Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It make take several weeks before you win — but you will , I am sure , eventually be victorious . |
| 2 | CLAUDIUS : With all my heart , and it doth content me To hear him so inclined . |
| 3 | The skull with the lead in it doth weigh thirty pounds and sixe ounces , which with the neck-bone , and some other bones ( in like manner full of lead ) are reserued , and kept in a little chest in the said Church , neare to the place where the corps were found ; there to bee showne to strangers as reliques of admiration . |
| 4 | It let go of Delaney , screaming and clawing at its hooded eyes , as the spray added layer upon layer of foam . |
| 5 | It sidestepped nervously , reared , and the slave leading it let go of the rein . |
| 6 | aspect of it has got ta |
| 7 | Such information was not highly ‘ theoretical ’ but it helped build up an objective picture of the people who went to the theatres I studied and gave me a useful corrective to people who made sweeping generalizations such as ‘ the theatre is for everyone . ’ |
| 8 | Where it did occur , it helped improve project design and correct local misconceptions of investments and their impact , " the report says . |
| 9 | If liberalism was a spent political force in Britain by 1930 , the kind of social survey to which it helped give rise was not . |
| 10 | It helped make up the minds of waverers on the question of independence and it sent a signal about Serbian intentions to the outside world . |
| 11 | She says ‘ It helped make my mother and I more independent so , I suppose it was a good thing . ’ |
| 12 | It helped make the government conscious of some of the preoccupations of nobility and townsmen , but when its proceedings were interrupted by the Turkish War , Catherine allowed the experiment to lapse . |
| 13 | It helped make the artist 's name and was bought in 1912 by the poet Hugo von Hoffmannsthal with the money he made from writing the libretto to Richard Strauss 's Der Rosenkavalier . |
| 14 | At the time , I felt it was no bad thing , for it helped intensify that curious brooding quality which is such an important element in so many tropical landscapes , and especially those of Polynesia . |
| 15 | Even professional men , it seems , would dabble in a bit of commerce if it helped pay the bills . |
| 16 | During the war years , it helped keep our spirits up and we need it again now . |
| 17 | Although the F B I thought this another delaying tactic , it helped persuade them that mass suicide was unlikely , and that it was therefore safe to force a conclusion . |
| 18 | Passing over more innovative authors such as Lawrence Durrell or William Golding , it helped establish a sort of myth of the 1950s , to the effect that the complexities and indulgences of modernism had been sensibly rejected in favour of a thoroughgoing return to traditional , realist style , and to the true subject of the novel , class and social relations . |
| 19 | ‘ Then maybe you were supposed to cry over milk , because it helped preserve it , or made it easier to turn into cheese . |
| 20 | As was pointed out earlier , it responded to popular taste , observing new taboos about racism and sexism , just as it helped demolish old ones of sexual modesty and obscene language . |
| 21 | Incidentally , much of its work was done in support of the Citizens ' Advice Bureaux , erm , in which it helped develop er , computer applications , and also it had the courage to organise a major AIDS conference . |
| 22 | This was no more than a gesture but it helped sustain the morale of the Belgians . |
| 23 | you can then make it do work for you ? |
| 24 | He bit the dog 's ear until it let go but the terrier , called Dylan , then turned on Jimmy , causing arm and leg wounds . |
| 25 | They use it to help prepare themselves for the interview — i.e. to get to know you a bit before you arrive and work out the questions they are going to ask you . |
| 26 | I know she 's doing it to help forget about Masklin but no good will come of it , you mark my words . |
| 27 | He won the car in a competition when he was 12 , and is selling it to help pay for his further education . |
| 28 | Buy a metal bulb planting tool while you 're at it to help take the frustration out of planting into the grass . |
| 29 | Many depend upon it to help implement their action for the environment . |
| 30 | what about these other things that are in the air , does it clean clean them up as well ? |