Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [to-vb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no such state of affairs exists in our culture , and it is self-delusory and damaging to pretend that it does . |
| 2 | Asked to explain why he had burst into the bedroom of his landlady 's attractive teenage daughter , Tom away the towel with which she was drying herself and started a close fingertip search of her backside , Berkas explained that he had left a valuable foreign stamp soaking in the bath and returned to find that it had disappeared . |
| 3 | Every time the Government does a bit and waits to see if it works , by the time it finds out that it has n't done , it needs to do still more . |
| 4 | Continue to bounce the Squig Hopper and continue to attack until it fails to land on a model . |
| 5 | We said everything should be examined and questioned to see whether it needed to be done at all . |
| 6 | He began to imagine how he would run the wires under the carpet , and had to stop before it became too real . |
| 7 | She felt even sorrier for him with that stammer when he went up to read the first lesson , and had to announce that it came from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy , a word which took him four goes . |
| 8 | In fact , the long range future of our hobby demands that we recognise this compatibility and work to prove that it exists . ’ |
| 9 | Berthon was livid at one of his cars being butchered but had to acknowledge that it handled better . |
| 10 | Merton 's interpretation of Mannheim 's project ; as doomed to fail while it continued not to differentiate between scientific and other types of knowledge , was probably very influential . |