Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [vb infin] it " in BNC.

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1 Even the USA , which in the 1980s still seemed sufficiently vast and dominant to deal with its economic problems without taking any notice of anyone else , at the end of that decade became aware that it ‘ had ceded considerable control over its economy to foreign investors … ( who ) now hold the power to help keep the US economy growing , or to help plunge it into recession ’ ( The Wall Street Journal , December 5 , 1988 , p1 ) .
2 And , further , how does it appear that the testator 's implied request , if it could be implied , or his promise , if that promise alone would suffice , or both together , were intended to cause the marriage , or did cause it , so that the marriage can be said to have taken place at the testator 's request , or , in other words , in consequence of that request ?
3 What I 'd like to introduce lastly now is an approach that you can take to training to help yourselves and to help make it more effective and more systematic and what I 'd like to introduce to you is , is something called the training cycle and the rest of the course is actually based around the training cycle and I know Margaret you 've actually seen the training cycle a few weeks ago , I 'm not sure if , if any of the others are , any of the others familiar ?
4 As a young man he was cursed with a dreadful stammer , and to help combat it he became a club singer , not easy under the best of circumstances .
5 So in 1972 a new secretary was appointed for the task , Anthony Gray , who worked away for some years and helped set it on its feet again .
6 I mean and lets face it you came home from school er I think we used to come home about half past four from school summertime and the first thing you come into the house and you get a great big thick slice of home made bread and jam which your mother had also made , also made .
7 He s got quite a dry sense of humour and was probably ‘ joking ’ about the Norwich match … and lets face it it was a bit of a horror show defensively !
8 We are far less controversial than most of them … and lets face it , anyone who receives mail from the list has to go out of their way to get that mail … unlike fanzines .
9 Speed really wants to play more centrally and lets face it is better making runs into the box , for crosses and knocks-down than he is at beating a full-back and crossing the ball .
10 Leeds are the same team basically but needed a spell out of the limelight : everyone is totally obsessed with Man United now and lets hope it will tell on the scum — we are definitely benefitting .
11 He drank when young and while still young drank a lot , challenging himself to knock off all comers , but most of all to align himself with the legendary drinking miners who could and did sweat it off down the pit while Richard had to force it off in games .
12 Raym. 742 , where before the revolution of 1688 the plaintiff had sentence from James II 's High Commissioners to pay a sum of money to the defendant and did pay it .
13 On 22nd July , Major Wood came to the Wallowa to investigate the killing , and reported Joseph as saying that ‘ the valley was more sacred to him than ever before , and he would and did claim it now as recompense for the life taken . ’
14 I saw that Exhibition , and did find it a great treat to see so far north some of the choice gems of painting from South Kensington .
15 worth pushing for an extra five hundred , and did get it .
16 Angela did see it and did read it .
17 I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true .
18 Alright , what you did n't see , and I 've talked to the man who made the video , and he tells me that in fact — as played in slow motion , it does definitely show that Martin Foyle as the ball was going goalward , got the final touch to the ball and did put it into the net , no doubt that in fact it was Foyle 's goal .
19 His death prompted his mother to launch a high-profile research campaign to isolate the causes of cot death and help prevent it .
20 Sebastian 's death prompted Miss Diamond to launch a high-profile campaign to research the causes of cot death and help prevent it .
21 Finally , it is coated with dark brown wax to seal in the flavour and help keep it fresh .
22 It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ .
23 Beeney just shades it but lets face it , they 're both crap ! !
24 You may divide it into sections , such as in the tables , record it just as it is spoken , or however else you wish , but do record it for later reference and to help you learn .
25 The shock of it surprised the dog , when then bit the farmer ( modestly forbids me to mention where , but do give it some thought ) .
26 " But do bear it patiently .
27 But do make it simple
28 Er er Madam Speaker er non-wage costs never get into employees wage packets but do make it more expensive for employers to provide a job .
29 In fact , research in North America and Europe has shown that many buyers never actually use their own timeshare accommodation themselves but do use it for exchange purposes : this kind of owner normally buys a timeshare unit close to his own main residence .
30 Public NME takes a dim view of types who persecute innocent human beings who just happen to enjoy the feel of women 's lingerie against their bollocks , but did find it quite funny that the be-wigged ‘ bomb victims ’ were so convinced it was an aerial attack they raced into a nearby hotel to beat up a perfectly innocent couple snogging on a balcony .
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