Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adj] [conj] [vb base] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd said that if I was asked about it , I should act surprised and say it was nothing to do with me . |
| 2 | This is — I suppose we ca n't do other than let it happen . ’ |
| 3 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
| 4 | Now Saint Marcus had to put all that lot together to make it look right and make it make sense , with hindsight , bringing all the important pieces together . |
| 5 | But it was true , what Jim said , in business you ca n't stand still , you go up or you go down , you ca n't just sit comfortably in your own 1972 executive four-bedroomed plate-glass-windowed centrally heated wall-to-wall-carpeted gadget-equipped house , with your Rover and your wife 's Mini in the two-car garage , and your pot plants in your loggia , and your electric lawn mower in the shed : you ca n't sit still and enjoy it , you ca n't call it a day and call a halt when you own it all and do n't owe anyone a penny , you have to go on and on , relentlessly onwards , juggling with larger and larger sums , owing more , paying out more , until finally perhaps the whole thing comes tumbling round your head like a pack of cards . |