Example sentences of "[adv] and it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The details would be out soon enough and it would look odd if he were too reticent , odd and suspicious . |
| 2 | ‘ Play Cliff long enough and it will see the error of its way and shoot off to church . |
| 3 | The failure of this initiative set the firm back somewhat and it may find it difficult to recover . |
| 4 | She 'll swallow that down nice and gently and it 'll coat her tummy and it will gradually work its way through into the bowel and quieten them down as well . |
| 5 | log book in and it would come back . |
| 6 | Plug it in and it would work ? |
| 7 | And should you be careless enough to get your fingers caught in there , well that would be the end , it would draw you in and it would chop your fingers and your arm off in in half inch er bits you know . |
| 8 | Why on earth eighteen months ago did the district auditor issue a letter saying that unless the council did something about the situation of numbers and of finance within its elderly persons homes then it would come in and it would require the council to take action . |
| 9 | and this section on your L C D flashes and you can like and you can zoom in and it 'll say blah , blah , blah , road works at such and such avoid , or something like that |
| 10 | Well you ought to drink something , it 'll bring your temperature down and it 'll help make you feel better . |
| 11 | Her answer machine er she 's got two answer machines cos she so when the other wo she kept having a lot of trouble with it , kept breaking down and it 'd go away for three weeks and she 'd be without it |
| 12 | So and it can break up a long session it can it can maintain interest . |
| 13 | For example , instead of would confuse the software entirely and it would refuse to co-operate . |
| 14 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 15 | Christmas was a long time away and it would mount up . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ If somebody had known the bloody rules , they could have told us straight away and it would have been no problem at all . |
| 17 | If it 's an insulator it stops heat getting through and it 'll stop electricity getting through as well . |
| 18 | X number of hours then your battery will take over and it will operate |
| 19 | Really she need only make the tongue loll a little and it could grace the pillars of any medieval church . |
| 20 | Now a compression is , pressure on the brain , caused by fracture , bleed or blood clot now if a person has been suffering from concussion and it 's gone unnoticed , that bleed could be just carrying on and on and on and it could take up to four to five days before the compression shows itself so perhaps a week later they 're sitting down to breakfast saying ooh my head hurts , now the poor wife or husband , or whoever it is does n't know about that knock on the head that they had previously , unless somebody 's told them about it mm , so your casualty now is going to have this headache and a beauty , they 're going to be confused their levels of consciousness it will deteriorate face is very hot , dry flushed the pupils will become unequal and because of the pressure breathing becomes noisy if you feel the pulse , it 's going to be slow and strong and you will get paralysis on the opposite side to the compression , what are , what are the signs and symptoms of ? |
| 21 | Speaking to Christian supporters in east Beirut , General Aoun reminded the deputies in Taif that ‘ a war has erupted to liberate Lebanon and it is still on and it will continue until it achieves its goals ’ . |
| 22 | Once food has cooled to 5°C or colder , if any food poisoning bacteria are present most will grow only very slowly and it would take a long time for them to reach large enough numbers to cause a problem . |
| 23 | Well I 'm making arrangements to pay mine er but when I get paid on Friday it were going through , got ta pay him twenty five pounds and then fifteen pounds every fortnight thereafter and it 'll take seven months to pay but that 's all he can get off us . |
| 24 | I mean if could you take the mothballs off and dust it off and it would work ? |
| 25 | Only a fraction harder and it would have made it . |
| 26 | That 's what he called them , and he was worried because something big was coming up and it would get out of control . |
| 27 | But when it when a bill came up and it would take away the money that we 'd saved for Kelly 's new school uniform , so it always seemed to come in a rush and there was always something needed like you know . |
| 28 | TV can pull people up and it can pull them down . |
| 29 | And Hywel will go without a word , and when he is gone and the house is silent Elizabeth will creep to the telephone and she will pick it up and it will ring in another empty house because Dr Wyn has gone to the Fair . |
| 30 | Everything was checked and locked up and it must have gone during the late night or early morning , Thursday night/Friday morning . |