Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | St Bartholomew 's church at Covenham was declining to the state of danger when a parish in California asked if they might have it and ship it stone by stone to the U.S.A. This caused much controversy for a while but finally it was decided that it should remain and be safely maintained on its original consecrated site . |
| 2 | When the police asked if he would do it again Ninham admitted he would . |
| 3 | He just asked if he could hide it in the museum . |
| 4 | Some wag asked if he could prove it ! |
| 5 | So he asked if he could publish it on the morning of press day ; appearing in one paper in London would not undermine the American publicity . |
| 6 | I could hardly speak , I told him it was fantastic , he asked if I would do it again . |
| 7 | and either pay it all in one I asked if I could pay it do so much , you know so much a year |
| 8 | she asked if she might try it on — and several more . |
| 9 | ‘ Take it , ’ the woman had replied when Loretta asked if she could borrow it . |
| 10 | We 're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen , illustrated by Helen Oxenbury ( Walker Books , £9.95 ) Winner of the Smarties Award 1989 After one reading , Rosa gave this large format , handsome book her highest accolade ; she briskly wrote her name in the front and asked if she could take it to school ‘ to show Olga ’ , her favourite teacher . |
| 11 | How can you be sure what really happened unless you can rerun it in slo-mo ? |
| 12 | Are you up to it ? planned , but the election campaign started before we could publish it — Ed . |
| 13 | He reached for his desk phone and then swore as it rang before he could pick it up . |
| 14 | The bell rang before she could open it and Jenna stood just inside the sitting-room in her long housecoat , wondering who on earth it could be ; the post had arrived over an hour ago and she did n't know enough people to be expecting visitors . |
| 15 | We knew if you could catch it , it 'd be a great wave . ’ |
| 16 | They point to the triumphant end of the Psalm and suggest that Jesus was reciting the Psalm but died before he could finish it . |
| 17 | Rodney was a lecturer there and they cherished hopes of a chair for him but unfortunately Daddy died before he could wangle it . |
| 18 | Encounters such as this , the generosity of their friends , the friendship of artists and the Berkeleys ' belief in buying what they liked when they could afford it , gave the contents of the house its individuality . |
| 19 | He said that David was getting ready to tour America , but he did n't want normal rock and roll people — he wanted weird , crazy people to be his staff and he asked whether we 'd do it . |
| 20 | But , of course , Tony did n't like the song , so he asked whether I 'd do it , and that 's how I came to do the record . ’ |
| 21 | Jamie asked whether she could make it slightly later , giving him time to finish an essay that should have been completed during the summer vacation . |
| 22 | and she said if I could try it before oh , er |
| 23 | erm , no she said if I could try it |
| 24 | And afterwards he said if I 'd do it now and again just to keep the others on their toes , he 'd make up my wages . ’ |
| 25 | cos they 're not X directory if we can get hold of the number , er so she 's going to say to her could she do it any quicker and I said well the woman said if she could do it any quicker she would ring me , she asked for me phone number . |
| 26 | Well that failed as you would imagine it to fail if you take the civil war in Vietnam as being in effect a , a war of national liberation , as the Soviets called it , because what the North Vietnamese wanted was in fact national unity . |
| 27 | Well that failed as you would imagine it to fail if you take the civil war in Vietnam as being in effect a , a war of national liberation , as the Soviets called it , because what the North Vietnamese wanted was in fact national unity . |
| 28 | I mean , we heard that if we 'd come here before , you might have given us money , and we wondered if we could have it in retrospect . |
| 29 | From seeing one of the newest metro systems in the world , he wondered if he could fix it to go home via Budapest and see one of the oldest . |
| 30 | She wondered if she ought to point it out . |