Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The less knowledgeable may attempt to forestall it or remove the child 's attention from it . |
| 2 | ‘ Would you care to modify it if I tell you that we have reason to believe that you recognised Wetherby at dinner on Thursday night ? ’ |
| 3 | Fulmars from ‘ Formidable ’ were also flying patrols and on one such sortie Lt. R. MacDonald-Hall , with L/A Harry Phillips in rear seat , sighted a He111 but were unable to catch it before it disappeared into the fog . |
| 4 | Let it ring — what do I care ? thought Dyson , as he hurled himself out into the hall to catch it before it stopped ringing . |
| 5 | I felt the chain break — I tried to catch it but … |
| 6 | Try pulling one of the other 's single doors open on a mountain in a gale waiting for a gust to catch it and snap the stay . |
| 7 | He sent a lad after it to try to catch it and with disgust watched me limp towards him rubbing a bruised thigh . |
| 8 | The other children all try to catch it and , when one of them does , they hide it behind their back . |
| 9 | As his faithful knight Bedivere cast Arthur 's sword Excalibur into the waters of Llyn Llydaw the hand of the Lady of the Lake rose up to catch it and draw it down into the depths forever . |
| 10 | Oh yes , they were all fed properly , looked after alright , but they all , they told me they were all pedigrees but I doubt cos I do n't know whether that 's the truth , but they reckon in Poland when things were bad , when they unload them , they 'd make some excuse that one of these pigs got out and run away and course they used to catch it er , somewhere they used to catch it and that was their fee then . |
| 11 | Thomas Rennison had been keen to try it and Botterill had agreed to hold his rope . |
| 12 | You can never say who is going to try it and who is n't — I mean , I even tried it myself . |
| 13 | I 'll have to try it and see how I get on . |
| 14 | Yeah , well we 'll have to try it and see how it works . |
| 15 | I think you 've to try it and not know . |
| 16 | Or as Dr Ed Wheat puts it in Love Life for Every Married Couple , ‘ If you are afraid to try it because you are afraid you will be hurt , consider this : the risk of pain is always the price of life . ’ |
| 17 | The use of the airbrakes during the final turn should be discussed and pilots should be encouraged to try it if they are too high . |
| 18 | It 's getting too confusing I 've got to try it cos if I just |
| 19 | well I have , I 'm making adjustments , what I mean , what I 'd finished it , I did n't bother to try it cos it did n't work , now I found out why it do n't work I have to change the rod , I 've got the rod in the wrong place |
| 20 | There were plans to revive it and turn it into an Ulster Loyalist pressure group when a leading member , Archibald Whitmore , an ex-member of the Ulster Volunteer Force , announced to influential people at the Bath Club that he planned to develop the BF in Ireland along the same lines as the movement in 1914 . |
| 21 | It was there my husband and I began to develop our theories , Darcian Monetarism as it came to be called : that the answer to our current economic ills is not to control inflation but to encourage it until we cease to be a money economy altogether . |
| 22 | ‘ You have got to accept it but it 's absolutely maddening that 30,000 people saw a good tackle but the referee gave a foul . |
| 23 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 24 | To accept it as being a contest between good and evil ( see above ) . |
| 25 | No statutory formula has been found that can make a provision judge-proof , in the sense of inducing the courts to accept it as excluding all opportunity for review , not even providing that a decision ‘ shall not be called in question in any court of law ’ . |
| 26 | well I , I think I 'll take agree Mr you know much more about these matters than I do , I just , my eye just lit upon that one I thought that would perhaps the one in which the insurance directive could be said to be attached , but if you 've told me it 's C I 'm perfectly happy to accept it as being C. |
| 27 | ‘ The plan is dead , long live the new plan , ’ Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said after his people finished voting in a referendum on whether to accept it or not . |
| 28 | ‘ I totally accept that what you need is the ability to get people to believe in the vision that you put forward of the company , to accept it and to be willing to work towards it . |
| 29 | It was hard and they hurt , but you soon learn to accept it and respect them as they do you . |
| 30 | It was hard and they hurt , but you soon learn to accept it and respect them as they do you . |