Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [modal v] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 2 | Labour adopts a dogmatic approach to the rents-to-mortgages scheme , as it did to the right to buy and will abandon it in the same way . |
| 3 | This will meet and let's put it into context thousand pounds per district but Mr will put the money into production obviously and I think there 's something talk about traffic economy road balance . |
| 4 | This was an ambitious objective , but it was 1971 and Robert McNamara had been President of the World Bank for three years , long enough to begin to realize his goal of a leap forward in Bank lending that would take it from $1.1 billion in 1967 to $11.4 billion in 1980 , his last year in office . |
| 5 | Inside her she felt a power she could never manage to express ; it was trapped inside her like water under the ground and she was the only one with the dowser 's twigs who knew where it lay and could bring it to the surface . |
| 6 | Indeed it did , to anybody who remembered or could visual-ise it as a busy dock . |
| 7 | And how was it to be achieved — was there agreement about it within the leadership and the wider society , and did a political agency exist that could bring it into being ? |
| 8 | In Chester one shop had one copy left and would save it for me if I could get there that afternoon . |