Example sentences of "[subord] it [be] [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's not yet sure if it 's operable , but if it is he wants me to take the case . |
| 2 | Now what happens when you go to the station on a Sunday to park your car and find all the spaces are taken up by a car boot , er the whole think is a nonsense and er frankly somebody should tell British Rail so er I wonder if this is Chairman a shot across the bows of er rail privat privatisation and if it is I welcome it . |
| 3 | If it 's below sea-level we 'll just say that if it 's you owe me rather I owe you |
| 4 | Well if it was me to keep it balanced I usually put the bigger ones near the bottom or on one side so that the small bit are at the top and the big bits are at the bottom and artistically it looks a bit better balanced but it does n't really matter for the maths where you put it . |
| 5 | You would n't pay the whole of it taxable if it was you know you would claim expenses for one thing and another . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know , but if it was I think they 're going to get round to some really nasty questions . ’ |
| 7 | It was n't of course , if it was I missed it |
| 8 | I mean , the side bits look nice heavier cos it 's it gives you that it goes up that way . |
| 9 | Well I mean we 're doing matrices and I know matrices sort of , comes into I ca n't remember wh which part of it , because it 's I know it 's later on it 's about . |
| 10 | so as far as I 'm concerned even though it 's me running it |
| 11 | In your letter dated Tue , 18 Jan 94 10:25:54 MET , you wrote : If I thought Wilko was going there with the intent to win I might feel a little happier , but with the form as it is I think we 'll wind up in one of those boring 1–0 or 2–0 defeats where nothing exciting happens in the game . |
| 12 | But as it was I felt it would have been presumptive . |
| 13 | As it was I think we upset a lot of our own supporters , and others in the country , without any real gain in the long run . |
| 14 | Someone of my acquaintance once broke her ankle by falling over in the bathroom and while she could have dragged herself quite easily along the floor to a telephone in the bedroom if she had had one , as it was it took her the best part of an agonising hour to struggle down the stairs to the phone in the living room . |