Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
15 | What are you looking for cos it 's got ta be linked to what you 're applying for if you 're applying |
16 | put this program in and you swap it for this er map disk , then it comes up , you tell it where you are , where you going to and it works your route out |
17 | Er that as far as we know is the referee 's confirmed that it was offside and actually if you look at that it was offside . |
18 | So you end up with a particle if you look at that it 's particles about two or three mills square . |
19 | Erm if you look at that it looks as if you spend a bit more on presents than stationery . |
20 | You sound as if it 's all in a day 's work . |
21 | that you worrying about and it me means a bit more work for us |
22 | BELVILLE : I have no reason to be ashamed of that duel you refer to since it was to save a friend , but suffer not your tongue to take too great a liberty with my Pamela . |
23 | She swallowed as if it caused her pain , her face screwed up . |
24 | You talk about if it 's something you 're used to you talk about something and you know what you 're talking of and somebody a bit like actual |
25 | ‘ You talk as if it was an interesting academic problem , ’ Claire snarled . |
26 | ‘ Jesus , you talk as if it 's booby-trapped or something . |
27 | but sometimes you feel as if it 's going to jerk you |
28 | ‘ The trouble is she feels as if it were her fault . |
29 | It was rather a horrid mist ; you felt as if it might be concealing peering , grinning creatures who were being very careful to stay just out of sight , but who were creeping after you as you rode along , or who were tiptoeing on ahead of you , rubbing their hands together , waiting until you reached them … |
30 | Next , her long red hair was pulled so hard she felt as if it was going to come out by the roots . |