Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb mod] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ I would go myself if I thought it would serve any purpose to be killed before a blow had been struck . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought it might take some while for the outside world to learn of . |
| 6 | I mean , we thought it 'd rain this year so it 's more |
| 7 | ‘ I thought it 'd last another year , but wi ’ the rain this summer I shall have to get it fixed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They said it would create more traffic and be dangerous for children and old people . |
| 11 | 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 . |