Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [to-vb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was a bit surprised , ’ said McNab , ‘ I did n't really know what to do when it flew in . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ COSE WANTS US TO JOIN BECAUSE IT COVETS OUR OBJECT INTEGRATION SOFTWARE , ’ DEC NOW BELIEVES |
| 3 | Trevor Pinnock ensures that the music keeps moving , and never allows us to forget that it conveys the emotional meaning of the words and is not , as some interpreters would have us believe , detached from all relevance except the purity of its own sound . |
| 4 | ‘ He thought the world of the shop , I could n't have told him to retire because it meant everything to him . |
| 5 | Leaf-roll sawfly This clever little beast is given a fair description and discussion in the answer to question number 52 on page 208 , which , with Figure 13 above , will enable you to spot that it has been on your plants . |
| 6 | You draw it to show that it has a mirror image so what you find in practice is that it and it 's mirror image are not superimposable . |
| 7 | Freud seems to be willing to put it this way , and then to want to insist again that it was an actual deed , otherwise the impact is immediately lost once we allow ourselves to think that it did not happen . |
| 8 | I hope this helps you to see that it does not matter at all whether that regression to his past life was factual or whether Barry 's subconscious had caused him to invent the whole thing in his imagination . |
| 9 | A diary helps you to reflect and it aids memory . |
| 10 | I mean , if anybody asks you to see if it 's gone through our books it has n't , but |
| 11 | Drama school is n't going to teach anybody to act but it does give the vital techniques with which to act and gives you a chance to make mistakes , experiment and find out about yourself . |
| 12 | Kate , pregnant with her second baby , thought she knew what to expect when it came to giving birth , especially since she 'd had a long labour first time round . |
| 13 | I therefore introduced the refinement of bending the infant whisker , by troubling the waters around the moment of its birth , and then simply allowing it to thicken until it broke , this was a little less clumsy but still highly unsatisfactory . |
| 14 | Broadly , we may say that industry will have to be far less rigid ; indeed much more flexible in adapting itself to change than it has been for the past twenty years . |
| 15 | And if any splodges onto fabric , just leave it to dry and it turns to dust — then you can rub it off in a second . |
| 16 | He hung his heavy axe and rubber-handled flashlight on nails hammered into the edge of a high shelf , then shrugged his jacket from his shoulders and left it to lie where it fell . |
| 17 | He would understand in detail the working of the mechanism of the clock , which enables it to function as it does . |
| 18 | ‘ You have nothing to lose if it does n't work , Mr Timms . |
| 19 | Because so many people so badly wanted it to succeed when it did they almost believed it was because they had willed it to . |
| 20 | If you use a videocassette recorder with this facility , check it to see if it has a socket you can plug a microphone into . |
| 21 | much better than backing it to win and it comes second . |
| 22 | ‘ If the method was copied , whoever did it intended us to think that it had been copied clumsily and stupidly . |