Example sentences of "it [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why was it everyone seemed to go for the easy way out ? |
| 2 | If , if you get it if you get it everyone has it I think I 'm doing a little bit what we did last night Excuse me . |
| 3 | Is it only senior management at planning meetings or is it everyone involved in achieving it ? |
| 4 | No none of you do now but when he first suggested it everyone was up in arms and he poor old soul I remembered he said , I 've had enough change I I believe in this I I 've I 've tried I 'm too old now and out he walked . |
| 5 | Well no not really because erm it , it was a private company as you can understand er , I can I ca n't really explain it everyone seemed to be pulling together you know that was the last thing you thought of , fifth columnists , things like that although it was they used to er , every now and again they used to send government national service officers round to look at the personnel and the structure of the working and if they thought anybody was superfluous to requirements they 'd get the papers soon after to go into the army or the services yeah , yeah , that is true and that happened , used to happen in factories all round the area , it was called the Essential Works Order . |
| 6 | I 'm thinking I ca n't believe you 're saying this but I wanted to photocopy it and show it everyone you see |
| 7 | They like it everyone is sort of their trundling around , the library is showing up for lunch . |
| 8 | Why is it everyone goes for the most difficult car parking spot ? |
| 9 | Most folk enjoy a day at the seaside … but Hereford 's hopes went out with the tide … they were washed away after only three minutes when Lightbourne made it one-nil … |
| 10 | Town failed to spot the danger and sure enough Portsmouth and Durnin were back after the break : Walsh had a free run and Oxford 's old striker a real blast to make it one-nil . |
| 11 | and you 'd have probably written them off when Leicester won a penalty … it looked more like a slip than a push but Thompson 's kick made it one-nil at half-time … |
| 12 | Another is , in either case , what exactly would constitute greater or lesser logic ( since I take it no-one is claiming that any speaker communicates in propositional calculus ) . |
| 13 | Camb had searched that handbag and found in it nothing but make-up and a little money . |
| 14 | We all thrive on competition ; without it nothing happens . |
| 15 | ‘ Is it nothing in your eyes never to bring accusation against anyone ? |
| 16 | Of his conscious will he had given it nothing , except a single ruler where there had been two . |
| 17 | When desires disrupt co-operation their spontaneity is evident , when they support it nothing proves that they were not instilled in the first place by moral training . |
| 18 | I bought the DesignaKnit 4 Professional some months back and I feel I have to give it nothing but praise . |
| 19 | As far as its lyrics are concerned , ‘ Creep ’ is a dark , desperate trawl through unrequited obsession , heavy on self-loathing and personal inadequacy ; not an easy song to listen to , but one whose disquieting subject matter makes it nothing short of stunning . |
| 20 | Stamford 's attorney calls it nothing short of blackmail . |
| 21 | I 've tried everything for it nothing 's any good . |
| 22 | Samuel Johnson , the lexicographer and wit was among those who , given the mortality rates of seamen and their privations on board , thought it nothing less than cruel for a father to take Campbell 's advice and commit his son to a life at sea . |
| 23 | And it nothing happened . |
| 24 | If you do n't talk about it nothing will happen , and this problem is n't going to go away , it needs to be solved . |
| 25 | and it nothing s , it did n't seem to survive . |
| 26 | Was it someone she knew ? |
| 27 | ‘ I take it someone has forgotten to come out and meet you . ’ |
| 28 | Or was it someone you knew before our time together ? |
| 29 | And was the mysterious woman the murder victim or was it someone else ? |
| 30 | He sees nothing immoral in his business : if he did n't do it someone else would , he says . |