Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're for the child in school ; they 're for the housewife ; they 're for the businessman of the future , and an ordinary competent businessman has the capability and the possibility of actually learning how these devices work and using them , rather than just leaving it to the boffin , the scientist , the computer expert . |
| 2 | But the disparity lies less in tone than in technique : like rather a lot of modern movies , Bye Bye Blues lacks the capacity to formulate its material rather than just present it to the audience and leave them to do the rest . |
| 3 | Tunstall 's main thesis is that the evidence for concentration of ownership is very weak if one charts ownership across all media fields rather than simply restricting it to the press , radio and television . |
| 4 | I am sure you would be amused if you could see me struggling to do such a basic ‘ computer thing ’ as merely use it as a word processor ! |
| 5 | Er can I hang this up and no , so as not to take it into the church ? |
| 6 | The prospect of the moth scam was so exciting we even bought platform tickets so as not to blow it at the development stage . |
| 7 | But if my cousin wants to contemplate the mysteries of the unknown , then he may as well do it in the middle of a Ch'noze snowstorm . ’ |
| 8 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 9 | You may as well put it in the water . |
| 10 | they sent me a cheque for twenty five P and I was going to tear it up I thought well no I might as well put it in the in the bank twenty five P . |
| 11 | Hannah , too , decided that , since she could n't beat 40 , she might as well flaunt it with a party . |