Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've used a balloon in Africa but you tend to go where it wants ! |
| 2 | Why do they have to go where it says : Danger ? ’ |
| 3 | Also perhaps you could inform me if it is possible to run the 14k MSDOS in the upper memory , or does it have to remain where it is . |
| 4 | I had to find where it was . |
| 5 | Unless there is dire reason to attempt its destruction , Castle Drachenfels must be left to stand where it is. |
| 6 | Ages seemed to pass although it was only moments , until a pollen-laden grass flower tickled his nose and he sneezed himself back to life again . |
| 7 | But technology and global competition will eventually put more people to work than it makes redundant |
| 8 | In fact social life in the evenings will be easier in every way for him to find than it is for a widow , who can not go out alone at night without some feeling of apprehension , and who would generally anyway feel out of place sitting on her own in a saloon bar . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've seen all his films except Do Me A Favour ! which funnily enough I 've never managed to catch although it 's on TV all the time . |
| 10 | This latter tradition remained geographically confined to the Far East and continued to flourish until it was gradually replaced , from the eighteenth century AD , by Western-style coinage . |
| 11 | But in 1981 I tried to go further and identify a set of criteria which any proposed biochemical or cellular correspondent of memory formation would have to meet if it was to be regarded as a candidate memory process . |
| 12 | You may be right , but your cynicism would be easier to accept if it was universally applied . |
| 13 | Mr Ashdown reaffirmed his willingness to be flexible and to compromise if it came to negotiating with a minority government of either hue . |
| 14 | But then again , how is the individual management to know if it happens to be one of those which ought to acknowledge a responsibility to maintain or lower prices , or whether it is one of the lucky ones which can be let off that responsibility ? |
| 15 | How were we to know if it was God 's will ? |
| 16 | Q I would like to know if it is possible to join two tanks of 36″ x 15″ x 12″ to make a single 72″ x 15″ x 12″ tank . |
| 17 | His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days . |
| 18 | Women who I had attacked for bringing up boy children wanted to know if it had been an immaculate conception or simply parthenogenesis , and what was I going to do with it if it were a boy ? |
| 19 | We 've never admitted involvement , neither has he , I want to know if it 's going to stay that way . |
| 20 | ‘ Because we want to know if it is in any way connected to the prince 's state visit . |
| 21 | My friend uses Pagemaker 4 and Windows Write and wants to know if it 's possible to get hold of Portuguese and German spell checkers to use with letters and documents created using Write . |
| 22 | But Silver called from the other boat , wanting to know if it was me . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't want any technical information ’ , I replied , ‘ I just need to know if it will still run on my ordinary PC with 640Kb memory ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ If a child ca n't see how it 's performing , ’ demanded Mr Stannard , ‘ how 's it to know if it 's doing well or not ? |
| 25 | One of the soldiers wanted to know if it was true that Medoc was preparing for the birth into the world of the monster god-idol , Crom Croich , and an argument sprang up as to whether Medoc and Crom Croich were the most evil and most powerful forces ever to come out of the Dark Ireland , or whether the Erl-King had been worse . |
| 26 | I have been given a large quantity of fabric and I would like to know if it would be suitable for painting in oils or acrylic . |
| 27 | We have an idea and we want to know if it will work . |
| 28 | Although she would dearly love to know if it was the norm for women to follow him home ! |
| 29 | As there was no building , tickets could not have been issued from there ; it would be interesting to know if it was possible to buy tickets to Stretford Bridge . |
| 30 | ‘ I told him we were thinking of putting someone on to the story , and needed to know if it was worth following up . |