Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] [vb infin] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's better to get comfortable with the approach in a situation where you are confident , like a weekly meeting , than suddenly to try and implement it when you are in a more testing situation , like an important sales presentation . |
| 2 | I think it 's a good time to spend in the garden to be honest , I mean you ca n't , you ca n't , it 's not really long enough to try and do it at weekends , not if he wants to move that garage back , it 'll probably take the best part of the week to sort that out |
| 3 | He wants the party to stop running the country , but merely to inspire and guide it . |
| 4 | But erm it 's all time and it 's erm , you know you do n't know until the day what you 've got , you can only hope and pray it 's there and erm go to the show , enjoy it and erm if there 's a trophy — very nice , then you can enjoy that as well . |
| 5 | It is a skilled sport , best done by people who understand and admire their quarry and are fit enough to pursue and outwit it . |
| 6 | Erm you , you never really sort of er he said he 'd got a bit of paper somewhere and he could perhaps go and find it and you said , you know , sort of no not now erm but having done that you never , you never , not now erm but having done that you never , you never , I |
| 7 | Better go and watch it and see the form . |
| 8 | I 'd better go and get it straight . |
| 9 | Oh , she 'd better go and get it . |
| 10 | Realizing he was too far away to save his prized possession , the governor could only stand and watch it fall , speechless with anger . |
| 11 | That evening Clive could only grin and bear it , but when I told him I would n't be able to do the second summer course he was distinctly cool . |
| 12 | He uses another shabby character , Tigg , to do his scrounging for him , he himself being ‘ of too haughty a stomach to work , to beg , to borrow , or steal ; yet mean enough to be worked or borrowed , begged or stolen for , by any catspaw that would serve his turn ; too insolent to lick the hand that fed him in his need , yet cur enough to bite and tear it in the dark ’ . |
| 13 | Is Paul saying , now you are a Christian , you may be in a dead-end job , but you 'd better grin and bear it ? |
| 14 | We can only pray and hope it 'll turn out for the best . ’ |
| 15 | Mum Mum Eleanor think you better come and get it . |
| 16 | Get an upholsterer just to come and tidy it up |
| 17 | ‘ Let's just try and forget it . ’ |
| 18 | They would never bother to check whether it was really theirs — they 'd just try and hit it . |
| 19 | ‘ Now , I want you both to just relax and take it easy , ’ she told them with a warm smile . |
| 20 | The minimum this required was that Galileo should be warned that a heliostatic universe had been found formally heretical and that he must no longer hold or defend it . |
| 21 | Words articulate our experience of things , they do not just express or reflect it ; they give form to what , without language and other sign-systems , would merely be a chaotic and undifferentiated jumble of ideas ; instead of things determining the meaning of words , words determine the meaning of things . |
| 22 | I 'll just go and fetch it . ’ |
| 23 | Yeah , I 'll just come and get it . |
| 24 | Well it automatically comes on you see it it 's all frozen at the moment it will probably shoot out itself I did try it once to try and pull it out but , I think |
| 25 | Alright , it may be there fault , but what happens if he fucking get out of control or then I can I always try and do it now , if somebody wants to act like a cunt , let them ! |
| 26 | If the West Bank could absorb them , these refugees might conceivably settle and call it home . |
| 27 | Oh , I do n't think you could clearly dichotomize and say it was one thing or the other . |
| 28 | There should be time not only to carry out the patient care but also to discuss and evaluate it . |
| 29 | He 'll probably try and wrestle it away from me but |
| 30 | I 'll probably go and see it on my own . |