Example sentences of "it [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it me get in it |
| 2 | Bill can give , he can give it me to give her . |
| 3 | He gave it me to spend , presumably so he could spend time making love to you , sister , dear , ’ Dana said when Claudia asked her that question after Roman had gone to his room . |
| 4 | Is it me to go ? |
| 5 | Is it me to go ? |
| 6 | So he wanted it me to make this man hold this cow . |
| 7 | Ask yourself , ‘ What precisely is it I wish my child to say and/or do when I am asking him/her to be good , polite , helpful , kind ? ’ ( or any of those other vague goals parents set for their bemused offspring ) . |
| 8 | With a flourish I fastened the middle button of my new suit ( off-white with charcoal seaming : I 'm not sure about it I wish you were here , I wish you were here to tell me it looked okay ) , eased my hands into my trouser pockets , and ambled loosely across the street . |
| 9 | As I approached it I reached out my talons to land and perhaps the prey I was holding obscured the view for I should have seen sooner what had been put on top of the post by Men . |
| 10 | Where was it I took you , within my own domain or outside it ? ’ |
| 11 | Had it I seen that there was someone sleeping in the bed my course of action would have been otherwise . |
| 12 | For a second I was mesmerised by the chasm before me but as the only way I was going to fall was it I made the effort to jump , I realised that I was actually enjoying the thrill of imagined danger . |
| 13 | As a first step to achieving it I made up my mind , even before I went to Eton , to join the Sudan Political Service . |
| 14 | The minute your gran told me about it I knew it was n't true — and so did she , or suspected as much , anyway . |
| 15 | The members of it I knew had all sorts of behaviour , public and private . |
| 16 | He came to me and put his arms round me and said , " I 'm terribly glad , " and from the simple way he said it I knew that against all the evidence he had believed me , perhaps because he wanted to . |
| 17 | It was meant to be a jocular observation but even as I said it I knew that I had transgressed some important Gyggle taboo . |
| 18 | And when I started doing it I knew the hang of it and I turned round to her afterwards and said , " That was easy . " |
| 19 | The way he said it I knew he meant to goad her . |
| 20 | Anyway , I met Salinger in London to go over the story with him and confirmed those parts of it I knew to be true . |
| 21 | But even as I made it I knew my accusation was ridiculous . |
| 22 | As soon as I tasted it I knew it was serious |
| 23 | ‘ After 13 years of it I knew I wanted to go into painting full-time , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Ah I like it I knew there was something |
| 25 | I have n't , I have n't got a clue but I knew it the minute the second you said it I knew it . |
| 26 | In it I saw my child 's body inside my own , but it was n't curled up like a foetus . |
| 27 | Every morning I read the news avidly , and in it I saw gradually a possibility of believing in something again … |
| 28 | It says remote control on the top but it 's the wrong front , I think , on it I saw yesterday , yeah . |
| 29 | I tried to phone the , now who was it I saw , on a Saturday was n't it , a Saturday , ah , it 's still in there |
| 30 | where was it I saw it now ? |