Example sentences of "it [conj] [verb] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only a one-sided lock , which is completely and totally different to an ordinary lock er working both sides , you see what I mean and er I er I 'd got to er make a key , number thirty-nine just like that , see but I had it and I could find out what thirty-nine was and I could make them one and send it and knowing it would fit see and er when they had different people working there , you know staff , things like that , not a lot of orders but er somebody else come . |
| 2 | This picture , the third in Faye 's series , focused more fully on her face and the likeness of features and form was very good , but it showed her with such a yearning , wistful expression that everyone who saw it and knew her would think her life had been one long secret sorrow . |
| 3 | Divorce is common enough for even young children to be aware of it and to fear you may split up . |
| 4 | She loved it and wished she could stay there forever . |
| 5 | wait a bit , and they said so , they looked at it and said we 'd have to take it back in a few days time for them to do , they could n't do it there and then . |
| 6 | But he knew that he was right and , much more , he felt that he was good , that he had been given this chance to act well , that he must take it and to take it would get him off on a new and better path ; while to succumb would be the broad and easy road to hell . |
| 7 | We 've talked about it and decided we 'd move in here , in Tom 's cottage . |
| 8 | We could then leave it and say we 'll pick it up in an hour or so |