Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] and it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've learnt a lot , my job depends on me driving and it 's made me realise how much I can drink , how much I ca n't drink , what I can drink and realising about road accidents . |
| 2 | I can set this cruise control to any speed I want and it drives without me having to touch the accelerator . |
| 3 | if I start and it starts getting boring |
| 4 | I got one of them and I had and it 's got that in it . |
| 5 | I sit down , I yawn and it comes to bedtime and I 'm really too tired to go up the stairs . |
| 6 | She 's found something she loves and it gives her strength . |
| 7 | How can I say it ? you cough , and then you cough and it goes up ? |
| 8 | They look past you as you speak and it seems they see |
| 9 | A diary helps you to reflect and it aids memory . |
| 10 | And if you get fed up of moving text one tab stop at a time if you go alt P you then actually remove all of the paragraph formatting that you add and it takes you back to your starting position . |
| 11 | you know and it gets really frustrating . |
| 12 | Well sometimes they hate me too , you get a virus on it you know and it crashes does n't it ? |
| 13 | The thing you light and it heats the water up . ’ |
| 14 | You can train with the Crown Prosecution Service if you wish and it gives the opportunity to work in all parts of the country and to practise advocacy . |
| 15 | For it cuts up the grass like farmyard manure , it chops it up you see and it rots quick and makes the grass grow quicker . |
| 16 | Well I mean they wo n't flower again , that 's for certain you see and it 's it 's got ta be |
| 17 | I mean there was , there was a wonderful Times cartoon , I do n't know if you saw it , of Yeltsin showing all the troubles he , he could n't control his government , there were economic problems , people were being nasty to him apparently as he was saying how do we manage and it turns out of course at the end , the final kick line is he 's talking about John Major 's situation . |
| 18 | oh ca n't get it , and that 's what we do and it comes up three channels you can use and somebody else cleared out two channels are used and if them channel |
| 19 | Now people get all the sugar they want and it makes them sick . |
| 20 | they disappear and it goes to white . |
| 21 | That at least is the role he plays and it sums up much of his generation . ’ |
| 22 | If you use too high a concentration , it irritates and it stains even more than the dilute stuff does . |
| 23 | Well it 's like erm an it 's like it make it fancy and it goes |
| 24 | And it has And it has has it not been admitted in at least one of your background documents that the character of the settlements round York have a part to play in that ? |
| 25 | inflation is the biggest economic problem and what problem it causes and it says discuss the fact that erm with inflation now being around four to five per cent it is now a , it is now being cured , discuss that sort of thing , you say yes it has , but at the moment we 're still suffering the effects because we are in , we 've got high interest rates , we , and in order for us to have really beaten it , we could have low interest rates and low employment and low inflation , but we 're still in the middle of it |
| 26 | ‘ I want to want ’ , the underground man 's lonely cry , is also his though he does n't utter it , and biting the governor 's car , like sticking the tongue out , is a one-against-all drumming of the heels of consciousness — but again with a difference which is that the biting extends beyond the notional ; it happens and it hurts , though it 's a minor foray compared with Raskolnikov 's spectacular eruption into actuality with the murder . |
| 27 | much better than backing it to win and it comes second . |
| 28 | because he could n't get to there you see so I said well it 'll have to go now , well we 've got it shifted and it 's thrown away and , and that 's the end of that , so I says now when she does decide to come and she wants to be in here , well I said she 'll just have to carry a mattress in , and that 'll be alright just for her to sleep on |
| 29 | In polar regions , as the heat is lost to the atmosphere the surface water naturally gets denser and it sinks and it spreads at some level in the ocean into the rest of the world ocean . |
| 30 | But if I can leave it running and it runs out it will suit me down to the ground . |