Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it 's [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I I 've got a letter from the Department of the Environment and the Home Office saying that , er and th and because of that it 's taking them this long to actually get these byelaws effected . |
| 2 | But if you practise it sitting down , your voice 'll be very different , the speed of your voice will be different , and if you do n't practise it out loud you wo n't be able to get any idea of whether it 's going to take three minutes or not . |
| 3 | But the roller is terribly stiff , as if it 's blocked and needs force to work . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Jesus , you talk as if it 's booby-trapped or something . |
| 5 | ‘ Sounds as if it 's trying to break into one of the containers . ’ |
| 6 | And that 's virtually all it says but it goes over the words again and again , as if it 's trying to force you to rejoice through learning the words off by rote . |
| 7 | Does n't look as if it 's moving at all to me . |
| 8 | Mm , see one of the dangers of just reading the bible is that you have to be careful you do n't fall into the pitfall of just reading it when if you do then it 'll all look as if it 's pointing towards the only way out is heaven |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | This , this train looks as if it 's sticking its tongue out . |
| 11 | Train looks as if it 's sticking its |
| 12 | ‘ That storm still looks as if it 's building up to me , ’ said Jimmy . |
| 13 | I 've got , I feel as if it 's getting and I do n't know if it 's erm to be |
| 14 | as if it 's gon na pour out there is n't it ? |
| 15 | This is a unhelpful because it 's winding that way yet it looks as if it 's winding that way , does n't it ? |
| 16 | It looks as if it 's recording , but every time I press Play … |
| 17 | It looks as if it 's reeling on to that spool . |
| 18 | But it sounds as if it 's paid off . |
| 19 | But this just sounds too thin — as if it 's going to cut your brain in half . |
| 20 | Graham says that if the set-up is a success — and it certainly looks as if it 's going to be — he may take on more charity tanks in the future . |
| 21 | But these days , if it looks as if it 's going to be nasty , I take the easy way out . |
| 22 | ‘ My face looks as if it 's going to drop off a fruit tree , ’ he said at himself . |
| 23 | but sometimes you feel as if it 's going to jerk you |
| 24 | So it looks as if it 's going off to infinity or something , but |
| 25 | ‘ It looks as if it 's going to rain . |
| 26 | Does n't look as if it 's going to be dry to me . |
| 27 | It looks to me as if it 's going to blooming rain again . |
| 28 | I 'm never sure if they eat this weed cos it does n't look as if it 's going anywhere . |
| 29 | Yes please , is the helicopter sounds as if it 's going to the hospital , oh yes , look there it is , ever so close , can you see it Tim ? |
| 30 | There 's actually a very different difficult problem with sexual harassment , which is that erm there are occasions when it looks as if it 's going to be difficult for a college not to go ahead , even when the victim has withdrawn her or his complaint . |