Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Sorry , I did n't mean it to sound that way .
32 ‘ I did n't mean it to sound that way , ’ Ruth huffed .
33 I did n't mean it to happen this way . ’
34 You did not mean it to happen this time .
35 As we stressed in Chapter 9 , the Rover Group may produce a large share of the motor cars manufactured in the UK but this does not necessarily mean it has significant market power .
36 This photograph , this swipe of grain , so briefly glimpsed : I could tell it contained extraordinary information .
37 ‘ I do n't think it made any difference to my career or Peter 's , ’ says Finney .
38 " I do n't think it makes much difference where we do a bit of scratching , " he said .
39 But , I do n't think it makes any profit , but , you know , profit .
40 Do n't you think it makes any impact ?
41 I , I , I take all the planning and what the officer is saying , but I mean do n't you think it makes more sense from our point of view than we realize .
42 At the end of the day I do n't think it affects everyday life in Darlington .
43 Must be the leaves I think because I do n't think it flowers this shrub here .
44 Erm and I do n't think it looks good hanging out because it 's , you , you paying in the skirt and the belt and that .
45 erm what impact do you think it has when you have a complex in which there is such a , is such a high level of unemployment in which , which so few people are working , I mean , the ar the area itself , do you think it has certain implications or not ?
46 I think it means they 're all just older family , I do n't think it means six year olds .
47 Well , now you can make it come true thanks to The Limit .
48 No you 're not put it down , go away that 's for Benjamin 's birthday , I do n't want it getting dirty while were having er tea
49 ‘ How d' you want it done this time ?
50 Rickards did n't want it to become public knowledge and it wo n't .
51 Sources say there were only really four companies behind COSE : Unix System Laboratories Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc : beyond that , says the source , Santa Cruz Operation Inc had to fight to get in and the Open Software Foundation was not a party to the negotiations ; but the real power behind the throne , although it does n't want it to appear that way , was of course Novell Inc .
52 The power behind the throne , though it does n't want it to appear that way , was Novell Inc .
53 The Vienna Convention defines a treaty as an agreement ‘ governed by international law ’ and does not require it to allocate legal rights and obligations .
54 During all the years that the Scottish Select Committee existed , I do not recall it undertaking that task .
55 It was just incompetence that I did n't get it done this week .
56 In January 1990 the government announced that a United States crop substitution aid package worth US$12,000,000 would allow it to eradicate 6,000 hectares of coca plants provided that foreign markets for substitute crops were provided .
57 Those whose attitudes are negative and who consequently will have a powerful filter , even when they understand a message in the second language , will not allow it to reach that part of the brain responsible for language acquisition .
58 IBM bought up the technology outright before going public on its agreement with Apple to ensure that no enterprising outfit could subsequently go off and get a licence from Interactive that would allow it to develop compatible versions of PowerOpen , AIX or even Pink .
59 And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values .
60 She drank automatically when It was over , noticed only when her glass was empty and did n't let it stay that way long .
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