Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trampling over it may damage it so that it ca n't be used . |
| 2 | In some cases cultivation maintains a good soil structure , while in others it may break it down , and what constitutes a ‘ good ’ soil structure may depend upon its mineral composition and upon the use to which it is put . |
| 3 | It follows that co-operative R&D is likely to raise total R&D spending if participants produce complementary products , and it may lower it if they produce substitute products . |
| 4 | If we pick up the leg of a horse that is not used to it , it may tolerate it for a second or two , and then snatch it back from us . |
| 5 | If they ignore the risk of workplace stress claims , it may cost them another fortune . |
| 6 | It may cost me my job , but so far the PM has backed me . ’ |
| 7 | But if you 're really stuck and you 've got a third question that you ca n't come up with I mean y'know sort of blur it , fudge it and make it look like there 's a sort of metamorphic answer there and we can sort of say well that 's sort of twenty percent or something and then that counts and it may carry you over . |
| 8 | It may calm you down . ’ |
| 9 | First of all , he 's got a general election coming up and we do n't know what its result 's going to be and it may disappoint him , he may find that the Parliament he has to work with is not going to be of the same cast of mind as himself . |
| 10 | This is the cheaper option , but it may leave you stuck with single glazing and a recurrence of your existing maintenance problems in a few years time . |
| 11 | That gives you time to get your head together , to pick up any appropriate notes that you may want , it may mean you want to actually consult somebody else . |
| 12 | It may blow them all into one spot . |
| 13 | It may involve you in extra duties and worries at first : for instance , you may have to take the patient to his workplace by car , and collect him again , and the timing may not be convenient for you . |
| 14 | It may tell you that your batteries are good , but it does n't say how long they will remain so ! |
| 15 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |
| 16 | Defined in this way , social change may be quantifiable — but as an historical concept it may tell us little about the experiences of ordinary people . |
| 17 | It may offer you important savings on your logistical costs , compared with shipping directly via the nearest port ! |
| 18 | Pupils need to learn that a biased document can be very useful indeed to the historian , because it may offer us insights into motives and attitudes of people in the past . |
| 19 | Erm firstly because as I say it may prompt him into doing something if we write to him saying you 're making an application to court yourself . |
| 20 | It may strike you as rather remarkable that this is possible , but the mathematicians assure us that it can be done . |
| 21 | It may strike you as unusual but , once mastered , it can be used very quickly and effectively for a variety of purposes : |
| 22 | It may enable him or her to highlight some salient point , or to focus pupils ' attention on a particular question as they view the next sequence . |
| 23 | Some aspects of it may shock you . ’ |
| 24 | It may predispose the interviewer to accept you if nothing untoward is revealed at the interview , or it may prevent you from ever reaching that stage . |
| 25 | It will therefore affect what happens during the interview , and if it is not done well enough it may prevent you reaching the interview stage at all . |
| 26 | But his conscience it may fail him and his heart it may give way , |
| 27 | Yeah erm so er yeah right that 's er because I mean what 's nice to see in these things is if you 're able to tell some sort of coherent little story from er y'know kind of these er people 's ideas , themes , speculations , evidence from previous studies and all that kind of thing and this is this is the data that we 've got that tells us something about those and says how misconceived they all are or how it may confirm them or whatever and then y'know a couple of bits sort of so it 's like a nice narrative but sort of fairly y'know sort of continuous argument going through which is nice to see and so er yeah . |
| 28 | Considered in isolation , it may lead us to tell people only what they want to hear , which may be very different from what they need to hear . |
| 29 | It may lead us to compare the relative increase in costs over a year , believing that we were comparing like with like . |
| 30 | And what good it may bring you God alone knows ! ’ |