Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb mod] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh he adores her , oh yes he wants her back , and I said , she said , I , you see , I know him , I said there 's a lot to be said for a chap that you know inside , know his ways and know how to cope with them , but I said never ever put yourself at his mercy , I 'm marrying him , and the house will be hers , you see , when there properly divorced it 'll be in her name so if he starts coming the old soldier , she can bung him out . |
| 2 | The point I 'm trying to get at sir is that erm it is none of it is in none of our interests , either the planning authorities or even of the developers , that if we were to erm find a strategic sites policy appropriate for this alteration , it 's in none of our interests that it should be confusing to the public or to the development industry as to how rare a thing this should be and how tightly directed it should be in geographical terms . |
| 3 | When Andy invited me to the launch of the The Gadget Shop I naively assumed it would be in the shop itself , in Covent Garden . |
| 4 | So Janet , your question , which is not as I in , intimated it might be at all , so you , you can be well annoyed , erm , if you 're setting up a , a joint life policy with waiver premium on both people , and the wife is fifty one , and the husband is forty , how much will be deducted from their units according to waiver of premiums ? |
| 5 | A very early and most interesting use of this technique was that of Jahoda who asked young people at school to write an essay about their first day at work and what they envisaged it would be like . |
| 6 | I thought long and hard about it but in the end I decided it would be for the best . |
| 7 | Mr O'Connor 's management decided it would be in the best interest of all concerned for the event to be postponed giving the theatre management seven days ' notice , enabling ticket holders to be contacted . |
| 8 | Because if if it broke it 'd be like all my fault . |
| 9 | Huy hoped that when he died it would be in the desert or on the river , so that the vultures or the crocodiles would take him . |
| 10 | I share my hon Friend 's appreciation of the value and importance of the large reforms proposed in the Bill of 1939 , and when I decided , as I announced on 23rd March , to appoint an Advisory Council to assist in the preparation of a programme of reforms , I certainly had it in mind that many of the proposals in that Bill — improved it may be by further consideration and fresh ideas — might find a place in such a programme . |
| 11 | However , they felt it would be in his best interests to send him there , because of the number of times he has run away from council care . |
| 12 | However , they felt it would be in his best interests to send him there , because of the number of times he has run away from council care . |
| 13 | In the event my Lord , erm , that er your Lordship felt that further guidance was required , there are the two routes that I 've indicated to your Lordship briefly yesterday , there is the route of er seeking some information , if your Lordship felt it 'd be of assistance to you in resolving any doubts that you may have from the and your Lordship has seen yesterday the notice on co-operation which is in and at page eleven thirty two and is also the exhibit |
| 14 | We knew it would be in his favour if he drove well . |
| 15 | ‘ I knew it would be like this , ’ she said . |
| 16 | " I never knew it would be like that . " |
| 17 | It just came to me and I knew it must be for one of you . ’ |
| 18 | ( This meant borrowing money and suffering a lot of hardships ; but they thought it would be worth it , because it would mean they could not be so easily discriminated against . ) |
| 19 | The price very nearly put me off though , £37.00 for one jump , but I thought it would be worth it as the price included one year 's membership and insurance so the price of the next jump would drop to £25.00 . |
| 20 | I thought it would be for the best to … to … ’ |
| 21 | It was smaller than I thought it would be for two-and-a-half grand 's worth , but then what do I know ? |
| 22 | I thought it would be of interest to members if I tried to illustrate how the diamorphic diagnosis can be made , even with a dusty old specimen in a cupboard somewhere . |
| 23 | ‘ I said all along that Lennox would win — but I thought it would be on points . |
| 24 | I suppose I thought it would be like a hospital ward , but it 's quite like an ordinary nursery , really , except it 's so dull . |
| 25 | This may not be an original idea but I thought it might be worth a mention . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's why I thought it might be worth suggesting . |
| 27 | of what sixth form courses entails , now , erm , three or four of us thought it might be worth our while , or your while if you just briefly said what I 'm going to say now , that erm , the , the |
| 28 | He thought it might be of use to the ‘ curious ’ Mr Goldney in the making of porcelain . |
| 29 | I thought it might be with a boy . |
| 30 | ‘ You thought it might be with a boy . |