Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true of course that the device could potentially backfire : having equipped this Tribunal with so much power , it might begin to use it and impose demands on the executive which exceed those which the courts would demand . |
| 2 | But once a cream or lotion has been opened and there 's air in the container , it 'll start to lose it 's effect after about six months . |
| 3 | As I have indicated on page 48 , there are a lot of other things an agency can or might do for you , and lots of departments it could have to do it . |
| 4 | When this was unsuccessful it would look around the cage where there was a long stick and suddenly it would decide to use it to rake in the fruit . |
| 5 | It would hurt to do it , to be without him , but she would have to if this went on too long , or he would destroy her emotionally , because she would have nothing left when he did finally tire of her . |
| 6 | If so , it would have to do it without Kinnock , and at the risk of alienating Scots and Welsh Unionists who still vote Labour because they think economic and social matters more important than constitutional reform . |
| 7 | That a court should take account of such a rule would [ and should ] not mean that it would have to accept it . |
| 8 | It follows , I believe , that if the GMC was given responsibility in this area it would have to exercise it comprehensively , in an enormous number of areas of both conventional and unorthodox practice . |
| 9 | ‘ All right , ’ he grudged , contemplating the hour it would take to drive it there . |
| 10 | It takes imagination and a lot of practice to read a play to yourself in the same time as it would take to see it on the stage . |
| 11 | If the air-flow at a valve is downwards , it will open to admit it ; if upwards , it will close to entrap it and if it is horizontal from any direction the flap will tilt to allow it through at an angle , gaining aerofoil-type lift from it . |
| 12 | When the area of tension stresses ahead of the crack tip reaches the interface , it will try to open it by pulling the two sides apart . |
| 13 | If the air-flow at a valve is downwards , it will open to admit it ; if upwards , it will close to entrap it and if it is horizontal from any direction the flap will tilt to allow it through at an angle , gaining aerofoil-type lift from it . |
| 14 | It will help to talk it out . ’ |
| 15 | If you make a few small holes in the container , it will help to ventilate it and allow small animals to get in . |
| 16 | Although Russia , along with the Ukraine and Belorussia , opposes this plan , there is little it can do to stop it . |