Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [adv] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 2 | He would do it everywhere and it drove me insane . |
| 3 | Well , we enjoyed that outing , er we had tea on the roof , which was all glass , never seen anything like it before and I sha n't see it again since it got burnt down anyway . |
| 4 | The calf was sold long ago , and she would not even recognize it now if it ambled into the yard . |
| 5 | ‘ I would n't drink it even if it tasted like the real thing , ’ comments Stephen , a 32-year-old designer . |
| 6 | Leroy Brown , at one stage a prodigious sprinter , reflected on a career which never materialized : ‘ I just do n't know why I could n't put it together when it mattered . |
| 7 | They 're perhaps little er more about the condition of the granules of a powder used for compressing into tablets , and the coating , how shall we coat it so that it washed away at once , dissolved slowly or anything like that . |