Example sentences of "it [conj] we [modal v] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've been in a recession before and come through it and we 'll do it again . ’ |
| 2 | Untie it , bring it here and if someone asks you why you 're doing that , tell them that the master needs it and we 'll send it back at once . |
| 3 | But erm , anyway er , tell us what you made of it and we 'll take it from there , I think . |
| 4 | See what you can make of it and we 'll discuss it later . |
| 5 | Yes , it 's open Mondays to Fridays , from quarter to nine through to quarter to five , and anyone can just walk in and we 'll do our best to help them produce whatever it is they want to see , providing we 've got it and we can find it . |
| 6 | Yes , it 's open Mondays to Fridays from quarter to nine through to quarter to five , and anyone can just walk in and we 'll do our best to help them and produce whatever it is they want to see , providing we 've got it and we can find it . |
| 7 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 8 | These concessions from the mining company seemed to point to another Irish solution to an Irish problem — ‘ We 'll do it but we 'll do it out of sight ’ . |
| 9 | God 's power resent with us in the here and now , we ca n't see it but we can feel it . |
| 10 | We do not have to encode what we want to say from something else before we can say it , or decode it before we can understand it . |
| 11 | They hurt , sometimes excruciatingly , but on the deepest level of all , it is somehow ‘ all right ’ ; and out of the praise and gratitude and joy that spring from it when we can grasp it , I think that we may give ourselves permission for the more mundane , but wonderfully healing emotion of happiness . |