Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb infin] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 What would I mean if it was n't , if it was if it was erm think of another U K customer .
2 I 'm an ex-carer , and I looked after my aunt for three and a half years , and could I say that it 's not all negative although it times you could scream !
3 Erm , can I say that it 's only last year that we organised that video for secured car parks , and employed a blooming outside presenter to do it , and that cost us twelve thousand quid , and that were at Derby and they made an excellent bloody video of it did n't they ?
4 As treasurer of our appeal , may I say that it was very disappointing that , first of all , the council members and the town clerk did not accept our invitation to the opening of our appeal , on March 11th .
5 Well do n't you think that it 's really rather improper for you to be doing this ?
6 Which is why the eternal words , ‘ Do you think that it 's about time we started a family ? ’ rarely fall from men 's lips .
7 So let us look at the present day , and to take this wording , do you consider that it is now appropriate that Skelton should expand any further ?
8 Caspar , genuinely appalled , said , ‘ But do n't you know that it 's almost the most dangerous place in the whole of Ireland ? ’
9 But do you know that it 's actually saved you from losing any of these employees .
10 Do you know that it is far better to train by reward than by punishment ?
11 So what do you , I mean do you get on alright with the management or do you feel that it 's mostly , is the management mostly male and do you feel that er there should maybe be a wee bit more representation for the women workers in management ?
12 Do you feel that it was then you had proved yourself in broadcasting ?
13 Do you feel like it 's almost like doing a different thing that you 're not , you know when you 're actually acting in the play you 're more self conscious and you 're more conscious of what you 're you 're moving and you 're speaking and whereas the likes of the panto you know you just be yourself really with a bit of fun thrown in .
14 There are charts and general guides available to help you decide but it is still difficult to pinpoint an exact weight at which you will be just right .
15 But would you admit that it was n't any doings of the Tory group that brought that four hundred thousand pounds in ?
16 very clear , you 've got two officers with shotguns , do you mean that it 's just he gave his shotgun to him and vice versa or you nominated two different shotguns ?
17 But how did you get when it 's usually five ?
18 Could you check whether it 's just one or
19 ‘ Why ca n't you accept that it was n't your fault ?
20 But how do we know that it is vocationally advantageous to study history or to put it the other way round , that to study history is not vocationally disadvantageous ?
21 How could we check if it is actually ninety and we 've got it wrong .
22 It made me wonder whether it was all worth it .
23 Not only that , it made me wonder if it was not time to give the game another chance .
24 I will be able to bring what is going on here in science back to the children in the classroom , and make them realise that it is not so far away from what they are learning about .
25 The survey also made me realise that it was not enough to have read about the early beginnings of any religion ; one needed to study it as a living faith and see the development of thought and interpretation .
26 I said and that 's why cos Paul said to me , he said , I never hear you moan , I said look you wo n't hear me moan because it 's not that I enjoy the job I hate the job I said I hate the work , and I find it hard work but at the end of the day on a Friday , I know that six o'clock in the morning on a Friday I can go up to the Nationwide Anglia , slip my card in there and I know there 's gon na be a couple of hundred of quid in there with the
27 ( Parenthetically , let me admit that it is n't easy to resist cracking all those nut jokes .
28 Let him wonder if it was just a casual remark .
29 ‘ Tell Mr. McCloy it 's no dice , ’ I heard him say and it was then I said had he got a match ?
30 Little did he know that it was n't a smile , but a grimace of pain .
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