Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [coord] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise it tends to make the whole picture , like , I went to er er one club once and there was a very nice portrait , not unlike this , there was a girl sitting on a stool , rather less clothes on than this girl has got and it was very nicely done except she was sitting on a painted stool and all the paint was chipped and that to me looked really tacky ! |
| 2 | The situation has changed and it is now possible to determine , for example , how much oxygen is being used by a particular area of the brain while a subject does a task like reading or memorizing a word list ( Raichle 1983 ) . |
| 3 | I wrote and thanked him on behalf of the Council for what he 'd done but it 's now a question of finding somebody who can match it . |
| 4 | When I 'd finished and it was just the two of us left I put my arms around him and kissed his face . |
| 5 | She was enjoying herself so much that she stayed on the floor longer than she should have done and it was only when she saw Mrs Freer making furious faces at her from the doorway that she turned and glided back . |
| 6 | rubbish should have gone and it was only the |
| 7 | Support for the Greens may have shrunk but it was still at the same level as the Liberal Democrats ’ , the third party in Parliament , so perhaps Ms Cooke was unduly downcast . |
| 8 | Well , it was something that should n't have happened and it 's very regrettable , without a doubt , very regrettable . |
| 9 | We are happy with our progress we 've made and it 's really up to him . ’ |
| 10 | The faces at the ground-floor window had disappeared and it was extraordinarily quiet . |
| 11 | The sun had set and it was already quite dark in the Gardens . |
| 12 | ‘ He showed me a list of what had eaten and it was quite extraordinary . |
| 13 | is a foot deformity , present at birth right , present at birth , it does n't happen afterwards , it happens , it 's caused before the baby 's born and it 's more common in boys can be one or both foot , feet . |
| 14 | I know , but it 's switched and it 's still working ? |