Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often I stay longer in the shop than I mean to because it smells so good . |
| 2 | And you 'll come to understand exactly what I mean by that it 's all about three dimensional space . |
| 3 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 4 | Somehow I feel as if it were purer — certainly it would be honester- ‘ to do the thing we fear ’ . |
| 5 | I 'll tell you this ; every term when I watch that school train go out I feel as if it 's taking two-thirds of me with it . ’ |
| 6 | It 's for a , a couple of weeks there it was n't too bad , but now I feel as if it 's . |
| 7 | I feel as if it 's really deep , |
| 8 | I 've got , I feel as if it 's getting and I do n't know if it 's erm to be |
| 9 | It 's a bit more expensive than the other machines I looked at but it has a bigger hard disk , local bus video and a lengthy warranty . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke , I will , ’ I said as if it was the one thing in the world I wanted to do . |
| 11 | I had to as it 's very difficult to throw up decently when you 're upside down . |
| 12 | I leaped as if it had been fired at me , and shrieked at Posi . |
| 13 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 14 | All her attention was on her first bite of bread which tasted as if it had come straight from Paradise . |
| 15 | The only let-downs are cabin styling which looks as if it was lifted directly from the Corolla and an overall lack of identity . |
| 16 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |
| 17 | This is the reason for the internal head-band in helmets which looks as if it was put in in order to provide ventilation . |
| 18 | Two walls are broken by windows , a third is occupied by the fireplace ; a battered electric cooker and an old sink , which looks as if it were last used to dip sheep , stand on either side of another locked and bolted door . |
| 19 | There is a smaller bedroom and a tiny , suspiciously tidy kitchen , which looks as if it is not often used . |
| 20 | Whatever the reasons , a large number of people soon began to work on string theory and a new version was developed , the so-called heterotic string , which seemed as if it might be able to explain the types of particles that we observe . |
| 21 | The prison did little to lighten their mood : grey frowning walls with a few sombre buildings peeping above them , and a black gateway with an arch which yawned as if it wished to devour any unfortunate who approached it . |
| 22 | The American film-maker Maya Deren says somewhere that ‘ response should always precede analysis ’ , a remark which sounds as if it was made as an artist 's challenge to academic dryness and formalism . |
| 23 | This additional information can be very useful indeed in saving the researcher from looking up an article which sounds as if it would be useful from the title , but which , in fact , is not relevant to one 's particular interest . |
| 24 | Her hair , which looked as if it had been inexpertly permed , was pulled back at the sides but frizzed over the high forehead in the poodle-like fashion of an Edwardian . |
| 25 | He was a stocky fifty-eight-year-old with grey hair and a small goatee beard which looked as if it had been stuck on to his chin with glue . |
| 26 | A flower-print dress was draped across the back of the chair , and there was a brown battered suitcase on the floor at her feet , which looked as if it had been pulled out from beneath the bed . |
| 27 | The most striking feature of his appearance was a sheepskin jacket which looked as if it had seen better days , sometime in the late nineteen seventies . |
| 28 | She was wearing a tight sort of dress in shiny , slippery silk , which looked as if it had been painted on to her body . |
| 29 | And before very long you found yourself involved with a project which looked as if it was actually going to take over your life . |
| 30 | As far as the , the cottage er was concerned , the information about that erm the answer was oh well you know I do n't make any money out of it erm you , you asked about whether it , whether it was erm whether it was making money but you di you did n't actually ask , bearing in mind that , that , that Maggie had already said she paid tax , whether she actually de declared it for tax purposes and what , what sort , what sort of figure it showed . |