Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not want to find out if it was friendly . |
| 2 | It is the only castle I have been to which has a front doorbell , which you need to pull on if you want to see round since it is not automatically open to visitors . |
| 3 | We 're the one 's who unashamedly say , Europe has to go forward if it does n't go backwards . |
| 4 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
| 5 | We might for example want to find out if it 's freezing outside without going outside to feel directly how cold it is . |
| 6 | The first pruning after planting is the important formative prune — the plant can not be expected to grow right if it does not start right . |
| 7 | what , what I propose to do anyway if it 's agreeable to you |
| 8 | If the stake can not take the strain and goes at the ground level weak spot , the plant stem has to bend sharply where it is trapped between its firmly-held root and the bottom tie . |
| 9 | Processes such as DVI , for example , will need to improve radically if it is to provide acceptable video at HDTV standards . |
| 10 | For many of us it was a huge disappointment ; a paradox , too , that a people who had proved themselves historically and geographically over and over again , who had shown a rare talent for managing the affairs of other people , should choose to chicken out when it came to managing their own . |
| 11 | They seek to come here because it is a nice place . |
| 12 | Under that section , the constable would be empowered to seize only if it is ‘ necessary ’ to do so in order to prevent the evidence being concealed , altered , lost or destroyed . |
| 13 | A lot of people just think by definition the world is going to carry on as it is today , but it does n't . |
| 14 | We 've got to go away before it 's too late . " |
| 15 | I 've got to go now as it 's time for me to get my new dresses fitted . |
| 16 | After all the excitement of a major event a time of exhaustion and deflation tends to set in when it is over . |
| 17 | Well probably in your early days you 'll probably do a mix , but if y the quicker you can get to only work , and even to the extent I mean I went out and bought my own book that had personal recommendations on the front and I would actually show that and say look John the only way I actually work , while I get everything ready you might like to look through because it 's the only way I work , I purely work on a personal recommendation basis and that enables me to get quality clients like yourself erm and I can devote time to you rather than have to go out looking for people to tell my story |
| 18 | ‘ You mean you 're going to help even if it kills me ? ’ |
| 19 | Er but anyway , discretionary management can cost a lot of money , erm but you 've got to weigh up whether it 's actually worth it . |
| 20 | I did n't really look at him , though I immediately smelled alcohol on his breath , and thought , that firm is n't going to last long if it 's sending out drunken drivers to pick up clients . |
| 21 | His father told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life , but he was finally persuaded to do so because it was pointed out to him that if the British Army did not send back the Cossacks , the Soviets would not send back British POWs . |
| 22 | Erm , the kid 's got to figure out if it 's going to use that to project the other sentences then it might come across it 's got to , it 's got ta decompose that into structure . |
| 23 | No on really knows how a wine is going to turn out until it is bottled — even then , claret 's development is notoriously fickle . |
| 24 | But insurers have agreed to pay out if it is discovered in future that procedures which would now be classified as benign are found to cause environmental damage . |
| 25 | ‘ And sitting on a wrecked pod that 's going to blow up if it does n't blow away first is just way too safe for me . |
| 26 | He looked at it as his forearm began to slide inwards after it ; the wall perfectly seamless , with no sign of irruption , no disturbance to its surface . |
| 27 | With such a commitment , McDonnell-Douglas may then decide to pull out if it concludes that the industry is not big enough for three profitable producers . |
| 28 | And here , we began to wonder aloud if it would n't be preferable , in the long term interests of America 's domestic car makers , to leave the planned invasion of Europe to MPVs , luxury cars and convertibles . |
| 29 | Disposal of our domestic rubbish is something we tend to forget about once it 's been picked up by the dust-cart . |
| 30 | My life is set to go on as it always has and no war can change it that I can see . ’ |