Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] it 's [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't really ask the government to do something about the logging when it 's owned by themselves , I mean , or rather it 's controlled by the powers of the country and the only way to do something there is to boycott their timber , not to pressure the government , and we 're back to , you know , back to square one . |
| 2 | You 're arguing the toss over the small print as to whether or not it 's covered . |
| 3 | ‘ Such as whether or not it 's got something to do with the fact that you are quite exceptionally precocious . ’ |
| 4 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 5 | Maybe it 's a search for the feelgood factor in the midst of recession , or maybe it 's got something to do with modern architecture , but the market for Christmas trees is sort of growing . |
| 6 | Now if your person were to say come round , said it 's the first time they 've had a fit you get , call an ambulance , it may be epilepsy but it could be anything else , it could erm be , be the start of er something else in the brain because that 's all an epileptic fit is , it 's an electrical impulse , nobody actually knows why or when or how it 's caused , but it happens erm , but above all be very , very nice to your casualties , they 'll want to get up and they 'll run away , they want to get out , especially if it 's outside , because they 're embarrassed by it . |
| 7 | Well then they all come out , everybody , even Dave come out of the union and the only two that were left in it were Jane and Karen on our side and a couple from the warehouse and like there was Judith and I think Sonyou and a couple from the letter shop I , I , I do n't know , I do n't think Elaine went but I think the rest were , yes there were Pam and I think , I think Nigel were , but anyway when Judith comes up about what union money was left , I do n't know where it was left from or how it 's imposed , but they split the |
| 8 | I , I 'm always reluctant to put down specific methods of writing new procedures , or who 's responsible for it , or where it 's got to be done because it depends entirely on what it 's about . |
| 9 | I love pottery — and so it 's gone on . |
| 10 | And so it 's passed on to the person in the school or college responsible for that . |
| 11 | We been in Cowley nick so many times they keep a special room for us and inside it 's got Eddie and Rich written on the walls — and they do n't bother to clean it off 'cos they know we 'll be back and write it up again … |
| 12 | And apparently it 's based on K Y jelly ! |
| 13 | And obviously it 's had an impact on the row of shops out on Road for example . |
| 14 | Like an eyelid twitching , a tiny , tiny fluttering feeling , and tonight it 's got so strong its unmistakable . ’ |
| 15 | I mean Simon Greyson is not not picking up here neither is Colin Hill and really it 's come on a little bit sudden but that was totally unnecessary as well . |
| 16 | It was working this morning and now it 's stopped again ! |
| 17 | it just popped up to say hello , and now it 's gone back down below |
| 18 | Pardon me for being rude it was not me it was my food , it just popped up to say hello , and now it 's gone back down below |
| 19 | it was not me it was my food , it just popped up to say hello , and now it 's gone back down below |
| 20 | it came back up to say , say hello and now it 's gone back down below hello hello |
| 21 | it was my food , it just popped up to say hello , and now it 's gone back down below |
| 22 | It used to be six months did n't it , and now it 's gone up |
| 23 | Yeah , yeah , and now it 's come round |
| 24 | ‘ And now it 's happened I ca n't believe it . |
| 25 | But New York has my friends and now it 's got my kid . |
| 26 | It 's all different times and well it 's turned , I 'll have to get Herbert to have a look at it . |
| 27 | And now I 'll do the other half of my reef knot , right , and tuck the ends in immediately , they do n't like seeing ends because they 're considered dangerous in first aid so do n't forget to do it , do the knot , tuck it in all in one movement and then it 's done , okay , how does that feel ? |
| 28 | Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off |
| 29 | next thing he knows after a week it er , finds it and then it 's gone in n it ? |
| 30 | That side of tape 's nearly gone , a few more minutes and then it 's finished I think . |