Example sentences of "[prep] it and [subord] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money and effort that should have been devoted to supporting the ordinary people in Highfields has been wasted on power politics and I agree that it 's time surely to put an end to that disgrace now there is a certain logic in Mr amendment , it basically says let us put the implementation of council policy in the hands of the director of education , let him take executive control and let us take politics out of it and if I thought that that would do what both Mr and myself want to happen I would support . |
| 2 | You walk up towards it and when I see you |
| 3 | The accelerator cable broke in the middle of nowhere so we had to tie some string to it and while I drove , my girlfriend pulled on the string . |
| 4 | The accelerator cable broke in the middle of nowhere so we had to tie some string to it and while I drove , my girlfriend pulled on the string . |
| 5 | It were n't er just all you know , there was a certain amount of er thought attached to it and as I say , the people was er accepted by the gaffers and er respected , you know what I mean . |
| 6 | I have just bought a Wood catfish , but I can not find any information on it and since I introduced it to my tank , I 've never seen it . |
| 7 | You have had a long life of service and time to look back on it and if I did not know how your arthritis troubles you and with what difficulty you pen your kind notes I would ask you to help me in this . |
| 8 | He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up . |
| 9 | As I blundered on in my explanation I realised he had forgotten all about it and if I had kept my mouth shut the problem need never have arisen . |