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

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1 Those candidates stood to draw attention to the fact that Northern Ireland residents can not vote for or join a party which will govern them when it comes to power .
2 I said to the farmers we s you should cut grass and you get nitrates into the water and I said to the farmers er er about their slurry throwing erm a muck across the land , we know the problems that causes , I said if we came out with fertilisers which were would you buy them if it costed a bit more .
3 ‘ I 'm so excited , ’ said Elaine , ‘ I did n't think a style like this would suit me but it does . ’
4 I 'll batter you till it makes you fucking Roland Rat !
5 But if we can not recognise something as it stands we try to analyse it into parts that we can recognise .
6 Well , no , I do n't know it as it happens , ’ said Caspar .
7 ‘ Never mind , we 'll catch it when it comes up again . ’
8 and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm .
9 Er they had a lock , made it a good lock and sent it to all the clients and this is what we can supply , and it used to meet the needs of clients and they 'd er they 'd erm buy it and it kept them in business , you see what I mean ?
10 ‘ What we brought into the head office was financial expertise as I 'd recognise it and it did deliver a huge benefit including giving professionally-based leadership at the centre for all the financial staff already working out there in the field .
11 I will enjoy it while it lasts .
12 What one hopes for is for the student to remain open to the possibility of aesthetic experience , to accept and enjoy it when it occurs , but not to fake responses if it does not .
13 I did n't enjoy it when it happened the first time .
14 I therefore went into a meeting at in December and er we were presented with a report , we did n't receive it before the meeting , it was taken at the meeting and we said that we would n't discuss it if it related to night flights and again I wrote immediately back to the department of transport and I suggested that they should erm spend the report which I refer to , monthly figures of night flights so that the night flights could be monitored .
15 At first I would not even consider it but it fills her days , or at least it did until you arrived with your friend .
16 Both sides have seen the UN force at its weakest and may not respect it when it gets up to full strength .
17 I doubt very much whether it will yield anything but it has to be done . ’
18 I would n't buy anything unless it had the British Standard kitemark on it to show it was safety approved , and I also went for reputable makes , taking cost into consideration , too , of course .
19 The English working class will never accomplish anything before it has got rid of Ireland …
20 Billy was gon na do something but it did n't work out .
21 You know , a dog , when it 's confronted with danger it can , it can fight it 's way out a cat will do the same , every other creature will , will do something when it 's confronted with danger a se , a sheep is so intelligent and is so strong and is , has such a er , a self- preservation er er er
22 That letter would really show her if it appeared in a magazine .
23 And Ember said softly in her ear , ‘ I 'm not really gon na do it but it 's got ta look good , OK ?
24 But er I think we ca n't nobody else can do it and it has to be done .
25 about complete negotiation there 's an element of deciding that 's what we 're gon na do and we 're gon na do it and it 's got ta be spelt out for them .
26 I wo n't do it if it 's hinted on
27 they offered me two for a boat , right and they offered me one while I was there , then I got home and they offered me one that late that evening , job , erm working like that was a Thursday and they wanted me to start on the week Monday , I could n't do it as it happens I had to give my weeks notice here get out there that quick , so I fucking said , I said to myself well they 've first day , they 're gon na offer me a few more , so yeah they offered me a couple more but way from so , a bit unlucky I , I wished I 'd fucking taken it
28 If you find a baby er you 'd pick it up , it 's sort of very erm sleepy you ca n't rouse it and it 's got bright red cheeks and feet and you realize that it 's cold , what are you going to do immediately ?
29 ‘ I think you 've lost hope , and the only thing I can tell you is that if you hang on hope will come back , and you must n't do anything until it does . ’
30 ‘ I would never have been a dancer or believed I could do anything if it had not been for him , ’ said Crawford .
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