Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pentagon would have been furious at losing an agent as well as a major mission , but there was little or nothing it could say or do to put things right without acknowledging that Coleman was an agent and thereby admitting that , for the better part of two years , the DIA had been spying , not on the country 's official enemies , but on other agencies of the United States government . |
| 2 | No blood or nothing it 's just er |
| 3 | I mean I 've not had or no skin or nothing it 's something like maybe |
| 4 | The decision whether or not to exercise this power , and to serve a notice before hearing the persons to whom it is directed or whom it will affect , must be one which the board must balance against what it regards as the interests of investors . |
| 5 | if , if , if they go into the Common Market rate , EE standard or summat it 's bloody new job we 'd have to be , got ta go to Blackpool this year |
| 6 | The trick is to give away what you reasonably can , to put straight into the waste-paper basket everything which it is not absolutely necessary to do anything about , or which it is now too late to do anything about , and then to begin to nibble away at the rest . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly a number of international organisations have requested an advisory opinion on the interpretation of their own constitutive treaty , or of an instrument to which a particular organisation is a party , or which it was instrumental in drafting and having adopted . |
| 8 | A governing party is apt to claim that it has a mandate for doing something which it said it would do in its election manifesto , or which it simply said it would do some time before being elected . |
| 9 | Or who it is really . |
| 10 | It should be replaced regularly or everything it has removed may be released into the system . |
| 11 | And that 's not quite on so that would bring it a little bit it might be about ninety two or something it might |
| 12 | Or write it down and put little dots and count up the dots or something it 's a erm a lot of the Who tells you not to count on your fingers ? |
| 13 | Answers tend to be vague and general , and sometimes phrased in terms of domains or interlocutors , as in the following description : Well they do n't really use it , like , well , now and then , like if we 're all in the family , if like my mum 's going to say somefing , right , she wo n't say " Wayne would you go do de dishes please " , she 'll say [ z ] somep'n like dat — she would say it in a West Indian talk but normally if like if there 's a visitor or something it would be plain English … |
| 14 | Especially if they 've got a logo or something it 's a good way to sort of ask for it . |
| 15 | Yeah but it 's only Littlewood 's or something it is . |
| 16 | Take a Break , and he looked just like this , they , oh it was er , a wrong picture or something it looked just like this poor bloke and a pale wrote in from this town saying oh I know him |
| 17 | and then somebody else has it , so it 's sort of once a month or something it turns up and they have sort of an extensive thing on it , I think that 's the way it works . |
| 18 | I thought I 'd keep that , if ever I wanted to go fancy dress or something it 's ever so pretty on ! |
| 19 | Oh she said she 's gon na erm , part of the garden in Wales she 's having it made into like a rose garden or something it 's like a , did she say it 's an acre |
| 20 | Bev 's got this book of dre , mystic book of dreams or something it 's called |
| 21 | That 's the , I 've got it in the file , a small conference room or something like that , or the committee room or something it 's called . |
| 22 | well , huh , one of our fucking sergeant 's right , we were taken erm some of the recruits from another , another troop I mean , er nine , nine , one or something it was one of the other squadron 's and er , and he 's got them inside where 's he 's like fucking the old erm |
| 23 | If I cough or something it goes quite for a little while then comes back again . |
| 24 | The organisation that calls the general election closest is the one that is most attractive to Tesco or Finefare or whomever it might be when they want to discover what the public thinks of their baked beans . |
| 25 | Whatever gave Francis , or whoever it was , the idea that Art $ Language had anything to do with the Situationists ? |
| 26 | Well done , Des Wilson , or whoever it was who taught the tiresome Paddy this trick . |
| 27 | And entertainment as fantasy is not acceptable , though I do n't think everyone has to go to the extremes of U2 or Jimmy Somerville , or whoever it is or whatever their politics . |
| 28 | ‘ Some chap or other told me once , ’ Artemis 's father suddenly said , ‘ that somebody or other discovered America before Columbus or whoever it was who did , but decided it was best to keep it under his hat . ’ |
| 29 | Now a compression is , pressure on the brain , caused by fracture , bleed or blood clot now if a person has been suffering from concussion and it 's gone unnoticed , that bleed could be just carrying on and on and on and it could take up to four to five days before the compression shows itself so perhaps a week later they 're sitting down to breakfast saying ooh my head hurts , now the poor wife or husband , or whoever it is does n't know about that knock on the head that they had previously , unless somebody 's told them about it mm , so your casualty now is going to have this headache and a beauty , they 're going to be confused their levels of consciousness it will deteriorate face is very hot , dry flushed the pupils will become unequal and because of the pressure breathing becomes noisy if you feel the pulse , it 's going to be slow and strong and you will get paralysis on the opposite side to the compression , what are , what are the signs and symptoms of ? |
| 30 | And that 's what causes tragic failures like Matthew Smith and Augustus John — they 've done the Paris rat and they live ever after in the shadow of Gauguin and Matisse or whoever it may be — just as G.P. says he once lived under the shadow of Braque and suddenly woke up one morning to realize that all he had done for five years was a lie , because it was based on Braque 's eyes and sensibilities and not his own . |