Example sentences of "it [conj] [pron] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 And here we did see , by particular favour , the body of Queen Katherine of Valois ; and I had the upper part of her body in my hands , and I did kiss her mouth , reflecting upon it that I did kiss a Queene , and this was my birthday , thirty-six years old , that I did kiss a Queene . ’
2 ‘ Then I think you must take it that you do know . ’
3 ‘ I take it that you do live there by yourself , Fran ?
4 ‘ Then what was it that you did mean ? ’
5 Their friends told them they were crazy , it sold for a nickel and nobody , they discovered , had the curiosity to buy it although it did make all the local Greenwich Village news-stands .
6 He played Lord Fancourt at Windsor Rep for one week in 1952 but says : ‘ I ca n't remember one thing about it although I do have a photograph of me looking extremely young and lovely . ’
7 I would n't mind going to hear it if they do have a meeting
8 Though whether they 'll be able to do anything about it if they do see him … ’
9 ‘ And Terry would n't believe it if we did warn him , ’ Tony said .
10 Yes I mean if it if it does go to good to soft he will like the ground .
11 But you 've got to think about it if it does happen to you .
12 ‘ And tell me , Miss Lea , just what would you do about it if I did touch you ?
13 There is utter and total confusion and anything that stands still they used to say they would paint it in industry they now say market test it and they do admit to us that the end object does not necessarily mean complete contractorization or privatization , but at this particular moment in time
14 He looked very nice in it and he did win the contest , so Ken did know what he was doing .
15 Nonetheless , if you are reading this you have n't forgotten us , we are working on it and I do think Graduate Associations have a place in the 90's .
16 and its lasted the memory of it and I do wish I had reported it or at least gone to the library staff .
17 Na er well of course I 'm seve seventy nine but I can still remember most of it and I did have a very bad time !
18 ‘ I thought about it and it does go back to those very early days and probably to that first meeting , ’ she says .
19 The Chancellor yesterday very kindly did not put V A T on books and periodicals but had he done so that would have the effect of taking more than one hundred thousand pounds out of our accounts in the current year without us being able to do anything about it and it does seem to me that we should be considering asking the members in general meeting to pass to the Council of the Association the right to set and increase subscriptions and having properly advised the members thereof to fix the effective date of such increases , otherwise we are very badly placed to respond to short-term problems .
20 er I 'm slightly worried about the effect on the Olympic movement of Atlanta being chosen only in the sense that er that this is the , I think the sixth time in 25 years that a North American city has got it and it does look rather as if the er pressures are now , on the financial side , are now coming very much from the North American continent and I 'm not at all sure that that 's really good for the Olympic movement .
21 ‘ What we brought into the head office was financial expertise as I 'd recognise it and it did deliver a huge benefit including giving professionally-based leadership at the centre for all the financial staff already working out there in the field .
22 Some things can be done without it but we do need money .
23 The official regatta has virtually nothing to do with it but it does give farmers with riverside frontage an extra source of income … which has reached six figures , although not this year .
24 er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room .
25 My hair is really short so I do n't actually have to style it but it did feel better and I would use this conditioner again . ’
26 When we go home we will know more and we will certainly talk more about it but I do know that our development programme is underway .
27 I try to ignore it but I do worry she may be going short of protein and vitamins .
28 I , I certainly do n't erm propose to go through the service requirements to approve it but I did say that to start with , I just wanted to clarify that all the policies have been
29 I did n't although I did n't slam it but I did shut it .
30 But he would n't be letting you use your time if you were that poor at it because they do build you up very slowly .
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