Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [verb] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I make sure , then prepare to leave , but I want to make it appear that I entered and left the church like a ghost . |
| 2 | ‘ I do think it helps that we 're in the same profession . |
| 3 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 4 | But I do know that he , where he lives , I 'm sure I 've seen it written that where he lives he has services there . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've heard it said that we are going to be a service economy . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've heard it said that the only reason we got the contract with Talkin' Loud is 'cos we know Gilles . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've heard it said that retrospectives are bad for the health . ’ |
| 8 | I have heard it said that when bream break surface it is simply to obtain the extra oxygen available there . |
| 9 | I have heard it said that an Englishman 's humour is unique . |
| 10 | I have heard it said that they were built by Iron Age men in honour of Megan , a Celtic goddess . |
| 11 | I have heard it said that the only major advance in stratigraphy and sedimentology since the Second World War was the concept of the turbidity current . |
| 12 | But I have heard it said that parts of the Rocky Mountains are quite like our Simla . |
| 13 | Most people ignored this commandment , although I have heard it said that Pike was to be seen with a compass on a number of occasions , trying to align himself correctly . |
| 14 | I have heard it denied that the candles — different candles — glimmer for every child when he or she reaches the age of three or four , but of course that denial is nonsense ; simply , most children are asleep in the depths of the night when the candles shine out . |
| 15 | I have heard it objected that in every book of hers there is a smell of onions , and that this is intended to show observation . |
| 16 | It purports to be based on the recollections of courtiers and retainers hunted up after the fall : but I have heard it suggested that the author did not take to the Picador edition 's cover display of a picture of Haile Selassie , perhaps on the grounds of a misleading particularity . |
| 17 | ‘ Defence has been perfected to a remarkable degree , ’ he said , ‘ and I have heard it suggested that through its further development football may be brought to a state of stalemate … it will be a sorry reflection on forwards if they have not the intelligence , the inventiveness to devise means by which they can carry their attack to a successful end . ’ |
| 18 | I have heard it suggested that there is some danger that prospective buyers might be put off by the idea that their units have been used in this way . |
| 19 | I now find that the perms do n't take very well and I have to have it repermed and even then there is some part where it does not take . |
| 20 | And P Way work cos that 's what you 've said it does and you , you 're |
| 21 | You 've got it made if only you 'd realise it . ’ |
| 22 | If you 've got it to use and you plan your retirement is , is n't that if what you 're hoping to do ? |
| 23 | I said you 've got it writing and in the solicitor 's letter , she said in there that erm he must get in , if he do n't understand it or er do n't agree or whatever he must get the solicitor but er ai n't heard , ai n't nothing a about it ! |
| 24 | When you 've read it come and ask me for the disk and I 'll lend it to you . |
| 25 | Because if one of those feelings starts coming up , you have to make it known and then get around it . |
| 26 | ‘ WE WANT to make it look as though it 's a wine merchant , ’ says Tim Waters in Clapham 's Wine Rack , south London , one of Thresher 's five prototype high-street wine shops . |
| 27 | Well I maybe in a couple of weeks we might but I mean we like to keep it going and then because when it 's when you come on the show you 'd be such a be such a terrific let down |
| 28 | After years of hard work , I think we 've got it looking as we want it to . ’ |
| 29 | Which is unfortunate the way we 've got it numbered but that 'll do . |
| 30 | because he could n't get to there you see so I said well it 'll have to go now , well we 've got it shifted and it 's thrown away and , and that 's the end of that , so I says now when she does decide to come and she wants to be in here , well I said she 'll just have to carry a mattress in , and that 'll be alright just for her to sleep on |