Example sentences of "[verb] it [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fulmars from ‘ Formidable ’ were also flying patrols and on one such sortie Lt. R. MacDonald-Hall , with L/A Harry Phillips in rear seat , sighted a He111 but were unable to catch it before it disappeared into the fog . |
| 2 | Let it ring — what do I care ? thought Dyson , as he hurled himself out into the hall to catch it before it stopped ringing . |
| 3 | He has not won it since he demolished John Parrott in 1989 — and he has shown a total commitment and desire to lift the trophy at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield on May 4 . |
| 4 | Would of won it if I 'd been on |
| 5 | well I have , I 'm making adjustments , what I mean , what I 'd finished it , I did n't bother to try it cos it did n't work , now I found out why it do n't work I have to change the rod , I 've got the rod in the wrong place |
| 6 | ‘ He not only has it but he sent them to fetch it . ’ |
| 7 | ( One story , which entered his official state Department biography , has it that he told several students that his own rise to the position of ambassador showed what great opportunities there were for the young in Iran . |
| 8 | Rumour has it that he contracted a venereal disease at some point and sought medical treatment . |
| 9 | Moody thinks that ‘ the final stanza may allude to a variant of Ariadne 's tale , which has it that she did not die of a broken heart but was loved by Bacchus ’ . |
| 10 | A Tory headquarters spokesman denied they disclosed her name to the press , claiming they did not know it until they saw the Independent newspaper on Wednesday . |
| 11 | It is unlikely that we ever achieve an exact match between intention and interpretation , and we probably would not know it if we did . |
| 12 | As you hint at in your letter , the musical ‘ anoraks ’ are often of the ‘ would n't know it if they heard it ’ variety anyway , and hate the thought of anyone having an intuition , or a touch or a sense of hearing which they themselves could never muster . |
| 13 | Oh you 'd know it if you lived next door to . |
| 14 | I would know it if you told me . |
| 15 | Would you know it if you saw it ? |
| 16 | How would know it if I brought a jar full into the room ? |
| 17 | Trotter was at the door , opening it before they reached the porch . |
| 18 | He would need it when he made his escape . |
| 19 | But for the framework , she no more feared nor doubted it than she did the position of the stars in the sky . |
| 20 | In the chemistry I did you seem to me to be terribly empirical , you had an inorganic substance and you had to learn absolute by heart what it did if you put it in water and you heated it and you did this that and the other . |
| 21 | The result was that sometimes members of the family or others who went to her for help came away empty-handed , however great their needs or deserts might be ; Addy never used need as a yardstick But on the other side of the medal were the occasions , such as this one , when she volunteered something you 'd never have dreamed of asking for , and you were free to accept it because you knew she 'd be disappointed , not relieved , if you refused . |
| 22 | She still did n't catch it when they told her . |
| 23 | Why would you need to write it if you 'd had the journey ? |
| 24 | Gerry Addams is a man who supports the murder campaign by the I R A terrorists , always defends it and he did n't condemn the killing of the protestants on the Shankhill Road by that I R A man , he carried that I R A man 's body at the funeral , what he said was it was unfortunate that innocent people were killed . |
| 25 | I entered it because I thought it would increase my confidence ; once you 've walked down a catwalk in a swimsuit , you can face most things . |
| 26 | I was gon na buy it but I thought no , it ai n't worth it |
| 27 | That 's right , I did buy it but I forgot to collect it , that was what |
| 28 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 29 | Er they had a lock , made it a good lock and sent it to all the clients and this is what we can supply , and it used to meet the needs of clients and they 'd er they 'd erm buy it and it kept them in business , you see what I mean ? |
| 30 | Once he nearly caught it but someone pushed him out of the way at the last moment . |