Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Fulmars from ‘ Formidable ’ were also flying patrols and on one such sortie Lt. R. MacDonald-Hall , with L/A Harry Phillips in rear seat , sighted a He111 but were unable to catch it before it disappeared into the fog .
2 Let it ring — what do I care ? thought Dyson , as he hurled himself out into the hall to catch it before it stopped ringing .
3 well I have , I 'm making adjustments , what I mean , what I 'd finished it , I did n't bother to try it cos it did n't work , now I found out why it do n't work I have to change the rod , I 've got the rod in the wrong place
4 The desirability of this is obvious , though it must be said without wishing to offend anyone that it seems as imminent now as it was when the claim was first being made 30 years ago .
5 ‘ We 've got to find it before it takes off again ! ’
6 Were members to pass it as it stood , this would be an arrogant move indeed : they would be considering themselves to be more sensible than people outside .
7 Firstly the package did not have to sell itself as it does in self service shopping , since the salesman himself acted to promote the products .
8 Surprisingly little drink was enough to intoxicate him but it seemed as if the wine released the power in him .
9 Not that it would harm us to drink it as it comes .
10 The convention establishes procedures for the transport and disposal of toxic waste , and insists that the country for which the waste is intended should agree to receive it before it leaves port — an effort to avoid incidents such as the 1988 voyage from port to port of the Karin B. Environmentalists have criticized the convention for its lack of " teeth " — enforcement is left to individual countries — and for its lack of precision on what constitutes acceptable disposal standards .
11 But I mean the chap was quite within his rights to shoot it cos it 's been scaring his sheep .
12 Jaguar insiders say the company bosses — all 14 of them — are so enthusiastic about the car that every one of them has claimed he 'd spend his own money to buy one if it goes into production .
13 She had the right — as no other woman had ever had — to fetch him when it grew late .
14 ‘ It was one thing to challenge it before it set up and another thing once they 'd got going ’ , a member said .
15 It sidesteps the usual limitations of screen resolution by a powerful ‘ zoom ’ mode which enables the operator to enter fine detail , then to shrink it until it becomes virtually invisible .
16 Their friends told them they were crazy , it sold for a nickel and nobody , they discovered , had the curiosity to buy it although it did make all the local Greenwich Village news-stands .
17 Books from Boots Library had small labels in them which , if a reader wanted to buy it when it had finished its circulation life , he could fill in and give to the librarian when he returned it .
18 The probability — it can be no more , given the absence of hard evidence — is that Zuwaya used superior government when it suited them , exercised it over others when they could , and did their utmost to escape it when it threatened their property and privilege .
19 er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room .
20 They stayed there for about twenty minutes , walked where once there had been fear and intimidation , tried to imagine it as it had been , wondered who 'd died there , whose dreams had been shattered .
21 Equally it might be argued that since withdrawal from NATO was the last card he could play in his campaign against American influence , short of defecting from the West altogether , there were good reasons not to play it until it seemed likely to be effective or became absolutely necessary .
22 It was a test of skill to move silently among the trees with every sense alert , trying to spot one before it took fright and vanished .
23 ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . )
24 But here 's a thought for both men : there are times when a nation has to be persuaded to do something that it does not want to do because its future welfare demands it .
25 It was a study in how not to do something and it cost Chirac dear .
26 So — in the year in which we 've forced the text-centred discipline that is rock writing to incorporate everything that it has excluded for so long ( the relationship between the star 's body and the fan 's , the voice , the materiality of music ) — maybe it 's time to make criticism grapple with what undoes it , ‘ the uncritical ’ itself .
27 She said she had seen the programme and wondered if it had spoiled anything for me , but I was able to reassure her that it had improved my life .
28 It says thousands have packed city centre to cheer her and it said the fervour surprised republicans who have criticized the visit .
29 And erm they 'd moved the kit , got the electricians to do it and it took , it took three fuses when they did it , I mean the extensions fused on that particular system , the data pairs fused
30 ‘ Yes , well whatever it is he 's not going to do it and it seems to mean coming to meals .
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