Example sentences of "i [verb] [coord] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 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 | I know but it 's not all that sort it 's erm I mean you enjoyed it |
| 4 | I know but it 's just , waste of time in it ? they 'd been better spent to finish the order that they did have , and inject that , ha oh be fair to do that to use though , no doubt they will , pick out all the things we did n't do right bloody should done too many of this or not enough of that |
| 5 | Yeah , I know but it 's just when she 's sort of having to sit down all the time . |
| 6 | Yeah , I know but it 's there . |
| 7 | I know but it 's only giving you one |
| 8 | Yeah I know but it 's so funny . |
| 9 | Mm , I know but it 's so stupid though in n it ? |
| 10 | he 's a little , aye I know but he 's , yeah I know but it was n't for a week was it ? |
| 11 | I mean it was a bit loud because it was live music I suppose but it was n't a bad night . |
| 12 | but I looked and it was actually |
| 13 | And I I went but it was so embarrassing it made me ill . |
| 14 | yes young people and he has a hat which I love but it 's quite crazy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought it was a weakness I had but it was n't — it proved to be my strength . |
| 17 | This is what a girl in Borstal meant when she said to me , ‘ I gave him everything I had but it was n't enough ’ . |
| 18 | We set everything in monotype , and all these display headline faces copied out of old type books and then I left and it was almost like people were saying ‘ now what ’ , erm ‘ what are you going to do after that ? ’ and I said ‘ what do you mean ? ’ . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | He wanted what I wanted and it was n't love or commitment or really even friendship ( although he called it that ) . |