Example sentences of "[vb base] [subord] it [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sections is present to identify those environments with which the process might deadlock ( i.e. stop because it can not agree any communication with the environment ) . |
| 2 | it wo n't , you know if it wo n't cos we 'd have to have a new one then would n't we ? |
| 3 | Yes : ‘ I wonder if it might not be helpful to make clear to a lay reader what precisely the connection was between Socrates and Plato . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I wonder if it would n't have been better if the Almighty had created us all as — well — as sort of plants . |
| 5 | ‘ But , er , I wonder if it would n't be more sensible to — ’ |
| 6 | Their justification for doing it is that it 's for this thing , this painting or whatever , and I always wonder if it could n't be more without all that . ’ |
| 7 | And it came home to me that you know we all had to come to terms in some way with erm with what it was all about and the kids and you know and it became something of a I mean i it was the experience that we went through you know it was i it was you know something that we 'll always remember I think because it 'll always make Christmas different I think for us in a way you know but it And when they came up from South Wales with car loads and van loads and I mean we all just sobbed you know I mean there was nothing to do really you know it was just and I think anyway that was Christmas , but I mean er . |
| 8 | Erm I just wonder whether it might not have been better to move round a little bit to the left so we could have seen the lady 's hand and sa as well er er and as well as her face , you know , we 've got ta get we can see what she 's doing , know what she 's doing but it 'd been nice if you could have included her hands . |
| 9 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 10 | in P P G twelve about the guidance the structure plan should provide to a local planner , and put my cards on the table , wonder whether it would n't actually be more to say if York can only provide thirty three hectares , that should be the provision first in York ? |
| 11 | A E R , see cos it ca n't be Iowa ! |