Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked if it could print in scales of grey upon computer labels , he closed his eyes , shook his head and insisted he did n't know . |
| 2 | I asked if it was foreign and she said that it was . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I asked if it was for himself or his mother . |
| 4 | I read a lot of books , and I knew the theory of it very well , but I failed when it came to the practice . |
| 5 | ‘ If you do n't ask him with 100 percent commitment and effort he wo n't do it , yet the feeling I got when it suddenly clicked was just amazing ! ’ |
| 6 | As for the other end , Fraxilly , I doubted whether it was important enough to have any spies watching it . |
| 7 | Dry-eyed , I acquiesced when it finally hit the bag of clothes for ‘ Poor Peggy , she 's you-know-what-again , God help her ’ , and I 'm delighted to say I have n't given it a thought since . |
| 8 | I figured if it was a security precaution it 'd probably work fast . ’ |
| 9 | and then you become to understand that , that half of you just disappeared , the way I feel I felt like it 's just a shell left and all the inside just gone out and I 've |
| 10 | No I meant when it goes up you need little things now and again . |
| 11 | I suppose I offered because it was my . |
| 12 | ‘ I knew because it 's got a band of those black and white checks across the bonnet and the roof and running down the back . |
| 13 | I knew if it had been the other way round , if it was Robert I had to ask , he would have said , ‘ On yer bike . ’ ’ |
| 14 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 15 | I mean , I thought since it 's my house , sort of , it would be all right . |
| 16 | No , I thought if it was a man it was a president and it was a woman it was Prime Minister . |
| 17 | I thought if it makes it growl only . |
| 18 | I thought if it 's disqualifying , if you were disqualified then income support pays normal |
| 19 | No I , I , I sort of smelt Patrick 's feet once and I thought if it was possible to faint on smells then I was going to , you know . |
| 20 | I went cos it was then I goes to Pete , oh no I ought to go out really , and he goes no you 're not ! |
| 21 | It had n't er I went when it opened . |
| 22 | When I enquired if it was Miss or Mrs Hauxwell , she said , ‘ Oh no , no , no — Miss by name and Miss by nature , that 's what my uncle always said ’ . |
| 23 | I feel today the excitement of that encounter almost as keenly as I did when it took place over fifty years ago . |
| 24 | I chose the example I did because it gave an important history of another library , Glasgow , and because it had also belonged at one time to the Guildhall Library , which had passed it on to them . |
| 25 | I chose the St Edmund Hall book I did because it was by a contemporary politician , and also because it was representative of one of the largest classes of dispersed books , those used by the immediately preceding generation : that is , those published in the fifties and sixties . |
| 26 | I just , I did n't put , sort of , what I did because it 's work experience |
| 27 | Oh I looked up about the last , the last essay I did cos it was about erm |
| 28 | She was always quiet , which I liked because it gave me a chance to talk without interruption . |
| 29 | I said cos it 's smells the place ! |
| 30 | I said cos it 's not very good |