Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems impossible that they could not have known where they were ; they can only have ignored it deliberately , and therefore perhaps for political reasons of their own . |
| 2 | Is the contractor entitled to be relieved of responsibility on the basis that if the variation was going to be made in any event at that time , to have been further advanced in the contract programme would only have made it more expensive for the client ? |
| 3 | ‘ I think we 'd better try to get it home , Mrs Lomax , ’ said Tina . |
| 4 | There has been a great improvement in the range of goods and cards , I 'm sure you 'll all have noticed it too . |
| 5 | In moving towards a satisfying identification of some entity , the mind of a speaker will naturally tend to describe it initially by matching its roughly perceived whole against those properties that are most common in use and perceptually basic . |
| 6 | But looking after the stock does n't only mean handling it carefully ; it also means planning stock levels , ordering goods and storing them . |
| 7 | Great , lovely Lisa , if you 'd just like to stop it there , that was lovely . |
| 8 | We 'll just have to set it once but it has n't done it . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll just have to take it home , ’ said Wendy . |
| 10 | ' I suppose you 'd just have to take it home , madam . ’ |
| 11 | If you do n't take it , I will just have to throw it away . ’ |
| 12 | He 'd just have to accept it too . |
| 13 | Now — do you still want to go it alone ? ’ |
| 14 | Dessie will still have to take it easy when he returns to his stable in Melton Mowbray , Leics . |
| 15 | He did so when play was about to resume after a stoppage early in the last session of the fourth day , with the score 384 for 7 , and he could hardly have timed it more precisely ; 60 for 3 overnight , and , as next morning it looked as though it might rain at any time , Marshall decided to polish the rest off quickly . |
| 16 | And being aware of this prophecy , he can hardly have fulfilled it unwittingly , or through ‘ sheer coincidence ’ . |
| 17 | Lord Lundy could hardly have put it better . |
| 18 | Gorbachev 's otherwise adventurous address to an ideology conference in December 1984 , shortly before his assumption of the general secretaryship , was again wholly routine in its reference to the ‘ real equality of all nations and nationalities , their further all-round development and convergence , indissoluble brotherly friendship , deep family identity [ and the ] formation of a new historical community — the Soviet people ’ ( Brezhnev could hardly have put it better ) . |
| 19 | ‘ The reason I 'm calling , actually , is that my wallet seems to have disappeared and I wondered whether I could possibly have left it there . ’ |
| 20 | I feared that , but I must always have wanted it too , because when you had me dismissed from that job — Oh , I hated that , I hated not being able to see you any more , but I thought it was you I hated . |
| 21 | Engineers apart , there are no students who will ever manage to get it together to decide on pay . |
| 22 | If you cook constantly , have a family and are forced to spend a lot of time in the kitchen , you will probably want to make it much more of a family room where people can sit around and talk , have a drink , do their homework , write notes , lists , letters , pay bills , and do a lot of eating . |
| 23 | You will also want to place it so that it is not unsightly . |
| 24 | Even if the vote had gone against them today they 'd probably have flouted it even then . |
| 25 | Oh yes , you worked overtime , for which there was no pay , I mean , it did n't count er You see things , you know , there was less structure about it , then , erm and you could have ti if you wanted time off for something , you 'd probably have got it fairly easily , but er it did n't seem to be the great arguments that you 've had since . |
| 26 | We shall support the Bill but we shall also try to amend it sensibly . |
| 27 | With luck , Mr Gorbachev may also have left it too late to make a fourth big mistake : returning his country to dictatorship . |
| 28 | I did n't really want to do it very well . |
| 29 | ‘ Every single drop of water going in to your house has been expensively treated to make it drinkable , so do you really want to spray it all over your car ? ’ said Kent Meters Marketing Director Terry Stoten . |
| 30 | Foolishly she was disappointed , even though she should really have expected it all along . |