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

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1 What I think we 're saying on this side of the house , I do n't know if we 're saying it loud enough or it 's going to have effect , is that we must reduce the number of rules and regulations , you do n't actually need the body which the honourable member 's talking about .
2 Better that it 's used to revamp the old chestnut about ‘ how many electricians does it take to change a lightbulb ? ’ in the form of ‘ how many reissues does it take to relaunch a band 's career ? ’
3 ‘ Everything official here seems to be tied up in red tape , so although it 's taking a long time I 'm sure the licence is being processed , ’ she declared defiantly .
4 Especially that it 's headed by Mrs Grigorovich , Natalya Bessmertnova .
5 So with this this stone could be built in so that it 's facing the road could n't it ?
6 rotates a vector so that it 's pointing in completely the opposite
7 They 've er they 've done fairly well there with Perhaps if it 's happen to be a time when I 'm busy Richard you might do it as vice chairman .
8 I did n't really look at him , though I immediately smelled alcohol on his breath , and thought , that firm is n't going to last long if it 's sending out drunken drivers to pick up clients .
9 ‘ But I always watch chimps alone and it 's spoilt Gombe for me . ’
10 Only if it 's damaged in the normal course of play , ’ said Stevie .
11 So if it 's goes , der der der der !
12 Were sending February news letters so if it 's starting in March
13 Okay so it 's being fairly cloudy this morning around er , well the last half hour or so and it 's going to black for a fair while across lunchtime .
14 Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ?
15 Especially if it 's written by one of them .
16 ‘ I do n't care much for it myself , Lieutenant , especially if it 's a military plane and even more especially if it 's carrying bombs of any sort .
17 The cot is sure to get grubby , especially if it 's going in the boot of the car .
18 ‘ I 'm getting a case together and it 's going in the right direction .
19 We have n't yet found a UK outlet for Star Trek : The Screen Saver , but no doubt it wo n't be long before it 's beamed over .
20 Extraordinarily powerful and detailed American serial killer first novel that lingers in the mind long after it 's finished .
21 Only when it 's misdirected .
22 Only when it 's ringing .
23 Though she has every confidence in the Trust , and particularly in John Sales , the Trust 's Chief Gardens Adviser , it is no easy thing to relinquish control of your life 's work — especially when it 's situated right under your nose .
24 But against the sky , especially when it 's beginning to get dark …
25 So when it 's added to harmful substances , it makes them unpalatable .
26 David has a theory that the crop grows better when it 's exposed to music .
27 ‘ I quite like that one , chief But I ca n't see exactly where it 's leading to . ’
28 Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person .
29 It 's just that it 's running out rather quickly ,
30 There is a stony silence , Dolores hides her head and turns away and it 's left to Fergal to say in solemn tones :
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