Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm yeah and apart from that the bloke that sold it must have known cos he |
| 2 | One exception , imaginatively titled ‘ Gulf War : The Board Game ’ , comes from a Malaysian company that discovered it could change an America v Russia contest into a Gulf version without rewriting any of the rules . |
| 3 | Nothing that preceded it could have prepared its audience for a work of such comic brilliance , masterly characterization , and sheer breadth of conception . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm always in search of a bargain , sonny — for the people , you understand , ’ he added after yet another of those pauses that suggested it might have been an after-thought . |
| 5 | By the end of the year the government was forced to change the situation and announced it would produce a range of standard emergency furniture for bombed persons . |
| 6 | Corollary Inc hitched a ride on Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT wave and announced it will offer a symmetric multi-processing 80486-based system for developing and debugging NT applications , the MP Developer Station . |
| 7 | She did not have much time and believed it would have saved his job . |
| 8 | But while tanks revved in Lima 's main square , Washington shut off aid to Peru , worth nearly £200 million , and signalled it might veto new loans from multilateral institutions . |
| 9 | They proposed that Harward create such a super-track tuned to human elasticity , and predicted it would increase speeds by 2 or 3 per cent . |
| 10 | Shadow Health Secretary David Blunkett said the move by West Midlands Regional Health Authority is a ‘ fruitless exercise , ’ and warned it would confuse patients . |
| 11 | Michael Latham , an executive member of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs and a former director of the Housebuilders ' Federation , condemned the rise as unnecessary and warned it could lead to a recession . |
| 12 | If it is not placed under tension and pulled it will disappear . |
| 13 | The FAO organised a series of meetings between eminent experts , commissioned a mountain of reports , and decided it could help . |
| 14 | The publisher had made a decision , no doubt on sound commercial information , about the viability of the book as a course text and decided it should have a more restricted clientele who are in a position to buy a large-format , expensive paperback . |
| 15 | ‘ I came across this today , and thought it would interest you , ’ it said . |
| 16 | He considered buying a cake to eat , but while he was thinking about it he kept on walking , and thought it would look stupid to turn back so far up the street , so he did n't , though at the thought his stomach suddenly rumbled . |
| 17 | I crushed some of the flowers and rubbed them on my forehead as I 'm told it has an invigorating effect on cabbages and thought it might do the same for me . |
| 18 | I saw this little cutting and thought it might encourage some of us who have passed our sell by date stage . |
| 19 | Have you ever come out in a rash after working in the garden , and thought it might have been caused by a plant you were handling ? |
| 20 | She liked the reflected glory of her daughter 's being with such a famous star , and thought it could do nothing but good for the girl 's future in the theatre . |
| 21 | Properly set up and organised it can tell you a great deal about your business and in particular your customers . |
| 22 | Economy Minister Robert Atkins welcomed the planned flotation and said it would give every electricity consumer in Northern Ireland the opportunity to have a stake in the future of the industry . |
| 23 | Conservation bodies such as English Heritage and the Royal Fine Arts Commission were appalled at the plan and said it would ruin the historic town . |
| 24 | The International Atomic Energy Agency welcomed Mr de Klerk 's offer to allow inspection of its nuclear facilities and said it would send inspectors to verify the end of the nuclear weapon programme . |
| 25 | LIBYA reaffirmed its determination yesterday to fight United Nations sanctions and said it would expel diplomats from countries which have taken action against it . |
| 26 | Researchers at Edinburgh University 's Centre for Speech Technology yesterday announced the development of software to convert text into speech electronically in all nine official European Community languages , and said it would create quality-controlled pronunciation dictionaries of all Community city , town , street , family and product names in machine-readable form . |
| 27 | SDLP councillor Jonathan Stephenson described the motion as ‘ deeply offensive ’ and said it would create a ‘ Berlin Wall of implacable opposition ’ between the two communities . |
| 28 | It subsequently accused Hong Kong of breaking a 1982 agreement on immigration and said it would handle returns on a case-by-case basis . |
| 29 | IRAN yesterday demanded the extradition of demonstrators who ransacked several of its embassies on Sunday , including the mission in London , and said it would claim compensation from Western governments for damage to its property . |
| 30 | But last Wednesday , BNFL unveiled the completed plant and said it would recoup its costs in ten years and make a £500m profit . |