Example sentences of "[verb] it [be] [adj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wendy betrayed by Rhoda 's desire for Ken : betrayed by the author of her own being : no wonder she had faded out of the world so quietly and gently and quickly , as if understanding it were better she had never been born . |
| 2 | The man who designed it is confident they 've got it right . |
| 3 | For one thing , the attitudinist view escapes an objection to subjectivism made by Moore that if when I say an action is bad I report my negative feelings towards it , and when you say it is good you report your positive feelings towards it , then there is no disagreement between us ( since we will probably both agree that the other has the feelings he reports ) which Moore thought an absurdity . |
| 4 | Because I say it 's stupid you know to destroy them or fling them away |
| 5 | They say it 's vital they speak to anyone who was in the shop or the surrounding area at the time . |
| 6 | Experts say it 's vital they prevent it happening in the future . |
| 7 | I hope Sue says it 's O.K. she thought . |
| 8 | Now well enough to speak about the accident for the first time , he says it 's amazing he survived . |
| 9 | I phoned me friend up you know and erm on Friday and asked and she said you do n't sound very well , I said I 've got a headache I said I 've had a headache every , cos I 've been on a diet and she turned round and said , she said you know she says it 's funny she says erm , you know what 's with us , what 's it with ? |
| 10 | Tony Carpenter , a dietician , says it 's vital they drink as much fluid as they can get . |
| 11 | Audrey says it 's vital she wins her case … |
| 12 | A purely syntactically ill-formed sentence , on the other hand , is irredeemably deviant , and the only contexts which can accommodate it are those which induce a tolerance for grammatical incompetence or , at any rate , nonconformity : |
| 13 | my Lord I do n't think there 's much point in going through that , we do n't believe it 's relevant we believe |
| 14 | For some reason I could n't , though I could see it was that which infuriated her more than anything . |
| 15 | We do enough succession planning in C U you know it 's magic you know , you know number two like it 's smashing number two it 's still you know , you know young children , number two has a different connotation to what it does here , but definitely if you are a number two here , it means the same to what a child thinks it is , but I |
| 16 | Yeah he 's a very you know it 's funny I know it 's the worst time to do a phone in actually because people are doing other oh I 've got me foot caught in the whatsit but erm I thought I thought we 'd get loads of people on saying I 'd been very rude saying that this was er er er nation of animal haters and abusers . |
| 17 | Oh yes , I should hope it 's all I need . |
| 18 | I suppose it is possible he has formed an affection for some boy , " she conceded . |
| 19 | I suppose it 's possible you 've set tripwires , ’ he went on , ‘ but I have excellent night vision . ’ |
| 20 | I suppose it 's possible he had a row with Nicola and killed her . ’ |
| 21 | Although his proposal of plural worlds was considered heretical , it is difficult to believe it was that which determined his fate . |
| 22 | Senna said : ‘ I feel it is premature it make any comment . |
| 23 | When your sister died it was all I had to hold on to . |
| 24 | but the second way in which section fourteen arises is this slightly more oblique way , erm , it 's , it 's not really the question of competition law it 's more a question of administrative law or constitutional law , erm whether it arises on the question er , your Lordship will have to decide , but , if , if it does then we believe that our case is extremely strong , because what one is saying here is , is section fourteen a block to an article eighty five action , erm does it make it either virtually impossible or something lesser excessively difficult , er and we say er that that 's one aspect and two can we show it 's discriminatory , well we say first of all it is discriminatory because even on analysis of the bad faith argument they are putting in a claimant with an article eighty five case to an extraordinary length in order to make good his case , he first of all has to super declaration presumably that he is entitled to damages , but he ca n't get damages all he 's entitled to is the declaration if then do n't satisfy that claim by paying up and their not going to be ordered by the court to pay up because that 's a claim for damages and you ca n't have that then you have to sue them again on the basis of breach of bad faith , er no other provision in English law would go to that effect and that of course even , even that assumes whether rightly or wrongly and we say possibly wrongly that er , er the failure to comply with the judgment of the declaration would be bad faith within the meaning of the act , but even assuming it 's right it puts a plaintiff suing for breach of article eighty five in the worst position possible |
| 25 | Bet it 's hard you know ! |
| 26 | I said to her as how seeing I 'm sixty one christmas I said I I ca n't , I thought it was stupid I said for erm for them to mess around like that . |
| 27 | Oh I thought it was nine he had . |
| 28 | and we had er , I mean we had a bright orange swivel chair and when that came out it was called the Orbit or something , something really weird and it had a big back on it and we thought it was great I mean , I think it 's awful now , some of the things we had , I 'll have to try and find some photographs cos I 've got a case full of photographs upstairs |
| 29 | So many people were interested in Sidacai 's fate that Alexei thought it was amazing they had not combined to petition Artai . |
| 30 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |