Example sentences of "it [be] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What size should it be and does it matter which design is chosen ? |
| 2 | You ca n't just let it be and put it in the bin and forget about it . ’ |
| 3 | But where other people would probably have covered the past in a coat of paint , the building 's new young occupants , the Stewarts have happily let it be and turned their decorative attentions to the interior instead . |
| 4 | Try and do the sums as it were and think it through , and if you do that , I think you 'll see that er , it does work out this way And of course , it gets er , even worse if you consider questions like relatedness through parents , because clearly I may be related to my mother 's sister 's children , my cousins , er no it 's actually nieces , because my mother and her sister share genes , but I 'm not er necessarily related erm in the same way , erm , through er , my father 's er relatives , for example , because although erm , because my er , my , my relationship between mother 's kin and my father 's kin is purely through marriage , so they have no joint genetic relatedness . |
| 5 | Let him assume that she knows how annoying it is and does it to annoy — if you know your job he will not notice the immense improbability of the assumption . |
| 6 | Says if I move the window he 'll be able to see what it is and avoid it . ’ |
| 7 | Each time you pick one up you will be checking which rod it is and adjusting your actions to suit that particular rod . |
| 8 | If Washoe has an unfulfilled desire , one can rest assured that the eager and attentive experimenters will gather from context what it is and fulfil it if at all possible . |
| 9 | The way to get the best out of something — whether faith or a donkey or anything else — is to find out what it is and treat it accordingly . |
| 10 | I told him yes it was and brought him into the hall . |
| 11 | They then spent the rest of the lesson — the first part had taken twenty minutes — in writing an account of why Rome was settled where it was and comparing it with the legends that they knew concerning Rome . |
| 12 | I could have my own contributions returned or I could leave my pension where it was and draw it at the age of sixty-five . |
| 13 | ‘ So I hailed a taxi outside the motel and just said British Committee and he knew immediately where it was and drove me straight there . ’ |
| 14 | They looked me over , said that they did n't know what it was and sent me home . |
| 15 | Then she bought whatever it was and paid their price without worrying too much about the provenance . |