Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 Extract 2 oh listen I wanted to tell you one of the girls in my supply class we 'll hoover when we come back wo n't we she said to me she looked at my shoes and she said you 've got flashy shoes or something I said I got them in Spain she said Miss are you Spanish I thought it was really funny
2 Oh aye that 's right I heard it on the radio .
3 No that 's right I get it .
4 yes , that 's right I think it were the first ones to come out
5 That 's right I think it looked very effective what that woman had on
6 Well when you 're eighty odd I doubt it dear .
7 I ca n't claim it is original because I stole the idea from Dan Dailey in Mother Wore Tights , although it is possible I do it better than him now .
8 Er seven to eleven I think it is .
9 Sorry I sent it before without commenting
10 I mean , your mind plays tricks on you , does n't it ? — But look , I 'm sorry I said it .
11 Anyway I ooh I 'm sorry I said it 's Peter Craigs .
12 yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ?
13 Yeah sorry I thought it was , I did n't realise these are coming off
14 sorry I saw it yes I beg your pardon , I 'm sorry
15 As for that business of going to the police , I am sorry I mentioned it .
16 And I learned so many things , ’ she said , ‘ I am not sorry I did it , not at all , even if it was desperately hard work . ’
17 ‘ I 'm sorry I missed it .
18 ‘ I 'm sorry I missed it . ’
19 Or very sorry I find it very difficult to understand
20 Because , because I I do feel sorry , I I sorry I consider it for not having any young new members .
21 And he wants to , at the very least I think it 's reasonable to say , he wants to influence the Communist Party that , that this is the way you should be looking at the world and it , it is different to the way you were looking at it .
22 And er they had sold a car in eighteen ninety eight I think it was .
23 my husband and yes , just a minute , my husband arrived home from the war in nineteen forty eight I think it was or was it nineteen forty seven ?
24 it 's er nine eight I think it was
25 cos it 's forty six , fifty four and sixty eight I think it was
26 You do n't come under key stage until you go into wa er er year eight I think it is .
27 see in a minute something 's gon na go in that I swear it is .
28 All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you .
29 Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship
30 She said well he said after that I got it off pneumonia .
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