Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [conj] 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 | So she left it all to herself and tried to carry on but it was too much for her . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | A lot of people just think by definition the world is going to carry on as it is today , but it does n't . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After all the excitement of a major event a time of exhaustion and deflation tends to set in when it is over . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But he forgot to let on that it was still being built — and did n't have any beer . |
| 14 | ECGD would like to point out that it actually has no ‘ official inspectors ’ , as quoted in the article , who arrange the recovery of goods in cases of buyer default . |
| 15 | I would like to point out that it ai nt mine , I 'm waiting for a C Reg Escort to come through . |
| 16 | I hasten to point out that it is not envisaged that in the UK police officers themselves shall be trained to use hypnosis , as in some states of the US . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | No on really knows how a wine is going to turn out until it is bottled — even then , claret 's development is notoriously fickle . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And that 's what 's happening at the moment , because we 're not sitting down and saying , I mean , this is my worry about oh we might do this there , that 's why I want it tightened up because at the end of the day we start , we have various modules at a later date , two , three years time whatever we might decide to sling out but it should really be designed , worked upon so that the incoming person can use it as a basis given their limitations |
| 23 | It was only as they drew nearer that he began to make out that it was the concrete skeleton of an unfinished three-storey duplex , its half-built walls , pillars and floors rising out of a sea of mud . |
| 24 | My life is set to go on as it always has and no war can change it that I can see . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Then sit back , relax , and just take it easy , you wo n't have to go out when it 's all wet and breezy . |
| 27 | You can try to work out whether it is autobiography or murder mystery and how it works within these genre classifications . |
| 28 | It started to pour in and it was compared with previous . |
| 29 | ‘ Our losses were mainly due to promotional activity from our rivals , but we decided to fight back and it has paid dividends . |
| 30 | ‘ This guy got fed up with it , threw his skis over one ridge and started to climb over when it collapsed . |