Example sentences of "[verb] it [is] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 2 | ‘ I expect it is on its way , ’ said the Thing calmly . |
| 3 | It 's organisers say it 's for everyone and it 's receiving public funding . |
| 4 | say it 's on its way , it 's on its way ! |
| 5 | I say it 's like him him not paying his poll tax . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's just jealous because each time the telephone rings it 's for me and not for him . |
| 7 | It maybe wants it 's like mine , cos all upstairs wants balancing . |
| 8 | Now lets just close with those words of of Peter , on the day of pentecost , it 's not for other just , he says it 's for you , it 's for your children , and it 's to as many as there are far off , right down through the centuries , as many as the Lord our God shall call . |
| 9 | The Sheriff says it 's by his own hand . |
| 10 | He will try Rowntrees again , and said : ‘ I hope it 's worth it . ’ |
| 11 | It costs plenty , but I figure it 's worth it . |
| 12 | Therefore , I know it 's in my title deeds and I would assume it 's in his title deeds . |
| 13 | Gwendoline , I think , look it 's on her leg . |
| 14 | And I 'm going to suggest it 's in your interest to learn how the media operate , and it 's in your interest to cultivate the media , and it 's in your interest to actually persuade the media to do a lot of the work which you would normally do for yourselves if I could put it that way . |
| 15 | Yeah , well she reckoned it 's on it lovely actually . |
| 16 | I even know , thanks to Montesquieu , that one may be a Persian , but as for Man , I declare that I have never met him in my life ; if he exists it is without my knowledge.1 |
| 17 | that 's hard job to find out what to do it is for me any rate |
| 18 | If you were going to do , if you decided you wanted to do research on gypsies and , you yourself , a lot of gypsies er , and you decide th the best way to do it is to which gives a kind of subjective insight to their own lifestyle and thinking . |
| 19 | I know it is with me , er , with Dad 's Army , so er , if they 're getting huge ratings with those repeats , well , they 're obviously gon na put them on are n't they ? |
| 20 | As both W. G. Hoskins and W. E. Tate have shown , the English village as we know it is in its essentials a product of developments not much less recent than the growth of industrial towns and cities . |
| 21 | The sensible ones know it is in their interest to do so as well . ’ |
| 22 | I 'll get myself , I know it 's past it , but it it does , it does ! |
| 23 | So if he phones up I can say , you know it 's on its way as it were . |
| 24 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 25 | Therefore , I know it 's in my title deeds and I would assume it 's in his title deeds . |
| 26 | I know it 's like it 's like like the train station , is n't it ? |
| 27 | She forced a smile as she said artlessly , ‘ Oh , I 'm not saying it 's beyond you . |
| 28 | You were eight years old and I suppose it is to your mother 's credit that she wanted to spare you any court proceedings . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh well , ’ said Marcus , capturing his left hand again , ‘ I suppose it 's about what makes human consciousness possible , or rather it 's about what human consciousness is , which is to say what , and how , the world is , how anything is . |
| 30 | But I suppose it 's like us going over there and eating frogs ’ legs . ’ |