Example sentences of "[prep] it [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but your baby when anything comes to actually buying for it and er looking after it I would imagine , I ca n't see him doing all what he says he 's gon na do with it Lynn |
| 2 | cos I says if he looks after it I 'll buy him one with radio on as well |
| 3 | no where erm the multiple concern who looked after that business , where their national account department looked after that corporate we would look after it and where their key account department looked after it you would look after it and is a national account for for erm |
| 4 | Then below it you would have da da , year and somehow the subject fitted in on a line across , below it ? |
| 5 | It may well be that had they known of it they would have been even more exigent . |
| 6 | On the face of it they may appear to do little more than give effect to the government 's consistent promise to maximise the opportunities for parental choice in the education system . |
| 7 | yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void |
| 8 | And er then at the end of it we 'll talk it through . |
| 9 | And for a really considered exposition of it we can turn to Charles Temple 's Native Races and their Rulers ( 1918 ) , a remarkable work which , though it bears the unmistakable stamp of a mind operating obsessively in isolation , pursuing ideas by their internal logic rather than by the rules of external evidence , can yet be assumed to possess a representative character . |
| 10 | One of the themes of the 1990s that we can identify for ourselves — although what history will make of it we must wait and see — is the concept of government by charter , with the underlying idea that poor public service can be remedied by better management held by force and compensation to higher performance standards . |
| 11 | But perhaps , by telling him of it she might break through the shell of quiet self-sufficiency and recollection that had kept her at bay since his return from Student Cross . |
| 12 | When Alice told her a little of how she felt ( some of it she could tell no one ) , and how she was angry with God as well as Belle Maman , Aunt Violet said God would understand : ‘ He is All Wise , Alice . |
| 13 | It was a more than intellectual comprehension ; and to write of it she must strive to become that meeting . |
| 14 | His central idea , the ultimate negation of the will to live , … ( offers ) the only salvation possible " — and turning to his own artistic activities , present and prospective , he added , " I have in my head Tristan und Isolde … ; with the " black flag " that flutters at the end of it I shall shroud myself to die . " |
| 15 | ‘ By the look of it I would think so . ’ |
| 16 | She did n't say what it was or who published it or anything , but it made me you know think you know , so I wrote to her care of Writers something and erm asked her what 's the name of it I would like to read it because I had also written something about the er American Indians and erm er who 's the publisher or what 's it called , I 'd like to read it . |
| 17 | At the first sign of it I 'll threaten to pull out altogether . |
| 18 | On the assumption that , you know , you 'd buy the cheap one , might and when you want to get rid of it I 'll buy the dear one . |
| 19 | I must find him before I sail home , and come to think of it I 'll need to fix the boat too ! |
| 20 | I enjoyed what little of it I could manage , though . |
| 21 | If you want to make a fight of it I should warn you that they were not his to give . |
| 22 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Come to think of it I 'd have given you the oranges even if you 'd said no . ’ |
| 24 | If I 'd thought of it I 'd have sent her a message : You wo n't be welcome . ’ |
| 25 | Which is ridiculous cos if you put a H in front of it it should say hate . |
| 26 | From the sound of it he 'd blow you away without a second thought . |
| 27 | Out of it he could see Barry , his bike propped up against his house , mending his chain . |
| 28 | The amount of dis-information about the compatibility between PCs and Macintoshes is really quite staggering , on the face of it you would think that they were unable to speak at all . |
| 29 | ‘ Everybody had their suspicions about him , ’ said Jonathan Miller , who worked with him ; ‘ A lot of it you would discount because he had a tendency to engage in rhetorical hyperbole . |
| 30 | So you would get quite a quite a lot of it you would hear . |