Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year actually on the job had taught me that it was n't quite so simple ! |
| 2 | When I read a novel the emotions aroused in me bring the experience of the events of the narrative into the present , but I am not likely to be misled into thinking it is actually happening for there are enough indicators in the environment to assure me that it is not . |
| 3 | You recognise the anger you feel against your parents , but at this stage there 's little point in contacting them if it 's only to unload your bitterness . |
| 4 | The quick turn of the head , called dressing in army terms , was to check that the line was dead straight , and woe betide them if it was n't . |
| 5 | Paramedics came to the house in Thompson Street , Darlington , and struggled to revive her but it was too late . |
| 6 | Rumour has it that it is not his child . |
| 7 | Legend has it that it was here that Yusuf met his death beneath the hooves of his enemies , steeds ; here also that El Cid received a fatal wound . |
| 8 | Legend has it that it was once fired on by a warship because it failed to reply to a signal ! |
| 9 | ‘ You have got to accept it but it 's absolutely maddening that 30,000 people saw a good tackle but the referee gave a foul . |
| 10 | can not buy it because it 's too expensive for them . |
| 11 | So I whipped out something I 've done eleven hundred words , re-wrote it and it 's now seventeen hundred words about the house . |
| 12 | If you wish to eat animal products , then the advice is always to buy free-range produce , and to request it if it is not sold in your area . |
| 13 | Very very careful what you say it because it 's very expensive . |
| 14 | The second point was that yes you mentioned it but it was n't really arranged , . |
| 15 | The barber took a knife to the thicket , weighed it when it was off , and gave her 2½ lb of hair wrapped up in tissue paper which the nurse briskly took from her as soon as they were outside because she did n't believe in being morbid . |
| 16 | It was reduced because it was a discontinued pattern and James used it until it was about four months old . |
| 17 | To be to be honest i I , I , it 's been , the presentation I 've given tonight has been slightly different , it 's the first time I tried it and it was really successful . |
| 18 | It was almost dark when I found it and it was not until I arrived home that I could see its lovely design . |
| 19 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 20 | I did n't expect my family to visit me because it was too far , but they could have wrote . |
| 21 | when he 's down he ca n't move , I said yes he can , she said he ca n't , and three times she told them and it were n't until the third day , they apologise , they said I 'm awfully sorry we did n't realise just how |
| 22 | But someone told me that it is not the same as the passion fruit on sale at the shops and that the fruits are poisonous . |
| 23 | Police told me that it was probably taken by joyriders , and will end up miles away in somewhere like Bristol . |
| 24 | Several Veterans ' of the Winter of discontent' told me that it was mainly the younger students who got together with their teachers to protest . |
| 25 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 26 | The woman who was selling the magnificent object told me that it was only a month old and her old man , who had been killed by the Huns , had paid three quid for it : she was n't going to let it go for anything less . |
| 27 | and let me unless it 's there to lose yeah , I mean |
| 28 | I I told you when it was yesterday but you did n't remember ! |
| 29 | The way the temperature fell at his remark told him that it was not the correct one . |
| 30 | Caro Hunt says that at the age of five he could beat her and it was then she realised he had a lot of promise . |