Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] it [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know whereabouts it 's snapped . |
| 2 | Not so much the compromises , the deceits , the hypocrisies affecting his work , his women , his children , even his friends , but the sense of despair and failure hovering over him , as though he was trapped and did n't know how it had happened or what he should or could do . |
| 3 | He did n't know how it had happened , but Sarah was giving all her maternal love to the wrong child . |
| 4 | If we found an object such as a watch upon a heath , even if we did n't know how it had come into existence , its own precision and intricacy of design would force us to conclude that the watch must have had a maker : that there must have existed , at some time , and at some place or other , an artificer or artificers , who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction , and designed its use . |
| 5 | You do n't know where it 's gone . |
| 6 | If it is n't there now , I do n't know where it 's gone , Adam . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't know where it 's gone , ’ said Rincewind wearily . |
| 8 | Do you or you can say to her is I do n't know where it 's gone or it does n't work . |
| 9 | I do n't know where it 's gone . |
| 10 | But if you do n't know where it 's come from it really is n't as much use . |
| 11 | They do n't know where it 's come from , they have never have done and they never will . |
| 12 | Cos I do n't know where it has gone to . |
| 13 | An explorer who does not compile maps as he or she proceeds is likely to end up going round in circles ; likewise , a society that does not know where it has come from in the past has no chance of knowing where it is going in the future . |
| 14 | I do n't know why it had occurred to her to make this observation . |
| 15 | I do n't know why it 's changed at all . |
| 16 | In most common diseases of western society , we know more or less what has gone wrong , even if we do not know why it has gone wrong . |
| 17 | I wish they would move that because there 's nothing I can do now it 's gone over the fence . |
| 18 | And anot in a careers officer 's view the other day , that seeing as though they 'd worked there twenty years ago , they wanted to go back and see how it had changed . |
| 19 | Do you see , you see how it 's misted up again , well in the morning 's it 's absolutely murder ! |
| 20 | Later on in this chapter you will see how it has helped specific people in their lives , but first I would like to show how the technique can help some of the more common ailments that many people suffer today . |
| 21 | Loopy Lil stared round at the destruction with a look of hopelessness as though she did not understand how it had happened . |
| 22 | I ca n't understand how it 's happened . |
| 23 | He 'd lay it on as gently as he could , and when she came round she would n't even remember how it had happened . |
| 24 | Well I , I I , I do n't mind how it 's done but erm I hear nothing on the many people on , you know , who talk about erm giving aid erm a dread from this problem is this vast erm amount of the G M P and going on armaments and going on one way and another . |
| 25 | Do you s you can see where it 's indicated on the plan where topic area D thirty nine is ? |
| 26 | Well you can see where it 's stitched up the back , you can on Sharon 's |
| 27 | I ca n't understand why it 's cracked like that . |
| 28 | It does not always remember where it has buried each one . |
| 29 | She could n't really even remember when it had started . |
| 30 | Charles could see why it had appealed to Alex Household . |