Example sentences of "he [verb] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | him breathalysed although it was n't |
| 2 | Let him wonder if it was just a casual remark . |
| 3 | ‘ Tell Mr. McCloy it 's no dice , ’ I heard him say and it was then I said had he got a match ? |
| 4 | A st'lyan ate up the ground like no horse he had ever encountered , and although at first he had estimated that a verst , the basic unit of Tarvarian distance , was equivalent to about a kilometre , now he realised that it was probably more than twice that . |
| 5 | But the stabbing pain in his eardrums was almost welcome , as the roaring subsided to a grumbling , faraway avalanche and he realised that it was only the sound of the storm . |
| 6 | In Claude Berri 's latest film , ‘ Uranus ’ , he knocks back a whole bottle of wine without pausing for breath ; although he insists that it was merely coloured water , his fans believe otherwise . |
| 7 | First , he argued that it is highly artificial to construe all consumption as a response to needs ; while this approach may seem illuminating when it is applied to the consumption of individuals , it can not plausibly be extended to productive consumption , which has to be treated as ‘ the consumption which satisfies the needs of production ’ , if the theory is to be sustained . |
| 8 | He argued that it is too simplistic , and indeed ethnocentric , to dismiss such peoples as irrational and unscientific . |
| 9 | When Secretary of State Marshall was cabling the Embassy in Paris that Ho Chi Minh had direct Communist connections — whether or not this was a fact depends upon what one means by ‘ connection ’ — he argued that it was also a fact that colonial empires , in the l9th-century sense , were rapidly becoming a thing of the past . |
| 10 | Far from arguing that the Bill did nothing , he argued that it was too draconian . |
| 11 | While he strongly believes that violence produces results ( presumably by dramatising the point in question ) he agrees that it is morally wrong . |
| 12 | Soon , however , he realized that it was neither of these . |
| 13 | But now that Lorenzini had mentioned him he realized that it was n't . |
| 14 | He admitted that it was not easy , and said that , in effect , what one did was to get them to read the first chapter of any book by Derrida . |
| 15 | He thinks that it is more important to convince doctors that ‘ teaching ’ is a broad term and covers much of what they do every day and to ensure that they receive adequate training and support to carry it out well . |
| 16 | He had a pile of comics there which he read until it was too dark to see . |
| 17 | Little did he know that it was n't a smile , but a grimace of pain . |
| 18 | He found that it is not unusual in some industries for prices to individual buyers to remain unchanged for several years . |
| 19 | He adds that it is not in the traders ' interests for the elephants to die out . |
| 20 | Professor Simmonds is correct when he says that it is very hard to isolate the part played by railways in the growth of towns and the development of the countryside from all the other economic and social factors of the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | He says that it 's not worth staying on if the place is going to be wrecked . |
| 22 | He says that it 's very spectacular . |
| 23 | He says that it was half it 's normal weight . |
| 24 | He says that it was very difficult to get some of the cows out , because they were so frightened of the flames . |
| 25 | He says if it 's not cut down it literally chokes the jungle and so every four or five years the mangrove is cut and then it grows again like a blackthorn or hawthorn hedge would grow . |
| 26 | And he done and it 's all over this bear . |
| 27 | Will he ensure that it is not unfairly excluded as a result of the foreign dumping of inferior chain ? |
| 28 | This drew Boulton 's attention to it and he noticed that it was rather unusual . |
| 29 | But he added that it was not normal to find such evidence . |
| 30 | But he added that it was too early to try to determine ‘ the exact nature of the wiretaps and the identity of those responsible . ’ |