Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pron] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if you heard it in different circumstances , su , you know , surrounded by Chinese people , then maybe you would begin to recognise it . |
| 2 | So James had good reason not to trust a local market in tobacco , and to believe that he would do better if he kept it as a commodity to be imported and to pay duty accordingly , mainly at London and Bristol . |
| 3 | It probably did n't matter much if you did it in front of your friends . |
| 4 | Only if you want it to . |
| 5 | ‘ Only if I wore it on my head . ’ |
| 6 | A lot I think cos this this bit 's a quarter is n't it and we 'd get that 'd be enough if we cut it into quarters how many quarters would we get ? |
| 7 | ‘ So if we rebuilt it in a more palatial style we could make a real killing when we sold it . |
| 8 | So if you need it in a hurry it can be a problem . |
| 9 | So if you want it to beco to be a third you 've still got to make it an E and call it a double flat . |
| 10 | So if you multiply it by six and it 's still raised to the power . |
| 11 | ‘ Perfectly correct , but the thing stores energy as well as transmitting it , so if he gets it to where he 's going , we 're in serious trouble . ’ |
| 12 | No , no the shop could use it then as a as a loss leader he could make say , a penny on it an ge so if he buys it at , you 're buying what , thirty five ? |
| 13 | Yeah in the the number on the bottom is bigger but that just means you 've got to share it out between more people so do you get more or less if you share it between more people ? |
| 14 | especially if we take it into German tomorrow |
| 15 | Anyway I think it might be a giggle , especially if we keep it to ourselves . |
| 16 | Well especially if you put it in your high interest . |
| 17 | Quoting extensively from a textbook in a PhD thesis , for example ( especially if you treat it as an authority rather than as something for critical comment ) is likely to give the wrong impression : that you are a beginner rather than an expert in your subject . |
| 18 | It may be apposite to consider that a corporate stand on under-fives and special needs is now a moral imperative and that we should take seriously the clarion calls of Warnock and the Select Committee , not only because we owe it to children and their families , but also because |
| 19 | They do n't , once they 're empty they do n't take long till they sell it over there and there |
| 20 | But that was only after we had it for about thirty years or , or more . |
| 21 | The Intifada was perhaps the most convincing refutation ever of the time- honoured , complacent dogma that ‘ the status quo can last as long as we want it to . ’ |
| 22 | If the relatives are able to go to the mortuary or viewing room and be with the person who has died for as long as they feel it to be necessary , then they are more able to start absorbing the fact of their loved one 's death , because again they have the evidence in front of them . |
| 23 | ‘ There are a hundred ways a firm can get rid of pollution into the river , ’ said an experienced officer , ‘ so long as they do it at the right time . ’ |
| 24 | I do n't have fancy feelings about where money comes from , so long as I earn it in ways which fit in with my flexible principles . |
| 25 | Such a government , Lawrence asserted , ‘ would be child 's play for a decent man to run , so long as he ran it like Cromer 's Egypt , not like the Egypt of the Protectorate . |
| 26 | Lancashire men like women with a bit of fight in them , especially when they direct it at each other . |
| 27 | A surprise attack is a superb card to have up your sleeve , especially when you combine it with a mind-numbing yell and a distracting dummy movement . |
| 28 | He thought it gave him a rakish daring look , especially when he wore it at an angle with his loud checked jacket and green tie . |
| 29 | Right so you do it on other side and then work out what that comes to , so why did you multiply that side by a hundred ? |
| 30 | Rather than you selling it to the boss and then all the trouble . |