Example sentences of "[prep] it [conj] you [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This definition of your task will determine both the speed at which you read the historical information and the quantity of it that you will need to refer to . |
| 2 | It , really and truthfully , like the Headway do plenty of functions and the rest of it but you can do a better job than Headway . |
| 3 | Erm also the accountant you could 've tried to of got round because you were , you were digging the hole there erm you know where he 's , okay he wants to see the accountant , will this be a good idea I mean you could 've said yeah you know you appreciate that and all the rest of it and you could 've gone more into the tax side of where you , you know , you could 've perhaps er the company could 've benefited by putting some into the pension scheme as opposed erm paying all the taxes maybe you could 've gone in that way . |
| 4 | Eat too much of it and you will end up with pellagra . |
| 5 | Go up Road , and from there turn down Follyhouse Lane the continuation of it and you 'd come right to the Dales and nothing at all from there to West Bromwich , and you could see , if you go over one stile from one field then onto another and then brook that now runs through the Road there , that used to be a little country brook that run across the golf course and there was a little stile over it , a little bridge and a stile , then you go straight up to Dells common and not a house in sight . |
| 6 | When the amendment is carried , it becomes the substantive motion and when it is put to the vote you vote against it since you would prefer to give nothing rather than £15 . |
| 7 | Okay , put it into it and you 'd tie your length of cotton or black thread onto the piece of cotton with a button that 's dangling down and you 'd go across the road into somebody 's front garden behind a wall or behind a hedge and just keep pulling the cotton to tap on the window . |
| 8 | The spray from the falls is so dense that you can not peer into it and you must rely on logic to believe that it is the same water that makes the river that snakes along the gorge a few hundred metres away . |
| 9 | Hm But it 's quite good paper because it 's got all the colours in it so you could put any thing with it ca n't you ? |
| 10 | Well I have no evidence from either of them , you know , er that er they are slamming the door on my initiative , other than the statement that was issued which if you read it , there 's very little in it that you can object to , or that I could object to , which commits them , the two governments to an initiative , and indeed that 's what er the last statement that Mr Adams and I issued asked them to do , the only er they also in in their statements say that my actions have been both courageous and imaginative |
| 11 | The Louvre too , though not cheap , has so much in it that you could spend days there and not see all of it . |
| 12 | It 's got thirty million articles in it and you can find information , pull out articles relevant to your needs by looking for authors , looking for words in the text , and you can look at the summary of the article very quickly . |
| 13 | Erm er it was current well you just sort of sw swam round in it and you could get to the side easily . |
| 14 | We 'll let you travel in it if you will tell us all about yourselves , and show us your planet . " |
| 15 | If you do n't hold the wire on the floor , the tape will wrap itself round it and you 'll have a terrible time trying to disentangle the resulting blob of sticky goo . ) |
| 16 | But you you 're entitled to it so you can claim it any time you want . |
| 17 | You ca n't really dance to it but you can stomp to it . |
| 18 | And even if it has n't , maybe Rohmer can see to it that you 'll spend the rest of your life behind bars along with Jimmy Devlin ? |
| 19 | It 's round , but it has a clarity to it that you might associate with a Telecaster and not with a Les Paul . ’ |
| 20 | Someone had called him this more as an insult than a compliment but Francis took a liking to it and you will find salamanders carved all over his palaces . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've seen my room and I can make my way to it if you 'll draw me a simple map ! ’ |
| 22 | It 's got a very thick safety glass door on it so you can see what the little dears are doing but ca n't hear them . ’ |
| 23 | Explaining that you know you either want further information on it or you would like to erm you know take that one up . |
| 24 | No skimping , and I 'd look kindly on it if you 'd provide her with petticoats . |
| 25 | The footswitch socket is a DIN type , hence the plug is somewhat flimsy — stand on it and you could spend the rest of the gig trying to get it back into shape . |
| 26 | The exam paper 's two hours , there 'll be six questions on it and you will have to do three essays , right ? |
| 27 | If somebody 's saying to you do you want our guarantee — it 's fifty pounds , or it 's a hundred pounds — if you 're spending that sort of money you 'll probably pay out for it and you 'll think you 're covered for all sorts of things that might go wrong . |
| 28 | On the other hand , if there is someone in his past who still has a place in his heart , you do need to know about it before you can deal with it . |
| 29 | I and some others have tried to do something about it because you 'll remember in the last year last two years , we have put in a a sum of money in the budget to increase the allowances for members and for resources to support members . |
| 30 | Think about it and you 'll see that it can not score more than its ‘ opponent ’ in any particular game because it never defects except in retaliation . |