Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 So , I mean , all you do is get , I mean this and this has been down well it 's , obviously it 's been down since it opened , now I ca n't remember when Brewer actually opened
2 Well i it 's been down since it opened so that 's
3 I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started .
4 Make sure you 're there when it happens .
5 In theatres all over the rest of the country The Tart and the Vicar 's Wife packs them in , and has been ever since it opened in Preston in February 1986 .
6 Reality Therapy involves confronting the sufferer with the reality of life as perceived by others and helping him or her gradually to change the perception of how life should be so that it comes nearer to how life actually is .
7 On one level it is yet another accident , and on a second level it is inevitable , it must be so because it belongs here and nowhere else , as the foreign restaurant bill belongs to a novel about human birds of passage , and as the whistle belongs to a novel , in fact the only late Dostoevsky novel , with no children in it but haunted by the toys of absent innocence and peace : the governor of ‘ our province ’ where these crazy terrible events take place was disappointed in love as a young man and consoled himself by making a paper theatre with curtains , actors , audience , orchestra , conductor — the lot .
8 But in its more extended and generalized uses it can become remarkably similar to the ‘ informing spirit ’ of idealist cultural theories , and this can still be so when it offers ( but does not include or specify ) a ‘ last instance ’ referral to the economy or to the mode of production .
9 If scio was not thought adequate at classical law , the reason can be only that it did not make sufficiently clear that the testator intended a trustee to be legally obliged to make property over to a beneficiary .
10 It won' be long before it finishes it 's only
11 There was a time Clan Gillian could put two hundred galleys to the water , but that time is past , and it may be long till it comes again .
12 The Maud Committee thought half a dozen should be enough and it followed that each committee would be concerned with a wider range of matters than the existing committees .
13 I 'm not as it goes !
14 But the third would be best because it deals with the essential needs involved .
15 He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ?
16 I came to the Putney Young Women 's Christian Association Hostel to be near the hospital , and went to Fulham Congregational Church , so as to be near when IT happened .
17 Would rather a cat be out cos it wants to be out .
18 ‘ The water is rising all the time and I would n't like to be around when it does overflow .
19 ‘ And I would n't like to be around when it happens . ’
20 Throughout his career he seemed to be around when it happened but the finger of accusation rarely pointed in his direction .
21 One particularly cold winter I gave in but stipulated that I must n't be around when it happened .
22 Where plot might be jettisoned , story is retained as a principle of connection : ‘ Once the story is launched it must go on it must follow its course however crooked it may be even if it takes the wrong direction ’ ( 1976b ) .
23 Will you be here when it comes , do you think ?
24 She thought : I must be here because it does n't matter to me much whether I live or die .
25 It is simply the case that the party should be there while it intends to govern Northern Ireland and it should be exerting itself to offer the voters a real alternative to sectarian politics .
26 One way to endure severe abuse is not to be there when it happens .
27 Then at least the fear wo n't be there if it does .
28 And the green wo n't be there if it 's been irradiated .
29 Dealers from all over the UK will be there and it sounds like a historians .
30 Come to think of it , Columbia would n't have been around if it had n't been for the blues .
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