Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I thought it no less than my duty to book us into somewhere special on the west coast for a week . |
| 2 | So I did it a lot . |
| 3 | The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss . |
| 4 | Thus they considered it an affront to a man 's dignity — but not to a woman 's — to earn a wage only on a par with social security benefits . |
| 5 | okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed . |
| 6 | The constant streams of traffic flowing past it gave it the appearance of an ocean liner in a sea full of tiny fish . |
| 7 | And when it came out I gave it a puff in my little rag , and made sure the others did the same . |
| 8 | it stopped it dead in its track , yeah , could n't get to rewire it after it though it snapped it a little bit . |
| 9 | " Girl I knew — Holy Roman she was , Irish — she used to say God thought it up as a joke , and when he found people taking it serious instead of laughing , he was so put out he made it a sin . |
| 10 | Well you did it the other day but then you did n't have a teddy in your hand did you ? |
| 11 | Well it seemed it the bairn 's been in . |
| 12 | But then we developed it a bit further like we did with negative numbers . |
| 13 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 14 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 15 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 16 | Well that 's , that 's well that 's all I can recollect in relation to why we did it the way we did . |
| 17 | Touche Ross tax partner Maurice Parry-Wingfield spoke for many others when he called it a ‘ victory for common sense ’ and urged the Revenue to leave well alone and resist any temptation to change the law . |
| 18 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |