Example sentences of "[prep] it and [verb] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could make neither head nor tail of it and decided I was dealing with a bunch of idiots . |
| 2 | Sometimes I will have abandoned a painting , got really tired of it and feel it 's not getting anywhere , and you will come and make some remark that makes me look at it again and think : oh yes , I could just pull that one together . |
| 3 | So , Sarah had a job to do , but it was n't , sort of , till the end , and we 're gon na finish too quickly because normally we have it like Paul and Helen being really with it and look there 's sort of upward |
| 4 | It is not so much that the stuff itself is pink ( the stuff itself is chartreuse , as a matter of fact ) but that everything connected with it and surrounding it is : its packaging , its bottle-top , the invitations and programmes for its launch at the Opéra-Comique — its vie , if you like , is en rose . |
| 5 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 6 | Mary got stroppy about it and said it was wrong what they were doing , it was a desecration . |
| 7 | Well what you 've got to do now is think about your own house and in the same way you 've just thought about it and say what is there about my house that would attract somebody to try and break into it . |
| 8 | and the last time he said take it away for a week and see if it 's any better , so he took it away and it were no better so he took it down to Paul and somebody from come and had a look at it and said it 's injector problems |
| 9 | Erm , and Chris had a look at it and said it 's not the phone it 's your line , so she had to have the , the G P O people in . |
| 10 | Could erm could you perhaps tie up between you , David and Jane , erm so that Jane you could go and have a look at it and see what 's actually needed to get that up to date . |
| 11 | Sometimes I look at it and think it 's such a waste . |
| 12 | We might look at it and think it 's worth doing it 's interesting . |