Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to write about it here so that new writers will know it exists and perhaps be brave enough to address this difficult aspect of our experience in their work . |
| 2 | What we do is buy it barrelled and and |
| 3 | If you do n't support the roof you can expect it to fall and two men were hurt . |
| 4 | Farmers had demonstrated , as they had to Arch in the 1870s , that once the seed is in the ground they can happily watch it grow and starve their workers , if necessary , into submission in the meantime . |
| 5 | ‘ You can watch it coming or turn your back on it . |
| 6 | There was a good deal of air ahead of him — he could feel it moving and there was a considerable space above his head . |
| 7 | Push the ends of the roll towards the centre , so the pastry crinkles ( this will prevent it tearing when the roll is curved ) . |
| 8 | Got ta present it saying that this is what 's happening . |
| 9 | She says in Belgium they 'd give it scraps that people did n't want . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I might do the tennis stuff for three or four years and decide I can do it sleepwalking and turn to something I really care about and like to pursue , which is politics . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | er , erm , speaking in favour of the motion against the amendment , quite strongly against the amendment because I do n't believe it moves that debate any further and the debate , as a number of speakers have said , will go on beyond this chamber , Chair . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the light from the glowing pillars they could see it twist and settle slowly as they disturbed it . |
| 16 | Ca n't actually see it move but I can see it if I look |
| 17 | but it 's I 'd rather see it bodged and some credibility left with district and city councils than er a hole that |
| 18 | Four minutes later he claimed a second near Hal Far , but did not see it crash and had no witness , although he believed that the pilot of this aircraft also baled out . |
| 19 | No it was Mark , I can remember it happening when she |
| 20 | It was called , I I ca n't remember it opening but I can remember the the Cooperatives Association , not the , it was the . |
| 21 | I 'd like to thank and , I 'd like it minuted that I 'd like to thank , our Councillors and County Council Councillors because they are getting the reports in now . |
| 22 | This is no rain dance … motocross riders do n't like it wet and muddy . |
| 23 | I have little doubt , however , that we would live a great deal longer than we do , were it not the case that the same evolutionary changes that make an animal fit when it is young may condemn it to deteriorate when old . |
| 24 | This Welcome break restaurant has suffered such a drop in trade that staff have agreed to work on short time , with a cut in wages , to try and keep it going until the bridge reopens . |
| 25 | Rational arguments and the need for money may keep it submerged but from time to time it is so inflamed that it can no longer be suppressed . |
| 26 | We 'll just keep it closed until we 've finished this next session , which will be about two or three Anyway Let's start with the simply because it 's we 've got their findings up here . |
| 27 | You can use it to point and click at things on the screen , open menus , select from lists , mark areas of text , and even edit them . |
| 28 | For example we can use it to show that it is possible to pivot from any primal feasible tableau ( T1 ) corresponding to a set of constraints to any other primal feasible tableau ( T2 ) for these constraints , maintaining primal feasibility . |
| 29 | He 'd use it to identify and locate all the landmarks which he had stared up at during his exhausting explorations , now seen from a very different perspective ; he knew the names of all the streets where the distant , anonymous towers of the banks and finance companies were sited , having worn himself out many times by walking along them , fascinated by the scenes glimpsed behind their mirrored , darkened or tinted glass windows and walls . |
| 30 | Its lateral line should enable it to survive and eat , but even this may have been affected if it is bumping into things . |