Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] and it " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example on the building that we 're talking about shifting , first of all we 've got to find a site for the thing , then we 've got to get planning permission , then we 've got to get the actual permission of the owner of the land , then we 've got to make sure that erm electricity 's laid on , that there 's water laid on , that there 's some sort of toilet or other facilities and so on , and when you add all that up it 's quite a complicated sort of series of bureaucratic procedures you 've got to go through and it 's not a question of , you know , of people saying to us as Councillors well , you know , do this for us and we can magic it out in six months out of thin air _ there 's an awful lot of paperwork that 's got to be gone through and an awful lot of people to see and an awful lot of red tape , really , to get through first — I mean just to make sure that the thing 's safe and complies with health and safety standards — and that 's something which you have to get across to young people and if they 're involved in the actual discussions on this and involved in the organisation , they begin to see the complexities and they 're less inclined , I think , to automatically assume that erm people are n't on their side and do n't want to listen . |
| 2 | I 've got to go back and it takes me sometimes twice , sometimes three times when you get all this rubbish that he has to take round . |
| 3 | Nobody 's going to know officially and it 's not as if there are hundreds of you or anything — I mean , so what if somebody does find you ? |
| 4 | With each increase in the average rate of pay , the minimum wage itself would have to go up and it would be for ever chasing its own tail . |
| 5 | It started to pour in and it was compared with previous . |
| 6 | ‘ Our losses were mainly due to promotional activity from our rivals , but we decided to fight back and it has paid dividends . |
| 7 | In the majority of cases the homoeopathic remedy appeared to work effectively and it was rare for the patient to require the conventional therapy . |
| 8 | ‘ With a three-stroke lead it 's almost inevitable that you start to look ahead and it happened to me . ’ |
| 9 | A developing developing regional democracy is erm is a difficult thing to get to get across and it 's one of those things that Liberal Democrats talk away for hours about at their Conferences . |
| 10 | Rocastle continued to play brilliantly and it was he who crossed the ball in for the third . |
| 11 | " Open " meetings of any of the Anonymous Fellowships are there for all to observe who wish to do so and it is a scientific and academic disgrace that experience of this successful method of treatment for a major disease is not a compulsory ( or even an acknowledged ) part of standard undergraduate or postgraduate medical curricular . |
| 12 | However , the Soviet pilot of the aircraft chartered to transport the missiles refused to do so and it was not until mid-February that a US aircraft set out . |