Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [pron] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now admittedly , the T four bacterial is a very simple organism , it ca n't leap about so it does n't need senses or a brain to direct it , or muscles or anything like that , it ca n't repair itself or change itself once it 's been made , therefore it does n't need to digest food , er to , to have an immune system or anything like that to repair itself or put itself to rights , it does n't need anything like that . |
| 2 | or shock it till it shrieks no more . |
| 3 | Should she pick up the baby whenever it cries or leave it until it settles of its own accord ? |
| 4 | Find it if it exists , or prove it if it does n't . |
| 5 | Eliot observed how he would take a word ‘ and squeeze and squeeze it until it yielded a full juice of meaning which we would never suppose any word to possess ’ . |
| 6 | You get a lot of people who 'll tell you how to sing and play , and stop you because it sounds a bit out of tune , but he 'll say , ‘ No , there 's soul in there , even if it is slightly out of tune . |
| 7 | They seemed to smell the air and if a lone bird hove in sight , they 'd pick it up when it was no more than a speck and watch it till it disappeared , and everything about it would be important to them — the direction of its flight , the way it flew , its height above the water , and so on . |
| 8 | Maybe the day will come when Mark will ring me from the museum and tell me that it 's been decided that I must add to the catalogue the pedigree of the wrapping or package in question : Ice lolly wrapper ‘ Captain Marvel ’ , Walls , 1985 , found , Whitechapel Road , EC , condition : poor . |
| 9 | To her astonishment , Sally-Anne , who for two dreadful months had hardly been able to bring herself to be near any man , however young and apparently innocuous , wanted to stroke the corner of his mouth — more , she wanted to smooth the scar away — or , rather , since that was impossible , to run her hand down it and tell him that it did not matter , such a thing could only disturb those who were themselves already disturbed ! |
| 10 | Our collection of children 's books and toys grew with us and outgrew us until it dominated our lives . |
| 11 | er she bought these new leather shoes quite a while ago , but even they and they were the widest she could buy , but they needed stretching , so Joanne , Paul 's girlfriend , had got one of these shoe stretching things , you put it in and twist it and it goes up and up , well even that at it 's highest would n't , you know , at it 's furthest , well it was sticking out as far as it could go , even that was n't filling it , so she stuck a spud down the end of it |
| 12 | And you just put a drop in there , heated and leave it till it hardens and then sandpaper it down level . |
| 13 | Erm I wonder how substantially it 's going to re-written , first , in order to make it a response rather than an issue raising paper and ah , secondly , in the light of what we 've all had to say this evening and , if it is to be re-written I wonder erm who is going to actually see it and approve it before it goes off in time to get to the health authority by the day after tomorrow ? |
| 14 | ‘ You have to accept politics is an uncertain business and take it as it comes , ’ she said , adding firmly , ‘ I 'm quite sure he 's going to win . ’ |
| 15 | So I said I was tired of waiting for the money for my things and she can collect it from the students and have it when it came . |
| 16 | come up and insult you if it does n't bother you , you wo n't say a thing , but if it does bother you 'll come back and re say something back . |