Example sentences of "and [vb base] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually Frankie and I were called in by Mum and told to get a wash and change as it was nearly time to go . |
| 2 | Mystics are aware that their experience can never be explained in rational terms and insist that it is unhelpful and can even be dangerous to attempt to define the ultimate reality in terms of reason and logic . |
| 3 | We have to examine the reasons for and against the directive and judge whether it is justified in order to decide whether its mistake , if it is not justified , is large or small . |
| 4 | So if you buy when the trust is on an offer basis and sell when it is on a bid basis , you will suffer an effective charge of the full spread . |
| 5 | ‘ You all know , ’ Jeremiah went on , ‘ that under the terms of the trust that we are required to manage the land and sell when it 's no longer profitable . |
| 6 | Remove the skin and white pith and eat as it is for a simple , refreshing dessert . |
| 7 | Erm er a it 's , it 's almost an abstract , it 's a , you know , if , if one would accept that as an abstract and forget that it 's a portrait then it 's perhaps works a little better . |
| 8 | Hell , forgive and forget because it 's all in a good cause . |
| 9 | Of course you might want to take a very purist line and say that it is bad manners to remind others of their bad manners . |
| 10 | I have suggested that singing is a good analogy for the discovery and use of the light principle ; I would go one step further and say that it is a literal example of this process . |
| 11 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 12 | Hunting is very complicated and most people do not know about hunting or how it is done so they do n't like it and say that it is cruel . |
| 13 | I can now speak from experience and say that it 's much easier to spend a day at the office than it is to spend a day at home , and you have the benefit of spending ‘ quality time ’ with your baby at evenings and weekends . |
| 14 | I must be absolutely honest though and say that it 's not always going to be easy to try to live for Jesus at school . |
| 15 | I think it would only become an event if parish councils do something which people took exception to and say that it 's |
| 16 | I go down and say that it 's not good enough . |
| 17 | I 'd like to move a petition containing seven hundred and twelve signatures , residents of Broadstone who request the installation of a pedestrian crossing on Broadstone Lane , bottom end of Shakespeare Drive and propose that it is passed on to the environment committee for consideration . |
| 18 | Please continue to view your progress in the mirror and realise that it is only one more day before you measure and weigh yourself to enter your reduced ( I hope ! ) statistics on the Weight and Inch Loss Record Chart . |
| 19 | We want to look at stress now , and realise that it is not all negative , in fact some people actually go out and seek a fair amount of stress . |
| 20 | Mind you , I am under few illusions : it is probably boredom in the short-term few months job I have found , and worry as it is , in real terms , a lot less than half my old salary . |
| 21 | Whereas before I used to say let's do this or that and worry if it was n't done , now I 've decided that I 'm really not going to worry about the garden any more . |
| 22 | Er , we had a breeders ' meeting in October which was I enjoy them very much , I enjoy the the talk because it 's the first chance I get during the year when I can sit down and listen and I do n't have to worry about them generally , in another club , I do n't have to worry about minutes or anything , I just sit and listen and it 's great it , I really enjoy that . |
| 23 | The piece then challenges these emotional inheritances , and show that it is possible to go beyond them . |
| 24 | ( i ) Derive the equation of motion for the ring and show that it is independent of the cross-section of the wire . |
| 25 | We now describe A 's optimal response to B t 's behaviour and show that it is optimal for A to use the simple form of strategy first postulated . |
| 26 | We shall maintain the assumption that expectations are rational , and show that it is not this assumption per se which leads to the ineffectiveness of systematic stabilization policy but its combination with ( inter alia ) the assumption of price flexibility . |
| 27 | The limestone sculpture ( fig. 36 ) is covered with paint , but other marbles preserve much colour and show that it was more selectively applied , the skin being left in the bare marble , the texture of which can be sensed also through the colour . |
| 28 | The Department of Transport 's reply to my letter ( 12 March ) seems to have missed the general point I am making from this specific case , namely that travellers normally choose their mode of transport on the basis of perceived marginal costs ( ie the cost of petrol ) and conclude that it is a lot cheaper to use a car if you already have one . |
| 29 | They were , indeed , a sorry and sadly bedraggled lot , so covered in diesel and smoke that it was quite impossible to discriminate among them on the basis of age , sex or nationality . |
| 30 | This problem is not so common with the bell and pad as it is the alarm doing the waking of the child and the child is already wet . |