Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 2 | She said ‘ You must work faster or it wo n't do ! ’ |
| 3 | Or it wo n't stand my weight , Wexford thought , alarmed . |
| 4 | In the past , psychologists have even claimed that ‘ the world will be saved by the psychologists , or it wo n't be saved at all ’ ( Maslow quoted in Pečjak 1985 : 268 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Here , let me pull the paper off now that you 've undone the ribbon and tape , or it wo n't feel as if it 's really for me . ’ |
| 6 | Er , this will obviously stop people driving on the wrong side of the road but it certainly wo n't or it wo n't prevent the excessive use of this service road which is very narrow indeed . |
| 7 | Well do n't squeeze your nose for the second time or it wo n't come that 's better that 's it . |
| 8 | This base can be the rear seat rail , or another rail fitted above the seat , but if so , no more than 2in above the seat or it would also need to be curved to avoid discomfort . |
| 9 | Mr Jack Adams , chairman of the union side , said that action would have to take place within a 28-day period from yesterday 's anouncement or it would be ruled out of order . |
| 10 | Still , 209 all out seemed a fair performance by England , or it would have done had more of their batsmen scored some runs . |
| 11 | It had to keep accelerating or it would drop out of the sky . |
| 12 | They believe that reality ‘ points beyond itself ’ in the sort of way that the pile of books points beyond itself , in that we know something must be holding it up or it would fall . |
| 13 | Something had to be done soon or it would be too late . |
| 14 | Riding 's fun , certainly — or it would be , if I could sometimes go alone . |
| 15 | Patrick now inspected it closely and said , ‘ One must be heavier than the other or it would n't fall down ’ . |
| 16 | And then I was thirty , and I thought that I would have to start specialising or it would be too late … ’ . |
| 17 | When one man with a tiny congregation has the cure of 13,000 souls , it is a joke , or it would be if it were not so sad . |
| 18 | With a few possible exceptions , it is not worthwhile stocking up with other components in large numbers because it would either be too costly , or it would take years to use them all up . |
| 19 | There has to be an incredible amount of subtlety or it would be nonsense . ’ |
| 20 | In South Antrim , the constituency of the present writer , no satisfaction was received on the matter until an exasperated meeting of my own constituency party presented the Westite Official Unionists with an ultimatum that either ‘ UUUC ’ appear on the literature and posters of their candidate or it would present its own rival one . |
| 21 | the movement had to discuss the ultimate and logical outcome of political action or it would be adding to confusion . |
| 22 | He repeated his uncle 's announcement and added peremptorily that swift compliance was required or it would be the worse for Gilsland . |
| 23 | By 1989 fund-raising and the general economy were at such a position that a ‘ Go ’ decision was either to be made , or it would never happen . |
| 24 | A really deep border makes a stunning finish to a little summer dress , a spotless white collar for a dark dress , or you could use the idea for a richly decorated yoke , the edge of a stole or shawl , or it would be lovely all round a simple triangle of plain knitting . |
| 25 | Burton 's Welsh and hungry and visceral sense that everything had to be grabbed or it would be lost forever would be reinforced at this critical stage in his life by the fatalistically hedonistic mood which infected so many . |
| 26 | Now although the law may be extremely complex it also aims for clarity in its pronouncements or it would fail to work . |
| 27 | That is not to say that they do not have particularities , for a particular instance of a shirt has to be of a certain colour , and have pockets or not , or it would not be a shirt . |
| 28 | Erm the caravan sites act nineteen sixty eight er , paragraph fifteen did actually , I think address the provision government sites quite well , or it would have if it had actually been properly implemented in that there was a carrot and stick , there was stick or requirement |
| 29 | Either Doctor Who would be drama , or it would be adventure . |
| 30 | Above all territory must be effectively occupied or it would fall to the partisans ; this kept French troops from the battlefield . |