Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [modal v] [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He touched his hair self-consciously , worried that the high wind outside might have disturbed it . |
| 2 | Although the computer industry enjoys getting into a tizzy about the ever-increasing number of processors , anyone buying a 386SX 18 months ago would have wanted it to last at least three years . |
| 3 | In order for a capitalist mode of production to perpetuate itself , for example , a majority of capitalists and workers alike must fail to comprehend it . |
| 4 | The fire brigade arriving five minutes later might have done it , ten minutes , definitely not . |
| 5 | Who a decade ago would have thought it possible that the chief benefactor of bus deregulation would be BR ? |
| 6 | Just the handling of equipment , and the new video equipment being delivered , and the hope that the division will invest in its own equipment , erm maybe it 's just a question really , do n't know if people here could help to answer it , but erm the more video equipment we have the more problems we have actually with erm just keeping it all up together , keeping it all working , and it is a constant problem with stuff being borrowed and coming back with bits missing or bits not functioning , mostly leads . |
| 7 | Whatever news the couriers had to tell , the men behind would have to hear it . |
| 8 | Immediately a great roar of applause broke out , and Gurney looked at the audience , and this time his self-satisfied smirk seemed to be so obvious , to George at any rate , that he could not understand how the audience too could fail to see it . |
| 9 | A stranger attending a reception to mark the opening of new or refurbished office accommodation recently might have found it difficult differentiating between the property professionals and the PR men . |
| 10 | It was supposed to be a big secret when we heard it but Open Systems Today must have announced it internally by now — it 's killing off its stepchild , the Santa Cruz Magazine . |