Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] it [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You complain how seldom I attend you , and when you are always talking of matrimony or this low-born raw girl it must needs lessen the pleasure of approaching you .
2 A National Guard , reporting directly to the President , was to be established immediately , in order to reduce the role of the army in riot control ; according to official sources it would number tens of thousands , and would incorporate the riot police .
3 So having diffused to the endoplasmic reticulum it can gate open the calcium channel , and this leads to an elevation of internal calcium , not from the external medium now , but from internal stores .
4 But if they had twenty five percent it would gentlemen of the Conservative party to say , Listen , you 've got twenty five percent , go on , run the country .
5 So , normally the boiler will malfunction on the D6 roll of a 6 , but if the Steam Tank has sustained 1 wound it will malfunction on a 5 or 6 , if it has 2 wounds it goes wrong on a 4 , 5 or 6 and so on .
6 I 've enjoyed having you here , and in a small way it will sort of thank David , make it up to him by having his granddaughter to stay .
7 Yet some of the people concerned would be people I was at school with ; and in any case it would cal 1 upon questions and allegiances that I had continuously pushed into the rear recesses of my mind .
8 Any moment it would buck , toss her , white broken heap , on to the gleaming floor .
9 There is no stimulus for the imagination and like any other muscle it can atrophy from lack of use . ’
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