Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [subord] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of his poems had been published , he said , in The New Yorker by Howard Moss , the Poetry Editor , who — though I did not know it until Dana told me later — was a well-known homosexual . |
| 2 | I ca n't buy it cos Gary 's gone up . |
| 3 | Forgiving sin since Christ has died , forgiving sin is easy but it was , yet , it was the hardest thing that God could do because he could only do it when Christ died for us . |
| 4 | Give me a few days and I 'll do it when Stephen goes to New York . ’ |
| 5 | No , it did n't do it until Claire took it out . |
| 6 | McKenzie , however , will only believe it when cheques displaying that elusive , extra figure are deposited in his bank account . |
| 7 | As had happened the day before , the time simply flew for Fabia , so that she could again hardly believe it when Ven told her that they would take the funicular a little way down the hill to a restaurant where they would have lunch . |
| 8 | Jean , 39 , said : ‘ I could n't believe it when Bonnie ate the money . |
| 9 | They could hardly believe it when Mum said it was tea-time . |
| 10 | I asked to come to Grendon , I did n't like it when i got here , it took a lot of getting used |
| 11 | I do n't like it when people take monies from people and forget or pretend that we are the faceless people . |
| 12 | The trainspotter is lucky , and I do n't like it when people scorn him . |
| 13 | I do n't like it when people shout . |
| 14 | She did n't like it when Dot slipped in unseen and with Mr Brown gone off to college , she had n't so many people who would listen to her . |
| 15 | She would n't like it if people knew what she was and she did n't know anything about them . |
| 16 | well you should n't you should use your own , that 's Beth 's , you would n't like it if Beth pinched yours would you ? eh ? ooh , you scratched mummy last night , look there |
| 17 | She was trembling , aflame with a happiness so great she thought she could never contain it as Rune discarded his own clothes with such rapidity and lack of care that two shirt buttons fell unheeded on to the carpet . |
| 18 | She knew right then that she could not face it if Alain married someone else . |
| 19 | ‘ If a person pays money , which he is not bound to pay , under the compulsion of urgent and pressing necessity or of seizure , actual or threatened , of his goods he can recover it as money had and received . |
| 20 | If a person pays money , which he is not bound to pay , under the compulsion of urgent and pressing necessity or of seizure , actual or threatened , of his goods he can recover it as money had and received . |
| 21 | But Rosemary would hate it if word had got out , and was going around , that she and her husband had split up . |
| 22 | I 'd hate it if Pickles changes her mind and you thought I 'd prejudiced her against you . ’ |
| 23 | If you do n't want it Kirsty 'll have it cos Kirsty wants do n't you Kirst ? |
| 24 | I give it to my husband so that I ca n't sell it if money gets low ’ . |
| 25 | I give it to my husband so that I ca n't sell it if money gets low ’ . |
| 26 | so it 's all hot on the plate and served straight away you know , luckily erm I managed it but I got in a little bit of a flap I will admit it whereas Shirl 's now got used to that I mean I when we first came we both used to do our own help each other out I used to help out but erm |
| 27 | I could hardly credit it when Carole said we were on a cushy number ; she 'd spent whole days hacking down rhododendrons and that was really back-breaking work . |
| 28 | He just ca n't stand it if things do n't work . |
| 29 | I 'd prefer it if Laverne watched TV . ’ |
| 30 | She knew that Faye had issued the invitation to Tom as a deliberate part of her campaign to bring the two of them together , and somehow she had to summon the courage today … or soon … to tell her patient that it just was n't working , it was pointless , and she would prefer it if Faye gave up the idea . |