Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [verb] [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 I had a thousands ships , but no matter where , you 're the one for me baby this I know cos it 's true love , you 're the one I 'm dreaming of true blue baby I love you .
2 I mean as I 'm , I do n't think they had any option with this I think because it 's a change of usage , considerable change of use then it had to go before the committee , erm but erm
3 She found that she was bringing more and more discipline to her writing for the Clarion , and thinking of this she noticed that it was the Clarion which Dr Neil was reading , or pretending to read , for her new awareness told her that , too .
4 Indeed , the markings on this one indicate that it was initially caught by a peculiar trapping practice used in Paraguay .
5 Some we chased but it was only a matter of chasing them out of the way .
6 And he said erm yeah he said cos we 've got ta pay this he said because it 's all in the guarantee .
7 An extreme view opposing the ‘ market fundamentals ’ or ‘ true-value ’ approach is that which argues that it makes no sense to talk about an inherent value of a share .
8 I was quite pleased with that you know because it 's er
9 That you know if it 's been traded fairly .
10 I mean if you think about it it was just an impossible task to do it sort of fairly or so that everybody felt all right about it and also that you know if it 's your own children you 're having to choose presents you know the who whole idea was sort of very very difficult really .
11 And they say yes we will , our business teach teacher told us about that you see because it 's been happening a lot , cos Marks and Spencers do n't ask for a receipt you see , it actually happened , they used to take things from upstairs , bring them downstairs and said they bought it and got the money for it .
12 Erm and various people like that you see and it seemed to sort of you you went up the scale .
13 They 're undergoing trials with Swindon Town Football Club , each one hoping that it could lead to a career in first division football .
14 When an output of the company is in the form of large quantities of interchangeable items it becomes uneconomical to test each one to ensure that it conforms to specification , so tests are carried out on samples .
15 When an output of the company is in the form of large quantities of interchangeable items it becomes uneconomical to test each one to ensure that it conforms to specification , so tests are carried out on samples .
16 ‘ What 's wrong with him ? ’ she asked , praying with all she had that it was n't serious .
17 Fabia drove through Belgium and into Germany wishing with all she had that it were Saturday and that her interview with the highly esteemed author were over .
18 That was all we got when it was a twelfth a little tiny piece like that .
19 And that 's virtually all it says but it goes over the words again and again , as if it 's trying to force you to rejoice through learning the words off by rote .
20 The latter he rejects because it is clear the Irish are too barbarous even to be Spanish , but he supports the former account of origins .
21 There are those who argue that it was the desperate attempts made by the Soviets in the last decade and a half to match the US , especially in Star Wars research and development , which brought about the economic collapse that dismantled the communist monolith .
22 All those who argue that it is the medium not the message that characterizes this revolution are , in my view , entirely wrong .
23 But even in such cases , there are those who argue that it is the interests of the global capitalist system that are being primarily served , even if some of these interests happen to be those of the transnational capitalist class within a Third World country , and benefits eventually filter down .
24 The project has been drawn some criticism , however , from those who argue that it does not take sufficient account of the interests of local tribal people .
25 Finally there were those who argued that it was essential to keep British control over at least part of the British car industry and that , after all the taxpayers money invested in Austin Rover , the company should not be turned over to Ford , a US multinational .
26 And although disagreeing in significant respects with Schwoerer , W. A. Speck concludes that significant inroads on the royal prerogative were made by the Revolution settlement , and that " the debate on the nature of the monarchy did end decisively in 1689 with the victory of those who argued that it was limited and mixed " .
27 It was a kind of verse at which he himself excelled — there are those who say that it is to be found just under the surface of some of his apparently " serious " poetry — and Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats has the spirit , if not the content , of the Bolovian stanzas which he had been writing since his early twenties .
28 I have therefore devoted little space to the problem in this study , but those who feel that it is important might well look at Dr Johnson 's comments on Macbeth — he disliked ‘ the Butcher 's knife ’ — and also at the correspondence between Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Bridges .
29 Having said all this , there were still those who wondered if it was not all too easy to confuse the eternal with the transitory .
30 There is probably an equal number of people , for example , who think that the less able have a poor deal , and that the system should be geared more towards improving their lot , and on the other hand of those who think that it is the most able who suffer , and that we are wasting our educational resources unless we tilt the system towards them .
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