Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he did n't want to go if it meant leaving Kate behind . |
| 2 | After days of coalition building , Benazir Bhutto could only wait to see if it had paid off . |
| 3 | At that price bidders will need to know whether it 's still got all its the original characteristics . |
| 4 | Sun is clearly demonstrating to Bill Gates some of the black arts on which the Unix industry has cut its teeth — more of which Microsoft can undoubtedly expect to face when it launches its Windows NT challenge . |
| 5 | These great events took place in the year of Our Lord 1620 , and after that time , though there were disturbances from some of the remaining natives , there was no more profound danger , and the colony could begin to nourish as it does today . |
| 6 | I do n't like to read because it takes my mind off myself . |
| 7 | A quick glance at Ikeda 's sepulchral concrete space indicates what the gallery does hope to sell while it waits for American collectors to warm up to the cutting edge of new Japanese art . |
| 8 | As the vote approached , it seemed likely that the favoured version would not actually stop spending if it went over a cap , but merely require a special vote to approve or disapprove it . |
| 9 | I do n't know how I 'd 've coped if it had n't been for my mum . |
| 10 | I suppose I 'd have heard if it had n't . ’ |
| 11 | This dynamic could not indeed have developed as it did without the very considerable influence behind the scenes , particularly in the preparation of documents between sessions , of leading consultants whose theology was indeed far beyond that of any but a handful of bishops : Congar , Rahner , Philips , Chenu , Courtney Murray among others . |
| 12 | ‘ She seems all right but we will have to wait because it has been very traumatic . ’ |
| 13 | Now , by the chaos of war , and because the exiled Napoleon had returned to France and thrust a new period of battle on Europe , Sharpe was a lieutenant-colonel in the 5th Belgian Light Dragoons , a regiment he had never met , had no wish to meet , and would not have recognized if it had formed line and charged him . |
| 14 | The smaller the black hole , the shorter the distance the particle with negative energy will have to go before it becomes a real particle , and thus the greater the rate of emission , and the apparent temperature , of the black hole . |
| 15 | Why do they have to go where it says : Danger ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ For my part I believe the African Jesus would have won if it had not been for the Dark Host . |
| 17 | Why did this intervention have to come when it did ? |
| 18 | Stan might truly have forgotten if it had not been for the crash of the falling chair . |
| 19 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 20 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 21 | Bill feels that the recruitment campaign will have succeeded if it results in a significant increase of women applying to become firefighters . |
| 22 | It will not be easy but , even if it emerges as a successful project in the early 1990s , it will have succeeded because it suited the market , rather than because it was implemented as national policy . |
| 23 | When I was feeling really low , I could have quit if it had n't been for everyone who 'd been following me , and that comes down to everyone here at the schools . |
| 24 | Although this looked worse than it might have done since it covered fourteen months instead of twelve — the result of an adjustment to a different financial year — such figures demanded a response . |
| 25 | I think perhaps in the Habitat-Mothercare-BHS merger things have taken rather longer to settle down than they might have done if it had been a take-over . |
| 26 | He spoke honestly , but more harshly than he would have done if it had n't been for the pain he carried . |
| 27 | I 'm sure I would have done if it had been here … |
| 28 | It allows me to savour the end of the conflict , to enjoy it in a way I could not have done if it had really happened , that is if a few words had been exchanged , spoken with difficulty through the barbed-wire taboos that separate people in so-called intimate relationships . |
| 29 | Still , he would have done if it had n't slipped his mind , and surely the intention made him culpable . |
| 30 | She did not know what they would have said if it had been Edmund , but it was the title now which amazed them . |