Example sentences of "[verb] it [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Would you care to modify it if I tell you that we have reason to believe that you recognised Wetherby at dinner on Thursday night ? ’
2 Reggie loves it as I say my nephew bought me two
3 That 's it like a desk that 's really that that was the American way of spelling it but we spell it that way now .
4 ‘ He not only has it but he sent them to fetch it . ’
5 Originally a Roman colony , legend has it that it takes its name from the first lord of its castle Rufus , Marquis of Obertenghi , who had thick red hair , or , perhaps more romantically , that it is named after the sunset hues which turn the mountain here from a gentle rose to red each evening .
6 Basically it goes POING-POING-POING-POING a lot and you 'll know it when you hear it .
7 As you hint at in your letter , the musical ‘ anoraks ’ are often of the ‘ would n't know it if they heard it ’ variety anyway , and hate the thought of anyone having an intuition , or a touch or a sense of hearing which they themselves could never muster .
8 I would know it if you told me .
9 Would you know it if you saw it ?
10 He would need it when he made his escape .
11 Also , you think you deserve it or you think you 've earned it or you think you can afford it , and everyone began to act like that .
12 So they will be quite prepared to accept it when you say you are . "
13 The result was that sometimes members of the family or others who went to her for help came away empty-handed , however great their needs or deserts might be ; Addy never used need as a yardstick But on the other side of the medal were the occasions , such as this one , when she volunteered something you 'd never have dreamed of asking for , and you were free to accept it because you knew she 'd be disappointed , not relieved , if you refused .
14 She still did n't catch it when they told her .
15 I entered it because I thought it would increase my confidence ; once you 've walked down a catwalk in a swimsuit , you can face most things .
16 Er they had a lock , made it a good lock and sent it to all the clients and this is what we can supply , and it used to meet the needs of clients and they 'd er they 'd erm buy it and it kept them in business , you see what I mean ?
17 Once he nearly caught it but someone pushed him out of the way at the last moment .
18 Just that I caught it as I moved my finger .
19 Ca n't remember which one it is but I 'll recognise it when I hear it .
20 The story ‘ You 'll Enjoy It when You Get There ’ is an amusing expansion of a gaffe of her own at a ‘ trade banquet ’ ; but the central figure is a young girl deputizing for her mother .
21 we rehearsed it and we rehearsed it and I mean I did n't mind they were paying the bill for and I literally with a college took up residence for several days before it in a local hotel and we went through it in every fine detail
22 we rehearsed it and we rehearsed it and I mean I did n't mind they were paying the bill for and I literally with a college took up residence for several days before it in a local hotel and we went through it in every fine detail
23 No I think it was just , certainly Tom tried to lift us or because over the winter months when nothing was happening negotiations-wise , you know he knew if he did n't lift us then nothing would and everyone would get so disheartened they 'd just say oh sod it and back to work or forget it and what have you .
24 reported it and they send him out the flats .
25 Rather , they say it because they think it must be like that .
26 He rolled it between two fingers and tapped it on a thumbnail and generally fondled it as I knew he would for a good five minutes before lighting it .
27 We cook it as I say I mean but I do n't often go up the chip shop .
28 but I I acknowledge it as they come they can fire at me every sentence and I
29 ‘ Lotus built it and we marketed it . ’
30 built it and he built he had the Kirkwall Hotel , the Stenness Hotel and the Stromness Hotel and an hotel in in Shetland .
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