Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] it [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His view finds support in the memoirs of Iakov Solov'ev , one of the major participants in the process of reform , who asserted that " Only the will of the autocrat could have sustained the numerically small and socially ill placed progressive party , which without it could have been destroyed " . |
| 2 | For truly I say to you , if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed , you will say to this mountain , move from here to their at it will move . |
| 3 | Ministers of Health would have incurred little or no extra criticism if they had failed to provide the services which the £25 million yielded by the prescription charges have made possible ; what criticism there was , would have been diffused over a hundred objects and none of it would have made a distinct impression on the mind of the electorate . |
| 4 | B : If you 'd left me as captain , none of it would have happened . |
| 5 | But none of it would have been possible without Cecil 's political influence and contacts , as well as his official revenue . |
| 6 | None of it would have done for the Grail Castle and the gentle remote creature to whose bed Grainne was going . |
| 7 | None of it would have happened if it had n't been for the dog . |
| 8 | If he had not been there , none of it would have happened , but because he was there , she had to retain control . |
| 9 | If you 'd done as I asked and left me alone then none of it would have happened . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ None of it would have happened if I had n't gone chasing after Guy . ’ |
| 11 | None of it will do . |
| 12 | Does the right hon. Gentleman mercifully recognise that none of this will come to pass because , within days of this misguided , ideological order — introduced at the behest of the arch-agent of prejudice sitting beside him , the Minister of State — coming into being , there will be a change of government and none of it will happen ? |
| 13 | None of it will wait . ’ |
| 14 | Whenever Harris talks of his human rights work , he repeatedly states than none of it could continue without Amnesty 's campaigning — the thousands and thousands of letters landing on the desk of the Guatemalan President , the faxes , the questions in Parliament . |
| 15 | The fact that you have thought things through instead of just feeling totally inadequate and that you are trying to do something about it should help you feel more positive . |
| 16 | Everything in it will get ten times bigger wo n't it Right , and this is why the short cut works , because a really clever way of timesing that by ten is to make that number come here , that number come there , this number come here , right , this number come here , and this number come here . |
| 17 | If the terms survive the drafting process the resultant consent order will be not only clear , but specific and any party binding him or herself to it will know precisely what has been accepted and what is the commitment . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've still got one horse , ’ said Crane glumly , ‘ but we might as well eat it for it 'll carry none of us . ’ |
| 19 | But if I pull it off it 'll tear . |
| 20 | and you put the cluster of wool in it and pull it back and it 's like little bobbles of wool and er I 've got a beige and a brown I 've done it with it will look nice you know , it will come right here , it 's a beautiful rug , quite nice , so I 've been busy and I make coat hangers |
| 21 | People who do n't know anything about it might assume that it simply involves standing in front of a camera or walking down a catwalk . |
| 22 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |