Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb infin] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Will I do it on the other side ? |
2 | Can I take it towards the wrong one ? |
3 | May I illustrate it with a true instance of what one industrialist did , who took this challenge seriously . |
4 | Eva could be snobby , that was obvious , but if I saw something , or heard a piece of music , or visited a place , I would n't be content until Eva had made me see it in a certain way . |
5 | So , what , what word do you make it into an open question ? |
6 | ‘ Would you know it from a real Poussin ? ’ |
7 | And are you confident when you give a weather forecast that the chances are that it 's going to be correct , or do you do it with a slight feeling of uneasiness ? |
8 | Why ca n't you do it in the front room then ? |
9 | Do you see it as a brave thing to do ? |
10 | Would you use it as an everyday mode of transport ? |
11 | I says to her , I do n't know how long it 's gon na be int garage , I says , so she says , well can you change it to a different day then ? |
12 | Nor on present evidence can you leave it to the internecine politics of the county councils around London , with occasional injections of national politics . |
13 | Would you write it like an actual , can you fit it in a diary or have you got to write it , the date , just , just like a proper diary ? |
14 | Do you combine it with the weekly ‘ big shop ’ at Sainsbury 's , wait until you fall ill or hang on for the January sales ? |
15 | And do we do it within the financial |
16 | Can we play it on the big one ? |
17 | Could we postpone it until the following week ? |
18 | Pagan Greek literature does not have the phrase at all , and only twice do we find it in the Old Testament . |
19 | If the Government can do it for the Bosnians , why ca n't they do it for the homeless ? |
20 | They can provide all that for a fee why ca n't they provide it as a compulsory necessary part er of the service , it would n't be more expensive the minister claimed , if you do a proper audit it ca n't be more expensive . |
21 | Why ca n't they take it through the back door and up the stair ? |
22 | Do they hold it in an unusual position-to the side rather than full-square to the eyes ? |
23 | ‘ Johnny rang me and he said my photograph was awfully good and could he use it for the front cover of Backward Glances , ’ Mr Winner tells me . |
24 | I thought to myself well why the devil does n't he put it over the other side . |
25 | Please help us preserve it for the future generations . |
26 | But I flatter myself that I can meet this danger more calmly and securely than most philologists ; my philosophical seriousness is already too deeply rooted , the true and essential problems of life and thought have been too clearly shown to me by the great mystagogue Schopenhauer … " ( 1869 ) ; " I love the Greeks more and more … [ but ] … the philologist 's existence … seems to me more and more anomalous " ( 1870 ) ; " For me , everything that is best and most beautiful is associated with the names Schopenhauer and Wagner , and I am proud and happy to share this feeling with my closest friends " ( 1870 again ) ; and from the close of the same year , " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years ; let us take it as a sorrowful lesson … I realize what Schopenhauer 's doctrine of university wisdom is all about … |