Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I intend to see that it gets it . ’ |
| 2 | I tried to swallow and it hurt . |
| 3 | I expect to hear that it matches Dr Darnell 's fingernails . |
| 4 | I want to submit that it means that we do not go to the world with a watertight message which demands ‘ take it or leave it ’ . |
| 5 | There are a couple of things I want to do before it reaches us . ’ |
| 6 | ( 21 ) John has two PhDs +> I believe he has , and have adequate evidence that he has ( 22 ) Does your farm contain 400 acres ? +> I do n't know that it does , and I want to know if it does The first of these provides an explanation for " Moore 's paradox " , namely the unacceptability of utterances like ( 23 ) : ( 23 ) ? ? |
| 7 | I wait to hear if it stops . |
| 8 | In spite of all this secrecy , I happen to know that it takes the form of a humorous catalogue of my supposed states of mind , arranged from one to ten like the Beaufort Scale . |
| 9 | Now what we 're on about yeah as I were on about , that er what I do is , with days like this , cos you can never guarantee if they 're gon na be dry , wet or what , so I watch to see if it rains , if it do n't they 're virtually dry when I fetch them in . |
| 10 | I once garnered a useful titbit about Indian life from a documentary about the highest balloon flight in the world because I happened to see that it took place in the centre of the Indian sub-continent where the air can be particularly still . |
| 11 | I decided to leave before it got dark , first thanking the Padre and his two Breton friends for their very kind hospitality . |
| 12 | I feared to find that it had changed , as many had told me , beyond recognition . |
| 13 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 14 | It is a straight-down-the-middle view of the work , and given the number of rough edges I have to wonder whether it has anything more to offer than a dozen more successfully recorded alternatives . |
| 15 | ‘ I have to believe that it comes from angels , or spirit beings . ’ |
| 16 | The argument became heated when I refused to agree that it did not matter if the document was authentic or not . |
| 17 | I 've used a balloon in Africa but you tend to go where it wants ! |
| 18 | So poems are elusive because you get the idea that actually working out your idea so it comes down on paper and it looks like a good poem and it says what you want to say and it does n't spoil the effect etcetera so you 've really captured your poem . |
| 19 | Go on , Jungle , it 's Sunday , knock it off , you want to shout as it rattles on 24 hrs per day . |
| 20 | She tried to laugh but it cracked . |
| 21 | Britain should therefore not hesitate to use whatever powers and diplomatic skills she possesses to ensure that it does not come about . |
| 22 | Eleanor , ’ she said again , as she began to realise that it made a lot of sense . |
| 23 | Clara was not at all sure what a gallery was , but from the conversation she managed to deduce that it dealt in paintings , and unlike the Tate and the National Gallery , dealt commercially . |
| 24 | Nor had she ever seen such a dress on anyone over the age of thirty , but seeing it , she had to admit that it did not even look bizarre : it was a pale purple smock , waistless and bustless , with long , much-buttoned sleeves , and yet it managed to give only the faintest , most delicate air of Bohemia . |
| 25 | The divide in English studies seems to be between those who want to bring the rift out into the open , and those who prefer to pretend that it does n't exist . |
| 26 | ‘ To keep the whole thing in the right perspective , you have to remember that it does n't necessarily matter what a manager decides , the service that the resident receives is actually given by the care assistant . |
| 27 | I ca n't remember how you get there , I ca n't remember how cards is how many cards it is , but you get loads of cards , with with pictures of different things you have to kiss and it ranges from the hand at one point , navel six points , bottom seven , lips eight points , cheek three points , erm the chest fifteen points and there 's a fig leaf one fig leaf bud in there , fifteen points and you can kiss anything you like . |
| 28 | if you like so it pinches the two positive charges off the hydrogen cos in these equations the charges must must balance as well so that if you just cross the double positive out you need to you ca n't write it in but you need to remember that it wants to become a double positive given |
| 29 | However , once the licence to sink an exploratory well was awarded to the Hamilton Oil Company , we tried to ensure that it honoured the conditions attached to the licence , prepared an adequate oil spill contingency plan and designed an operational programme which minimised the risks to the environment . |
| 30 | " The judge asked how we could possibly do any more with the garden , and it 's true that the only way forward is by making small changes , which we like to do as it gives us so much enjoyment . " |