Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] and it [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ There 's absolutely nothing to see and it 's awfully full of nettles ’ ; at the same moment Jean Powers was saying noisily that not a solitary soul had been into the Britches in years and the village wondered what Edward got up to in there — ha ha ! — some people said he must be into black magic , or maybe he was growing cannabis . |
| 2 | You know I 've been I would n't bother showing them some that worked , I 'll always pick the case that had some hiccup on it , so the basic skill you were trying to show them never worked out , you know what I mean and it 's well do n't worry about that , if it was a normal case |
| 3 | So I did and it 's very strange I remember toddling off with this little chap and er and Miss said , Who is this then ? or words to that effect . |
| 4 | I do , I mean I do that when I erm , y , you 're so excited about getting a gain on the appointment and you think , why he 's got about five in there , and then you think there 's a big space between them , but you think , no I 'm not going onto next week because you might not be interested then , but you do , you end up putting it down so they , so it 's still in their mind and that 's the , the way I work and it 's probably wrong , it 's probably wrong , I mean I do n't |
| 5 | Come on … now … before they finishes their arguing and it 's too late ! ’ |
| 6 | now I am retired and er yes last year I was feeling a bit decrepit , you know I used to go for a full wal walk round after lunch , after dinner , around where she lives and it 's much harder now . |
| 7 | People were sitting the main point of the chair is is to enable you to write and it 's actually very satisfactory to write in , it 's just the right height . |
| 8 | It 's like when you piss and it 's really bad , it 's really bad and then you get to the toilet and it 's that 's why I like that bit in , have you seen A League of Their Own ? |
| 9 | He reckons he 's got six pounds you know and it 's just so distracting . |
| 10 | You know we tend to sort of hover outside lodge meetings a bit you know cos it is all men you know and It 's quite frightening really you know I mean this sort of erm I think the way the finances are worked for instance er . |
| 11 | And certainly you know I mean Yona 's list now of support for this next rally we 've got on March the first is huge I mean it 's sort of and that 's not gon na go away is it you know I mean next year I do n't know what we 're gon na be up to but hopefully we 'll be supporting somebody else in their er struggle for fair play and that network will obviously come into play you know I mean I 've we 've been South Wales have said , Oh you know these are all our contacts you know some of the women in South Wales and in Deeside they 've said these are all our contacts and these are the people that were good and did the work and got the leaflets out and brought the money in you know and it 's as simple as that really you know . |
| 12 | They know the accommodation you see and it 's really grot ! |
| 13 | Okay well that that 's in simple terms and you 've got this to take away for you to study erm then that we we that 's the that 's the sort of earning potential you have and it 's there |
| 14 | that do n't cause people any symptoms until something happens and it 's too late . |
| 15 | And so we have and it 's now that the war 's over , we 'll now see the press pressing and probing and trying to erm undermine John Major in the way they 've erm |
| 16 | As a matter of fact , the hunt is a very ineffectual way of controlling foxes , er they record the number they kill and it 's very , very few , a tiny percentage of the number of foxes there are in the countryside clever foxes er , as indeed I think Mrs mentioned , live in towns nowadays er , but there are still quite a lot in the countryside fortunately and they will survive er , though zoologists tell us er that er by instinct er they see that their numbers are controlled . |
| 17 | And he done and it 's all over this bear . |
| 18 | It varies , it changes and it is always uneven . |
| 19 | That 's what he said to me , cos I said oh it 's all old men you know what I mean , he said it 's not he said like , you go down the West Indian end , he said and it 's really a blinding day out . |
| 20 | " Silly , really , I 've been sitting here puzzling about what to do and it 's suddenly clear . " |