Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counsel thought so little of it that he did not seek to sustain it before the House of Lords . |
| 2 | The reader should resist the temptation to think of the law as a closed set of rules and principles , and should strive to see it as a setting in which the business of politics and government is carried on . |
| 3 | You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with . |
| 4 | If it did not exist , would anyone trouble to invent it at a time when , from the Atlantic to the Urals , socialism in all its manifestations is losing the argument to liberal capitalism ? |
| 5 | Why would he need to do it in the dark ? |
| 6 | They ca n't wait to mix it with the opposition ! |
| 7 | She appealed unashamedly to her English readers for money for the foreign artists : ‘ If anyone likes to send some money , I will promise to dispense it with the most rigid favouritism towards people who would probably sooner beg than risk the jaundice of a free meal and would sooner have a note of twenty francs all at once than beg every day . ’ |
| 8 | Erm we 'll need to isolate separately the wages on that cost Lynne because we 'll need to add it to the |
| 9 | Oh we 're not , we do n't need to take it till the next one . |
| 10 | Clearly something strange was happening to the Edwardian Conservative party : but does one need to label it as a flirtation with ‘ proto-Fascism ’ ? |
| 11 | IN 1900 Tiller had an idea for a routine which excited him so much he could hardly wait to show it to the public . |
| 12 | Right , well we 'll just need to stuff it in the bag then . |
| 13 | When the next version arrives , you might want to install it in a separate subdirectory ( in case it has a hidden bug ) and keep the old version for a few months . |
| 14 | " Why did you expect to find it in the laundry-basket ? " |
| 15 | At the end of the sequence , you may choose to close it with a fade out , but a straight cut to the first shot of the next sequence might be more brisk and businesslike . |
| 16 | This is your day and we will endeavour to organise it in a way that reflects your needs and requirements . |
| 17 | ‘ She did n't want to discuss it on the phone , that 's all I know . |
| 18 | Let's have a look at how you manage your time at the moment and how you 'd like to reorganize it for the future . |
| 19 | You may like to compare it with a list of your own . |
| 20 | President of the Europe Commission , Jacques Delors , would like to see it as the only EC currency , but John Majors wants it to circulate alongside other currencies . |
| 21 | Yes I 'd like to see it for a day or two but not for a fortnight |
| 22 | We 're talking about a lot of money here , that has been spent , and has continued to be spent , and the sooner we get it sorted out the better , and I 'd like to see it on the agenda of the next budget review committee , which would prior to the policy committee , I believe next , and so we could perhaps augment er , Mr 's report with some findings of our own . |
| 23 | In a recent NCT survey , 19 out of 20 British people said they approved of breastfeeding in principle , but did n't like to see it in a public place . |
| 24 | If the three volumes had a thematic heart ( in fact their whole method defies centralisation ) one might like to see it in the dialogue of Legolas and Gimli , walking through Minas Tirith at III , 149 , and looking at the masonry . |
| 25 | Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ? |
| 26 | Perhaps they would like to choose it for the next one . |
| 27 | He then sees displayed in a shop window , a fur coat priced at £500 , and decides he would like to buy it as a present for his wife . |
| 28 | Or it could be that they would be appropriate for the reception area in one of the factories , or we might give one to a distributor and say , here you are , this you know , put this in if you 've got the right sort of area and would like to use it for a bit , stick it in there . |
| 29 | But Mark would like to do it without the company ! |
| 30 | But would she like to do it with a stranger and one so strange as Leon who came , not just from ten miles off , but a thousand ? |