Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] it [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well it 's a it 's a it 's a place and it 's a g-girl and a boy … and the-they 've got obviously something which is is made some made made made well it 's just beginning to go and be rather unpleasant ( ha ! ha ! ) um and this is in the this is the the woman and she 's put putting some stuff and the it 's it 's that 's being really too big t-to do and nobody seems to have got anything there at all at all and er it 's … |
| 2 | very careful with a protractor and the protractor you 've got not it 's not gon na really do a fifty one point |
| 3 | Yeah , I , I 'm suggesting that the facilities management contract , be referred to the budget review sub-committee for consideration , and in that way we can actually consider it , and obviously if the report is not yet prepared , erm , perhaps we can put some input into it , I have to say , that it disturbs me to be given an answer , that do n't worry everybody , there 's a report coming , and then we suddenly say well , we might like to look at it in three weeks time , we 're told actually it 's not written yet . |
| 4 | Fable 45 in R. Dodsley 's Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists ( 1798 ) describes a man buying a parrot because he is so impressed by the bird 's saying ‘ I think the more ’ when asked why it is not chattering like the other parrots in the shop . |
| 5 | As we have already seen , if speech is to be recorded clearly it is best picked up by an extension microphone positioned close to the speaker . |