Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] it [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think she imagined if she did n't think about it it might go away . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No , know what he can do with it you 'll have to hoover up here in a minute Clare , get all this tobacco off , I 'm only joking , girl |
| 4 | I mean it would n't be the truth but you , if they did n't look into it you could say it could n't you ? |
| 5 | All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you . |
| 6 | You may depend upon it I will observe my master 's orders . |
| 7 | In the past , firms not authorised for investment business could feel fairly secure in the knowledge that if they did stray into it they would only be investigated in the event of a complaint . |
| 8 | You ca n't even he probably , he , he could n't , you do n't have to it they can give you |
| 9 | If people must pay for it they will take its effects into account in making private decisions and there will no longer be market failure . |
| 10 | All right , so I 've got a bottle of Scotch which costs about 50 quid and if the studio does n't pay for it I 'll never work for them again , and a big pile of this flimsy hotel notepaper . |
| 11 | Oh well Ange if you ai n't got ta pay for it I 'd bloody take it . |
| 12 | Alright I 'll get through it I wo n't be running about as much as what I usually do . |
| 13 | I tell you what you can get for it you can have erm a make-up bag with a string of pearls in they 're not real one you can have er more of that moist erm tissue stuff er a bag with sweetener things in it there 's er a video about a Biggin Air Show and loads of marshmallows too for Kids ' County number two here 's the clues , It 's got barbed wire around it its made of wood it 's long . |
| 14 | If you do n't talk about it nothing will happen , and this problem is n't going to go away , it needs to be solved . |
| 15 | We still have doubts about the effects of GCSE — but if we did n't teach for it we would be handicapping unforgivably the pupils in our charge . |