Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb mod] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 2 | Faced with such rhapsodic prose I felt it would take more subtlety and sagacity than I could command to make obscurity flee before me . |
| 3 | I knew it would take some time , so I asked my uncle to tell mother I would n't be home for a meal . |
| 4 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 5 | ‘ I would go myself if I thought it would serve any purpose to be killed before a blow had been struck . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought it might take some while for the outside world to learn of . |
| 7 | I mean , we thought it 'd rain this year so it 's more |
| 8 | ‘ I thought it 'd last another year , but wi ’ the rain this summer I shall have to get it fixed . |
| 9 | Mrs Thatcher insisted it would make more sense to wait and see how it worked out in practice before preparing moves to the more controversial second and third stages of EMU — including a central bank and a single currency . |
| 10 | Council leader John Williams said he fully supported the scheme and hoped it would attract more tourists to the area . |
| 11 | A governing party is apt to claim that it has a mandate for doing something which it said it would do in its election manifesto , or which it simply said it would do some time before being elected . |
| 12 | They said it would create more traffic and be dangerous for children and old people . |
| 13 | While some local authorities welcomed part of the proposals , critics said it would create more losers than winners . |
| 14 | He said it would take some time to redress the imbalance in spending on black and white children when five times as much is still spent on each white child as on each black child . |
| 15 | It said it may discuss such transactions , which would not involve a change in control , with the management . |