Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes it might I 've seen it spelt both ways . |
| 2 | We would like to see it encompass these and other elements so as to allow every farmer in Wales an opportunity to volunteer a package of agri-environmental commitments drawn from a broad menu of approved activities , as the basis for a negotiated , long term , grant-aid agreement . ’ |
| 3 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 4 | If you make college too comfortable nobody will ever want to leave it to do proper work . |
| 5 | If the early universe had been chaotic or irregular , or if the pressure of matter had been low , one would have expected it to produce many more primordial black holes than the limit already set by our observations of the gamma ray background . |
| 6 | Perhaps the court would have accepted it had that stipulation been explicit . |
| 7 | Observing Raskolnikov wince at the idea of eternity as a bathhouse , he murmurs ‘ with a vague smile ’ that he would certainly have made it like that himself . |
| 8 | Do n't have to do it done that one . |
| 9 | John Rodwell , a specialist inspector from the Health and Safety Executive , said it appeared Mr Eaton had been using the burning torch to cut at the edge of the slot at one end of the pipe trying to open it and hot gases could have caused it to become dislodged and fall . |
| 10 | At the thought that I could ever have imagined it had any value . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'll have to have it dyed black , ’ the mother said . |
| 12 | You might have to get it going first . |
| 13 | Also , although he would have denied it had any influence at all , Ketura had told him Jeopardy used that court , and that he always practised early . |
| 14 | He says he would have liked it to continue this way . |
| 15 | Lord Hewart C.J. would have chosen it seems reasonable man and reasonable suspicion , while Lord Denning M.R. chooses reasonable man and likelihood . |
| 16 | We have come to expect the premeditated dishonesty of Conservative Central Office to be reprinted in the Daily Mail , but we do not intend to allow it to go unchallenged in the columns of Hansard . |
| 17 | At Manhattan 's Fulton fish market in the shadow of Brooklyn Bridge , fishmongers pay about $1.40 to have 100lb of fish carried across South Street — the same price they would pay to have it carried all the way from the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 18 | You will recall that when we talked about the libido theory , I said that there were erm different one of the reasons why Freud had to introduce the libido theory was he wanted to get away from the narrow biological reproductive concept of sex to do with genitals and reproduction which is of course he 'd want to expand it to include psychological never seen before er or never seen before so clearly , such as erm love of the self and , and this he gave the name narcissism , well he did n't actually , somebody else invented it not long before and he took it over very quickly . |
| 19 | It 's a sophisticated kind of machine and , like a machine , you ca n't afford to let it get rusty or it 'll seize up . ’ |
| 20 | Simple economics — I ca n't afford to leave it lying idle . |
| 21 | And , even if they do n't cure cellulite , they should help to stop it getting worse . |