Example sentences of "[verb] it [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was too big a puzzle and she let it go although it gnawed away at the back of her mind . |
| 2 | She let it soak while she searched again among the water colours . |
| 3 | He let it fall and they ran down through the field after Caspar . |
| 4 | but he let it lapse because |
| 5 | Do you think we 'd have let it happen if we 'd known ? |
| 6 | Erm at various times throughout the course of the enquiry Selby seems to be gathering a bit of a growing reputation that that the district have let it rip or or the or the collecting point for the remainder of the county . |
| 7 | " Let it snow till it reaches the chimney-pots , " he says to himself . |
| 8 | He also let it drop that Prince Andrew was a close friend who trusted him . |
| 9 | Corbett let it drop as the trumpets brayed again and royal serjeants-at-arms , staves in their hands , moved into the hall and began to impose order . |
| 10 | Let it go before someone starts a fund to pay for his defence . |
| 11 | She took another breath then let it go before she asked , ‘ When shall I phone ? ’ |
| 12 | always ask me never never just let it go and think , Oh well perhaps I 'll understand it later . |
| 13 | Because you get , all you do is , is press that button up there and let it go and you can talk . |
| 14 | He would live out one more life , back on the planet , in this new body ; let it age and die . |
| 15 | Let it sit if it wanted to . |
| 16 | we can do she put an ice cube on the splodge let it melt and when it drys out the carpet comes up again but I do n't know if it 'll work but it ca n't do any harm , can it ? |
| 17 | Let it stand till it be cold , and then serve it up . |
| 18 | Yeah well put a bowl in there and let it stand and that and that 'll erm go into the vinegar . |
| 19 | I know for a fact she 's had her eye on my mother 's matinée jacket collection for years and when I once , in passing , said I wondered what happened to those old prosthetic devices in the estates of deceased senior citizens , Madge let it slip that she knew a way of turning a Zimmer frame into an attractive lamp ! ’ |
| 20 | What I might actually do it see if Ian 's not doing anything if he not come in for the full time that they 're cleaning up , but come in for those sort of things . |
| 21 | they must have seen it land or something like that . |
| 22 | Perhaps she had seen it happen while in this automatic state . |
| 23 | He had seen it work while at Delta . |
| 24 | Ronald Chalmers 's term of office as vice-chairman had been a year only , he said , and he had made it know that he did not want to be considered for an office-bearer 's position . |
| 25 | They wanted to make it work though and they could n't have made it work unless they had had the I mean the right conditions to do so . |
| 26 | You could 've made it work if the peasants if the peasants were revolutionary , if the peasants had changed their value system and were n't and that there were very few who were still working within the economy . |
| 27 | A casual glance would have made it seem that her expression was stiff with anger . |
| 28 | I know that it is there , and if only , if only I can choose the right words , and if only I can tap the exact right source of power , then I shall see it ignite and flare into life . |
| 29 | We had a good view of Sao Paulo as we flew over it — so massive , it looks bigger than New York , and you can almost see it grow as you watch it , because all round the outskirts of the city are straggling half-finished ‘ shanty town housing estates ’ , with dirt roads and little hut-like dwellings , as it seemed from the air . |
| 30 | In the light from the glowing pillars they could see it twist and settle slowly as they disturbed it . |