Example sentences of "[prep] it [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void |
| 2 | So you 'll get a big erm warehouse erm which may be typically erm computer controlled , retrieval systems , storage , inventory , stock control and all the rest of it which will employ a certain number of people . |
| 3 | When Alice told her a little of how she felt ( some of it she could tell no one ) , and how she was angry with God as well as Belle Maman , Aunt Violet said God would understand : ‘ He is All Wise , Alice . |
| 4 | On the assumption that , you know , you 'd buy the cheap one , might and when you want to get rid of it I 'll buy the dear one . |
| 5 | there does n't seem to be any sense to it really but you can try and make a bit of sense out of some of it not all of it but some of it you can make a bit of sense out of it yes . |
| 6 | The countryside we drove through was beautiful , but behind it we could see the long , dark , frightening hills of the moor . |
| 7 | It was white now , and behind it you could see the shape . |
| 8 | With it he could express the body , the mass and density of things . |
| 9 | This whole process appears long-winded and complicated but once you are familiar with it you can employ the strategy very quickly . |
| 10 | The foreman 's office was partitioned off from the shop floor and from it one could see the men at work on the machines — five or six of them — but part of the floor was screened off by large canvas sheets suspended from the roof trusses . |
| 11 | In it one can trace the origin and development of social , political , and philosophical ideas , as well as of taste , fashion , and outlook . |
| 12 | Framed in it they could see a letter . |
| 13 | Beyond it he could see the bright flag of a bus stop and the — bus shelter . |
| 14 | I 'm glad you said that cos if too many people said they would have gone on started business without it they might drop the scheme . |
| 15 | ‘ Without it you will have no dances and no Great Moments with the young thing in crepe-marocain on the lee of the starboard ventilator . ’ |
| 16 | The strong wind stance described earlier is the basis of the funboard stance , but to it we can add a further ingredient — the hips and bottom . |
| 17 | It should also check whether there are any special restrictions binding on it which would prevent the buy-back ( eg in loan or security documents ) . |
| 18 | Mr before we can ask for a seconder on it I 'd ask the clerk to make a de definition about expenditure that has not necessarily been costed beforehand . |
| 19 | you get a bit of paint on it I 'd have a job to get it off so I take them off , then put them on just as it 's going off , you know , so you got ta |
| 20 | Printed on it you 'll see a space for the date of birth already filled in and also a space for the date of death , not yet filled in . |
| 21 | ‘ I wish I could go myself but if she complains and London hears about it they 'll put a stop on me doing anything . |
| 22 | Talk about giving the game away ! if these people did n't make it so obvious that they 'd pissed their lives away with drink and were n't prepared to do anything about it they 'd get a bit more sympathy . |
| 23 | Talk about giving the game away ! if these people did n't make it so obvious that they 'd pissed their lives away with drink and were n't prepared to do anything about it they 'd get a bit more sympathy . |
| 24 | My view is and it 's a widely held view within the association and , and the informed clubs is that if we let that situation go on and do nothing about it we will have a decreasing er number of people going and number of people going sailing . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sure if you thought hard enough about it you 'd know the reason for that , Seb . |
| 26 | Through it we can challenge the status quo , raise the possibility of social change , imagine things that have never existed before , social arrangements that have never been tried . |
| 27 | At first sight it is unremarkable ; a simple Formica-clad cube , but as one draws closer it can be seen that the top face is transparent and through it one can view the tracks in the cloud chamber — the long thin lines due to cosmic rays and the short stubby ones due to alpha particles . |
| 28 | Through it she could feel the steady rhythm of his heart-beat , only now it held a threat : the fragility of life . |
| 29 | They 'd reached a dramatic opening , and through it she could see the moon-silvered sea hundreds of feet below , moving in a slow , deep swell towards the foot of the cliffs . |
| 30 | He put his telescope to his eye , and through it he could see the shapes of ten dogs pulling a sledge over the ice . |