Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [conj] [vb infin] it " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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
3 Better go and watch it and see the form .
4 I 'd better go and get it straight .
5 Oh , she 'd better go and get it .
6 Realizing he was too far away to save his prized possession , the governor could only stand and watch it fall , speechless with anger .
7 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 .
8 Is Paul saying , now you are a Christian , you may be in a dead-end job , but you 'd better grin and bear it ?
9 We can only pray and hope it 'll turn out for the best . ’
10 Mum Mum Eleanor think you better come and get it .
11 ‘ Let's just try and forget it . ’
12 They would never bother to check whether it was really theirs — they 'd just try and hit it .
13 ‘ Now , I want you both to just relax and take it easy , ’ she told them with a warm smile .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 I 'll just go and fetch it . ’
17 Yeah , I 'll just come and get it .
18 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 !
19 If the West Bank could absorb them , these refugees might conceivably settle and call it home .
20 Oh , I do n't think you could clearly dichotomize and say it was one thing or the other .
21 He 'll probably try and wrestle it away from me but
22 I 'll probably go and see it on my own .
23 If you were to read the box of the Polyfilter , you would probably smile and put it back on the shelf — do n't .
24 A joint press release states — ‘ A major new joint initiative from the two world governing bodies has been formulated , promoted by the recognition that bowls needs a marketing arm to properly develop and promote it as a major sport worldwide .
25 Some familiarity with the business also helps , without subscribing to the view that only health professionals can really understand and run it .
26 ‘ Do so and dear Uncle will simply laugh and put it down to my youthful impetuosity .
27 You can simply relax and let it all happen around you .
28 you know , if it 's got to be done , it 's got to be done , I wo n't worry about it , please ev , all I 'll say is , is , is can we please try and arrange it in advance , I 'd rather
29 Will you please try and act it out like we did the Twelfth Night the bit with Mrs , and see whether you can revive your idea of why Johnson , what is the nature of , of Johnson 's comic art .
30 You know , hardly get a go-round in the in the Dictionary of Quotations but at least you got the person there which is right , but in actual fact , how I might have treated that and I might what might have grabbed me a little bit more would have been the story which I would be looking for , I 'd be looking for my journalist to turn that into and therefore you might as well try and do it for us , because journalists like , like count on your labour , as I
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