Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you act a part properly you do n't act it at all ; you are it , and you make it — you . |
| 2 | Boys , he said , needed ‘ excitement ’ , and if they could not get it by legitimate ways then they would ‘ seek it in mischief and vice ’ . |
| 3 | If we want to see the glory of God ( which no man can do in all its unmediated radiance , and live , Exod. 33:20 ) then we must seek it in the person of Jesus . |
| 4 | Lee 's hid some gunpowder he swiped from under the Arches and I 'm gon na pinch it off him . ’ |
| 5 | Hell , I made a crystal radio while in Junior High School , but I do n't include it as part of my credentials . |
| 6 | For the first time in Britain , doctors can include it on death certificates as the cause of death . |
| 7 | Er you would n't include it on your list of essentials ? |
| 8 | These changes essentially affected only the production strand of the course as editorial staff retained an element of scepticism about the evolution of SGML ( and ASPIC ) and its significance for copy-editors , preferring to inform students of its existence rather than include it within working practice . |
| 9 | We note it but we do n't include it within the land availability figures in relation to erm policy I four . |
| 10 | Just do n't include it in the presentation , that 's all . |
| 11 | Will you include it in future when you are talking ? |
| 12 | He did n't include it in Colton Town . ’ |
| 13 | " I only want expert help , remember , and if you want to ride , just say the word , but do n't include it in the curriculum of the Moorlake Secretarial School . " |
| 14 | Where a statutory authority is under a mandatory obligation to supply a service , whether with a saving or nuisance clause ( that nothing shall exonerate it from proceedings for nuisance ) or whether without such a clause , the authority is under no liability for anything expressly required by statute to be done , or reasonably incidental to that requirement , if it was done without negligence . |
| 15 | He was not saying merely that you believed it , but that you could know it as certainty ! |
| 16 | Should this be announced during my absence , as is not unlikely , I would you should know it as a marriage of convenience , no more . |
| 17 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 18 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
| 19 | I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) . |
| 20 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 21 | Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth . |
| 22 | I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |
| 23 | Though I did n't know it at the time , Lebanon was suffering only the hors d'oeuvre of the devil 's dinner . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I did n't know it at the time , but the telegraphist on the next set to mine-Lofty , he 's called — was on my wavelength too . |
| 25 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
| 26 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
| 27 | ‘ I did n't know it at the time . |
| 28 | I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 29 | Of course I did n't know it at the time , but by then my mother and father 's marriage was showing cracks . |
| 30 | ‘ The goat does n't know it at first , but learns . |