Example sentences of "[verb] it [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rumour has it that it is not his child . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Legend has it that it was once fired on by a warship because it failed to reply to a signal ! |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | can not buy it because it 's too expensive for them . |
| 6 | So I whipped out something I 've done eleven hundred words , re-wrote it and it 's now seventeen hundred words about the house . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Very very careful what you say it because it 's very expensive . |
| 9 | The second point was that yes you mentioned it but it was n't really arranged , . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was reduced because it was a discontinued pattern and James used it until it was about four months old . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was almost dark when I found it and it was not until I arrived home that I could see its lovely design . |
| 14 | I 've done it before it 's just I have n't done it for so long ! |
| 15 | I think someone else should have done it because it is not our vocation . |
| 16 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 17 | a matter will be er that we going to fight er , easily er so I mean i , it meant that the er , that er er some more should be brought out so that it er does er adhere to what er these er er government departments er expect as a response rather than er er as this considered issue raising er , we can er facilitate that er quite er easily but er I think er the the main point is what Hugh has said , that er we opposed it because it 's not going to help in my view it 's not going to help er the patients , the patients are not going to come off any better as a result of er , these er er what I would say and I feel and er the , I I I 'd like to know what er the GP 's think about cos GP 's usually erm er , advise their patients if they have to wait a long time from one hospital , they would advise them to go into London and er , if that 's been stopped as been er that 's been stated erm then erm , er the GP 's are not going to feel very happy about their patients er , getting er erm a lesser service . |
| 18 | That 's still there now , cos they used to take it up there and dump it when it were n't any good . |
| 19 | During all our alterations I 've seen it in the old garage away up in a loft and I 've seen it put out in the back yard in the rain , and I 've always saved it and it 's there today . |
| 20 | I think if they really want to do it they should go ahead and do it because it 's not going to get any easier . |
| 21 | And why did he do it when it was perfectly possible for him to have experimented on any cadaver purchased by him for his medical academy ? |
| 22 | Meg wished she had n't said it before it was out of her mouth . |
| 23 | As Kipling complained , they hardly noticed it when it was there ; and since its conversion into a Commonwealth of Nations in 1947 , with Indian independence , they have hardly noticed that a Commonwealth is not the same thing . |
| 24 | His sabre , unfortunately , was on the other side of the sepoy ( it was a good thing he had not noticed it because it was so sharp that he would have been able to slice Fleury in two without even pressing ) . |
| 25 | The fact that a very similar kind of furniture can be bought in an enormous variety of different places , there 's not this same idea that ‘ Oh , I would n't ever go in that sort of shop to buy it because it 's not a place for my sort of person ’ . |
| 26 | In in fact it was n't long before it was n't long before Christmas was it we we actually got together and I wrote a memo that if there is anything erm before it leaves the plant , if the tractor driver or whatever e does n't like it and it 's not acceptable then it goes back to the plant . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'll know if you 've got it because it is very painful , your mouth fills with ulcers and the flesh between your teeth becomes puffy and ragged as it rots . |
| 28 | Yeah we enjoy it but it 's just such a long drive |
| 29 | ‘ How can I keep it if it 's not mine ? ’ |
| 30 | Well I mean the children , I mean if I go into the school and I , and say to them look there is a fire there but , you know , please will you not use it but it 's just a question of whether the children fiddle with it really , that 's |