Example sentences of "it [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen 's tearful mother Anne Stephens said today : ‘ Whether you believe it or anyone else believes it my daughter is innocent and she 's been sent to prison for a week for something she has n't done . ’ |
| 2 | Eye surgeons had learned to cut the ligament with complete success , but it was so different a procedure from the rest of the operation and so incompatible with it that they often dreaded it . |
| 3 | Death — she had so longed for it that she hardly gave it a second thought . |
| 4 | Why was it that she always found herself attracted to older men ? |
| 5 | In his treatise I Will Pray with the Spirit he describes that Church 's Book of Common Prayer as ‘ a mere human invention , which God is so far from owning it that He expressly forbids it , in His most Holy and Blessed Word ’ . |
| 6 | But was Picasso fond of the different women he was with or was it that he just liked them physically , and he was able to use them in his work ? |
| 7 | ‘ Then why 're ye wearing it if ye never stole it , if it 's not yer watch ? ’ |
| 8 | He wondered if he could do her dreadful job ; or rather , how long he could stand it if he ever tried it . |
| 9 | Or the person who pleads ‘ You would do it if you really loved me ’ — whatever the ‘ it ’ happens to be , the victim is likely to comply because a sense of guilt forces him or her to do so . |
| 10 | Well I was supposed to be but erm every single time they arrange it and they either tell me the wrong da well they told me the wrong day last week cos , they told me Tuesd they told me it was Thursday when it , when it was actually Tuesday when I was getting pissed at Scott 's house so erm it was too late by then . |
| 11 | ‘ I once asked him why he did it and he just said he and Parul were sexually incompatible . |
| 12 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 13 | Ha ha you did get it and he still gets it . |
| 14 | He would get it and he never changed it . |
| 15 | I bent down to do it and he always pokes me in the eye with it . |
| 16 | Nancy used one of those in it and she just lifted it out and the whole lot shattered all over |
| 17 | The house was so run down that even Anna could n't afford to do anything about it and she never liked it much . |
| 18 | And erm she you know she found it and she really enjoyed it . |
| 19 | I read it and I just went what ! for a start and then |
| 20 | I loved it and I honestly feel it did me an enormous amount of good in calming my mind and making my body more supple ( although as a Christian I do n't practise meditative yoga ) . |
| 21 | I hated it when our own kids suffered from it and I still hate it almost more than anything else . |
| 22 | I took it and I still have it . ’ |
| 23 | Throw that away ‘ abstract yourself from it and you thereby abstract yourself both from the plan and from the development of the spontaneous into cognised laws , and from the development of political economy into a science … |
| 24 | And the whole process is made as simultaneously agonising and amazing as it could be — you labour to give birth , that 's the right word all right , and it 's about as ghastly as possible and then at the end there 's this absolutely wonderful feeling , that the conspiracy has never hinted at , when you hold it and see it and you suddenly realise there 's a whole new emotion you did n't know anything about . |
| 25 | You never got drunk from that : you were used to it and you always had it . |
| 26 | A defendant would be guilty of the offence if he took the car , abandoned it and someone else damaged it before it was recovered . |
| 27 | so it were n't interacting between the two , everything had changed and it still did it , were a new kit , got a cabinet of setting line , changed it and it still did it . |
| 28 | Even then I did n't really believe it until I actually saw it . |
| 29 | Well I c I I 've seen so many things over the year I just do n't believe it until I actually see it and th literally four weeks ago , I 'd just got back from Germany , went on a meeting the following morning and it 's that gentleman there , Steve , and h he 's got some pictures in his pocket which will prove exactly what we 're talking about . |
| 30 | I 'll play it like I completely mean it . ’ |