to redress it by another wrong " .
8 Oh , sure , it 'll take long enough to complete , but another couple of levels — not difficult to program once the initial stage has been coded — would have pushed it into another league entirely .
9 At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage .
10 If she could have wiped his memory as well as her own , she 'd have done it without any hesitation , and at whatever cost .
11 I should never have done it on that day . ’
12 He 'd have bought it at any cost . ’
13 I may have sent it quicker over the goal line with this touch , but I think it would have reached it in any case . ’
14 Once you have completed your design , you must ensure that you cover it with a sheet of glass should you have to leave it at any time .
15 If he could n't get her practice one way , then he would try to get it by another method .
16 My father would have put it in another way : ‘ Zol zey alamin chappen a cholera . ’
17 I thought he must have left it in that place round the point , Halfway House .
18 When she then kills the prey , it is impossible to prove that she does so to demonstrate the act of killing , because she would have killed it in any case , in order to eat it .
19 He obviously had never heard of the Order of Merit or I am quite sure he would have mentioned it at that time .
20 Oh I mean many of them were taken out of a book which had in the front price five and sixpence so a so I think that went very well and er I mean Jack was much encouraged by it so much so that he 's going to actually offer to do it for another organisation that he 's connected with
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