Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Croatian Premier Stjepan Mesic was elected to replace him after it was decided that the communist Suvar was not a fitting representative of the present Croatian administration .
2 Penrhos in North Wales has the distinction of a memorial to a symbolic attempt to destroy it before it was completed .
3 However , they could not guarantee to replace it if it were damaged or vandalised .
4 so they 're trying to corner it and it 's munching on grass quite happily , you could see it was watching a minute , but it was watching them away and I think er any minute it 's looking out the corner of its eye and then it 's just gon na go when he sees it getting closer .
5 Says train-mad Waterman : ‘ I was desperate to buy it because it was made in Newton Le Willows , where I now live .
6 Julie rolled over , finally propping herself against the back door , touching the bolts there to reassure herself that it was locked .
7 Ballantyne 's boys were very soft when they first saw the pig because they did not want to disturb it when it was sleeping .
8 It reads the Touch key when it 's placed on the sensor and uses it as an encryption key to decode data as it 's read and to encode it as it 's written .
9 Undoubtedly one of the underlying trends among public opinion about mental handicap is that parents should decide ; whether to have the child , whether to keep it once it is born .
10 She wanted to see it before it was touched ; wanted to meet its open eyes and fix its dead expression ; know it , for memory 's sake .
11 It does n't take steps to repair wear and tear , or to right itself when it is knocked over , the way a living body does .
12 The local postie failed to deliver it and it was returned down under .
13 We do n't want to upset them and it 's bound to smooth itself out in time . "
14 203 , the corporation , having for a number of years paid purchase tax on manufactured stationery , erroneously believing it to be due , sought to recover it when it was held not to be chargeable .
15 Willie longed to touch it but it was put under the counter and he quickly followed Tom back through the dark tunnel of materials and out into the daylight .
16 Steven thinks that just be I only just got in he said , I 'm having my tea and he said there 's no way I 'm gon na do nothing like that at this time of night when I 've been fourteen hours at work So then he stormed off back home again so he said well you 'll have to move it cos it 's obstructing the dual carriageway someone might come round that corner fast and hit it .
17 While working the FAXgrabber icon appears at the bottom of the screen and little bracket symbols move from side to side underneath it to tell you that it is operating .
18 Ask anyone about vitamin C and they will be able to tell you that it is found in oranges — but would they also know that it is in melons and tomatoes ?
19 As John Netherwood , who was in charge of publicity and sponsorship in 1964 , said : ‘ To get sponsors you have to tell everybody that it is going to be the biggest event that ever was , otherwise they wo n't put their money in . ’
20 Cos used to tell 'em when it was gon na be and they would have time before the event to get it all tidied up , it was all ready , he would in and say , there 's such and such on that one , such and such on this one
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