Example sentences of "[prep] it and [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a mistake to put in a clause that you know will not be enforceable in the hope that employees will be afraid of it and will not try to compete when they leave . |
| 2 | She becomes frightened of the foal or aggressive towards it and will not let it suckle . |
| 3 | Thus the double layer moves more slowly than the average and so yet more growth layers pile up behind it and can not pass . |
| 4 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 5 | In the second case , however , compulsory acquisition at less than market price involves an actual loss since the owner is not only deprived of his property but is also compensated at a price which might be less than he paid for it and would almost certainly be insufficient to purchase a similar parcel of land in the open market . |
| 6 | So I went looking for it and could n't find it ! |
| 7 | ‘ It 's equally possible , sir , that she knows all about it and may well choose to tell me something . |
| 8 | a lot about it and sha n't be , frankly I 'm relieved I do n't actually know a lot but when the meeting to discuss what we 're supposed to do is on December tenth yo so I 'm a bit torn cos I in a way that 's what I ought to be doing even though the welfare business in a way that 's wh that 's what I ought to be doing cos it 's entirely . |
| 9 | ‘ I want to think about it and will probably make my mind up in the next day or two . ’ |
| 10 | However , the altimeter was buried and no doubt if it still has not been found , someone roving round the forests with their metal detectors today will come across it and will not be able to understand what an ancient altimeter is doing there after 60 years . |