Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] it [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 He was always crafty , he 'd hit me where it was covered , on the body and the legs , never on my face .
2 If I if it was sat trying to make an appointment with you for example er and I do n't know too much about the product we 're just getting
3 And when I When it was opened out for me going to Deerness , well that was a great event .
4 A home-made notice informed me that it was kept by M. McDougall , who also did bed and breakfasts .
5 ‘ It has no name , ’ Sapan said , ‘ but when I told some other people I brought here that it had no name , they said to me that it was called Narnia . ’
6 Did n't you tell me that it was stolen ?
7 Baynton v. Morgan shows , amongst other things , that this last contention may not always be relied on by the lessee ; and accordingly the position of the defendant is not put otherwise than favourably to himself if it is said that the measure of his liability here , that of a lessee after an assignment , is the performance or non-performance of the covenants in question by his assignees when he can not and does not aver any performance by himself .
8 In October 1912 Hourcade wrote : ‘ The term ‘ Cubism ’ … means nothing if it is used to designate a school : there is no school of Cubist painting .
9 She rapped on his door , swung it open and stood in the doorway , not trusting either of them if it was shut .
10 We do n't want to upset them and it 's bound to smooth itself out in time . "
11 The McGuires had another son and daughter , Hugh and Jacobina , but little is known of them and it is presumed that they both died young .
12 A critic had coined a phrase for them and it was taken up as a catch phrase — ‘ They dance as one woman and what a woman . ’
13 One of the factors is that it is a simple format , involving everyone and it is done with gusto and enthusiasm .
14 The soot would be everywhere — halfway up the tunnel sides , but mostly on me , and certainly none where it was intended .
15 I can only tell you that it is intended to be read by a very limited circle of people in the medical profession .
16 It tells you that it is reported very crisply , very briefly .
17 Ask anyone about vitamin C and they will be able to tell you that it is found in oranges — but would they also know that it is in melons and tomatoes ?
18 According to Willis there is the hypothesis that skilled workers create a culture which is complete in itself and it is centred round an involvement , even excitement , in the technological process , its tasks and activities .
19 Simple things like the rain on the window pane , the cat mewing to come in or the noise of a bus which could be on top of you before it is seen .
20 At first the language helper repeats each phrase for you as it is played back and you write it down , but your aim should be that when you have worked out a phonemic script for the language you teach the language helper to transcribe texts for you .
21 Fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you , so that you may guard ( against evil ) Surrah 11 , 183
22 It does n't take steps to repair wear and tear , or to right itself when it is knocked over , the way a living body does .
23 Another possibility presented itself when it was noted the town of Renfrew had a small airfield that would site the aircraft much closer to the docks .
24 And you you will know as well in relation to Policy H one that it was said that if fact development housing development in particular 's kept pace more or less with the er the policy of er the the policy set out in the structure plan .
25 When Vo Quy was young — and was the local schoolteacher and an enthusiastic amateur ornithologist — his village still had its own rainforest , one that it was committed to protect .
26 The description is a valid one provided it is remembered that he does not build on special or peculiar ‘ religious experiences ’ of a mystical or emotional kind .
27 erm it 's an old one and it 's called Fancy Fish and we were sorting our videos out to list 'em and then we 'll make a list and then we 'd let you have and then if you want a video and that , you know what you got and we were looking through this Fancy Fish and it 's erm I do n't know if you remember it , it shows an open show at Oxford
28 There 's the odd exception where I 've picked up a brand new one and it 's worked right away .
29 Piper had started using Red Indian names for its aircraft and when it inherited the ‘ poor man 's Dakota ’ from Stinson the double fin and rudder layout was replaced with a single one and it was decided to call it the Apache .
30 Scepticism is the familiar name given to the appropriateness of doubting the reliability of something until it is proved beyond shadow of doubt .
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