Example sentences of "[vb infin] it " in BNC.
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| 31 | You do n't need to unless you want to , include it . |
| 32 | He remembered the gate at the end of the track , had time to hope it was open because he did n't think Conker could jump it . |
| 33 | Where a statutory authority is under a mandatory obligation to supply a service , whether with a saving or nuisance clause ( that nothing shall exonerate it from proceedings for nuisance ) or whether without such a clause , the authority is under no liability for anything expressly required by statute to be done , or reasonably incidental to that requirement , if it was done without negligence . |
| 34 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 35 | I did not know it was possible for foie gras to be tasteless , but the complete omission of seasoning certainly showed I was wrong . |
| 36 | Tall , lazily handsome , and boy did he know it ! |
| 37 | ‘ They will never believe this — they will know it was extorted . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ To avoid the strath — they must know it is all ours. , ‘ Then who is the big-wig ? |
| 39 | Descartes , so the story goes , reached this conception because , unlike his predecessors , the Aristotelians , he was obsessed by epistemological questions — that is , questions about what we can know and how we can know it . |
| 40 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 41 | I remember my father giving me specific advice on just how he climbed the crux section of the corner crack above ; ‘ When you get to the steep bit — you 'll know it when you get there — just face right and use the square cut holds on the edge . |
| 42 | He says he did not know it had been . |
| 43 | Well , Mr Patten will do his best to make a silk purse out of a sow 's ear , and the audience will know it was not his idea . |
| 44 | Despite his airforce fatigues ( he has a pilot 's licence ) and handlebar moustache ( he is a cult on the military base circuit ) his feet never leave the ground : but close your eyes and you 'd never know it . |
| 45 | ALTHOUGH you would never know it , a new range of Porsches has gone on sale in Britain to replace the rear-engined 911 , the longest-lived sports car in the world . |
| 46 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 47 | I did n't know it then but I was receiving subliminal training for later business life . |
| 48 | I did n't know it was you . |
| 49 | If she knew it , green and uncouth as she was , Pertwee would know it also . |
| 50 | Everyone in this room but Burden and himself might know it . |
| 51 | You may not know it , but I have n't had a thing to eat since eight o'clock and it 's half-past two now . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ Then how did you know it was a river stone that killed him ? ’ |
| 53 | ‘ It 's amazing how much you need to know , and you ca n't know it all . |
| 54 | I do not know if it was the first time since his appointment as executive chef at the Carlton Tower in 1968 , but I do know it was a rare occurrence to see him even emerge from his kitchen , let alone dine . |
| 55 | You wo n't know it in 2000 |
| 56 | For example , although they do not know it yet , EC taxpayers will probably end up paying $580m on a cut-price sale of 200,000 tonnes of butter to the Soviet Union which is currently being completed . |
| 57 | Acting in line with his belief that ‘ the people who are closest to the work really do know it better ’ , Mr Welch came up two years ago with an anti-bureaucratic device called ‘ the work-out . ’ |
| 58 | Did you know I feel that if I thought ( and if you ever did , I should know it as soon as the thought had crossed your brain ) you doubted my perfect love , truth , sincerity and striving for goodness , I must indeed give up all the good I have gained , and gain daily , by your love and mine . |
| 59 | He was not saying merely that you believed it , but that you could know it as certainty ! |
| 60 | Do you know it ? ’ |