Example sentences of "it [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ He was charming , ’ she lied , and felt it was worth it to see him look relieved . |
| 2 | But it would all be worth it to see them settled and thriving in their new home . |
| 3 | ‘ We have to be some way above it to see it clearly . |
| 4 | I would prefer it to see it extended to ten miles if that sector was chosen . |
| 5 | In this type program , the pupils create a model of a situation and test it to see it reflects reality . |
| 6 | It 's not worth How much is it to go I 'm just thinking of the differe the cost of advertising |
| 7 | WordPerfect on it to compare it with the other one and it was I er said |
| 8 | It was as if she needed it to support her . |
| 9 | I did n't expect it to hit me quite so hard , but when I think about it it 's because I 'm so bloody sad that the last fourteen years were spent in dying not in living . |
| 10 | It smashed and he picked up one the table legs and used it to hit her . ’ |
| 11 | Always used to draw my truncheon if I went into a place where I thought there was a burglar but never actually used it to hit them . |
| 12 | But she had to admit that , realistically , he probably meant that she annoyed him beyond measure and that he was hard put to it to treat her civilly . |
| 13 | Allow the Darkfall to absorb you , allow it to transmogrify you . |
| 14 | The list dropped from her hand , and Mr Kronweiser seized on it to restore it to its place . |
| 15 | I bought it to enjoy it . ’ |
| 16 | They say you do n't have to understand it to enjoy it . |
| 17 | There are many people , though , who can not bear to delve too deeply into this vast and painful subject , although they are anxious to know enough about it to enable them to act wisely when called upon to support and console a relative who has suffered a major loss . |
| 18 | This model has enough structure built into it to enable us to answer interesting questions such as : ( i ) does the marginal utility of leisure decrease or increase with duration ? and ( ii ) do offer probabilities , unemployment benefit effects , and the conditional probability of leaving unemployment decrease or increase with duration ? |
| 19 | Yet now someone had found one of the openings , and was using it to kill me . |
| 20 | ‘ I want it to like me , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Oddly enough the worst was his shoulder , where the man had seized it to pull him out of the car . |
| 22 | He wound his fingers into her hair , using it to pull her gently towards him . |
| 23 | Squeeze the paper to the ‘ stem ’ and wind some sticky tape round it to secure it . |
| 24 | ‘ He told me he wrote it to distract him from pain in his last days . |
| 25 | I 'd only suggested it to distract her . |
| 26 | Erm , I think what erm the purpose for me , anyway , or the effect of under setting up the Gothic in detail and then undermining it , is that when you do allow it to stand it 's much more effective . |
| 27 | They will use it to shoot me , and I , that will not happen ever . |
| 28 | We 're relying on it to replace them . |
| 29 | he seemed to think he 's the er , he were doing it to sell them |
| 30 | Ya so that if the goes up to thirty thousand the reserve might be large enough to give it to sell it for that price . |