Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had , he would have heard me say that it was for the Attorney-General to enforce the law , not the Government . |
| 2 | Do you want me to say that it 's a fair cop or something ? |
| 3 | Because every person who comes in thinks ‘ this geezer 's gon na make me laugh because it says here he recalls Harold Lloyd , he 's a comic genius and he 's a continual delight ’ . |
| 4 | Well I got me shopping and it cost me forty summat one . |
| 5 | It also made me realise that it was stupid to waste any part of what little time we all have left in silly sulks . |
| 6 | The survey also made me realise that it was not enough to have read about the early beginnings of any religion ; one needed to study it as a living faith and see the development of thought and interpretation . |
| 7 | ‘ I was attracted to it because the script made me laugh and it 's a splendid play . |
| 8 | READING about how Princess Anne bossed her new husband around on their wedding day made me wonder whether it is time the rules of royal succession were changed . |
| 9 | It made me wonder whether it was all worth it . |
| 10 | A jolt of pain in my head made me wonder whether it was such a good idea . |
| 11 | Not only that , it made me wonder if it was not time to give the game another chance . |
| 12 | The baggy cut of the jacket made me look as it I 'd eaten one roast dinner too many , however the loose fit gave complete freedom of movement — particularly useful for stretching when scrambling or skiing . |
| 13 | I will be able to bring what is going on here in science back to the children in the classroom , and make them realise that it is not so far away from what they are learning about . |
| 14 | And if that is so , then I revert to the considerations already stated which as a matter of construction make me think that it did so legislate . |
| 15 | I mean I mean if it , if it 's really grotty I mean |
| 16 | I mean I sense that it is . |
| 17 | I mean I think that it 's erm a good idea for members to see what firemen and I 'm thinking in particular really of fire fight fighters I should n't say firemen , fire fighters , we 've got ladies , erm , who are retained and can be at their du place of work one minute , and twenty minutes afterwards they 've got to face up to ho horrendous sights , erm , it must have a tr traumatic effect on them . |
| 18 | They may need to go out in pairs which is why I think that we do need to put more money into the budget to provide this service and make sure that we 're doing it in the best possible way , erm so I mean I think that it 's very important that we 're consistent about this . |
| 19 | This is illustrated in Fig. 1 where a household , which at first is paid an income of £100 per week , is assumed to spend all of its income in a steady stream until , at the end of each week , it has nothing left until it receives its next £100 . |
| 20 | I heard Mr say I think that it that the view of the H B F was that the county had no ra right to make reductions in migration . |
| 21 | I finally got one job offer , but when I turned up to work I found that it had been a mistake . |
| 22 | As he lay on the bed , he found himself wishing that it really was his grave . |
| 23 | For some reason he found himself wondering whether it would penetrate to the forest floor , or would the ground-cover of pine needles remain dry and fragrant ? |
| 24 | Dalgliesh found himself wondering if it had been brought back from a school trip to the capital . |
| 25 | Come on … now … before they finishes their arguing and it 's too late ! ’ |
| 26 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 27 | Right so you touch its extremities and if you feel that its little feet are lovely and warm you know that it 's alright , okay ? |
| 28 | I 'm always saying , right I 'm going to bed now and you say you know well we 'll wait till the next one then , we 'll wait you know and it 's it 's it is really . |
| 29 | And after half an hour of discussing the good things and the less good things about the royal family the vote , apart from a few abstentions , we have worried a few people fo fo fo forty three people say we think that it should be a republic , fifty four no , so there is there 's a swing factor in the middle . |
| 30 | She caught herself wondering whether it mattered if Pascoe had done it , whether it was invariably wrong to kill when a murder meant removing a menace . |