Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the reasons I do it , ’ he explains ‘ is because my wife and I can spend time alone together away from the family , feel young again ( they 're both in their early 40's ) , and have adventures . ’ |
| 2 | This was strapped so tightly around my ankles I think it stopped the circulation in my feet . |
| 3 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
| 4 | he he 's got ta do this thirty hours I think it is |
| 5 | Slightly convex with fleur-de-lys on a shield , the lettering is very ornate but after many hours I read it as AVE MARIA GRAVIA . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , compared to the leave they get in the big houses I suppose it is ; half a day a month for some of them , and then no leave at all if they 're known to come from the workhouse , or one of the settlements . |
| 7 | There was only a tiny little row in between two streets , there was about six houses I think it was . |
| 8 | five minutes I think it is . |
| 9 | I could n't tell you how , but it I , cos you 'd , I do n't want nothing , but when I did , I 'd got ta use my ingenuity to get something that I could get one or two or a dozen or ten off , you know what I mean , and I got ta make it and a lot of times I made it out of wood which was easily er you know treated . |
| 10 | I know times I get it , like maybe just at one side , if I 've been sitting in a hard seat |
| 11 | The awful , abrupt finality of a man pitching forward , so easily , so arbitrarily terminated — the convenience of it to the killer : they were things to which I could never become habituated , however many times I saw it . |
| 12 | ‘ I have done so much with Middlesbrough that at times I think it might be nice to go elsewhere and start afresh . |
| 13 | Yeah , well I 've only got the one I 've only got the one erm golly how long have I had that yellow must have had it four years or more I 've only worn it about three times I think it 's erm a telly mac and it 's a yellow one erm and it is a bit longer so all these go underneath it , quite well |
| 14 | Although it was only about two shillings I think it was a lot of money for her you know . |
| 15 | Oh eleven shillings I think it was eleven shillings a week . |
| 16 | With the verbal arts I think it can only be done for the moment by writing about nature . |
| 17 | ‘ Once I heard her start singing the songs I knew it had to be her , ’ he says . |
| 18 | The worse thing I 've ever done is wax for my legs I did it once mhm |
| 19 | But if I run through the addresses I think it 'll make sense because everybody will recognize where they are . |
| 20 | and another morning there 's a stream of cars I think it 's being one minute ear early or one minute late |
| 21 | Right I think it 's about twelve months I think it was . |
| 22 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
| 23 | I think it 's really relevant to the pictures I think it 's really good . |
| 24 | I said I 'd make it up to you , and when I make amends I do it thoroughly . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ When the manager wanted me to work out in the reserves I accepted it . |
| 26 | In all other respects I agree it is an entirely accurate record of the event . ’ |
| 27 | property thus recoverable developed a set of legal characteristics which caused it to differ considerably from property which was recoverable only by a personal action ; and so , though the real actions have long been abolished , and for a still longer time disused , the differences between real and personal property survived . |
| 28 | It has , of course , many other characteristics , of which companionship and mutual support is an important one , but the characteristics which distinguish it from all other relationships can only be met by two persons of the opposite sex . |
| 29 | The farm business has a number of characteristics which set it apart from other small-scale enterprises . |
| 30 | Or are we to suppose that Capitalism having been displaced by Socialism in the Marxist version , work with all the disagreeable characteristics which turn it into toil or boredom will have been reduced to the bare minimum necessary to sustain society and that a consequent and vast increase in the leisure will enable us to fulfil ourselves ? |