Example sentences of "it [conj] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each meeting ends with the moneymen all saying things like I 'm in or I want in on this or You got it or Let's do it . |
| 2 | Sometimes this is no more than a description of what has to be done but sometimes it incorporates how the operator does it or should do it . |
| 3 | You know you need some information , resource investigator can either give it to you because he 's got it or can find it for you . |
| 4 | It therefore seemed logical to press a little of every suitable plant in her garden and later to create a design from it that would remind her for many years to come of her treasured garden . |
| 5 | So how would we find an outside correspondence for jealousy , a way of writing about it that would make it real for the reader , so real that it puts him/her in touch with his/her own jealousy ? |
| 6 | Do n't heat up bottles of formula in the microwave — there might be hidden ‘ heat spots ’ in it that could burn your baby 's mouth . |
| 7 | It 's how it 's used and what people do to get it that can offend our values . |
| 8 | So , go to a considerable amount of trouble to , first , find the point where your story has to begin , where the first absolutely necessary fact has to be put before the reader , then work equally hard to find a form of words to state it that will catch your reader as firmly as Ruth Rendell catches hers . |
| 9 | If we can improve let's hom let's home in on it and let's improve it . |
| 10 | Please note that where an area is marked for cyclists ( as in Middle Meadow Walk ) pedestrians have not been physically excluded from it and may use it ; also children or dogs may run on to it unexpectedly . |
| 11 | Nevertheless we crave it and would do anything for it . |
| 12 | Hank had no doubt that , sooner or later , old tabby-cats like the MacDonald woman would get wind of it and would give his mother hell about it . |
| 13 | There was always too much to do and although she hated it when she came as a young bride , she had grown to love it and would defend it with her life . |
| 14 | The old nineteenth-century role of Parliament as a body which chose the government , maintained it and could reject it , which operated as an intermediary between the electorate and the executive , has gone . |
| 15 | The second problem with knitting too many rows of tuck is that if a needle is n't knitting ( and , when tucking , it is n't ) it pulls up the knitting on the needles either side of it and can prevent them knitting off correctly . |
| 16 | Your reading will be useful only if you remember it and can do something with it . |
| 17 | They have made it and can help you make It . |
| 18 | If I 'm going to spend several hundred pounds on an outfit , I make sure I get real value out of it and will wear it a lot . |
| 19 | I do not need it and will set it aside for you , my dear boy , to complete your studies . |
| 20 | From the moment of it 's birth , in fact poss er , even before it 's actual birth , not long after it 's conception , now that that babe has a will of it 's own , and it will exercise it and will use it . |
| 21 | ‘ You said I was too single-minded about it and should widen my interests , so I am . |
| 22 | He replied that he knew damn all about it but would swear it was . |