Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] i [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 2 | ‘ It obviously gave me a very good grounding and without it , I would n't be where I am today . |
| 3 | I like to listen to the news , but yesterday it just gave me a headache . |
| 4 | It just gave me an excuse to come charging up here . ’ |
| 5 | I , I forgotten that it was Justine , I , it just threw me a bit that erm , erm , Nick asked me to let you know that we were here and that we 'd received the chairs . |
| 6 | Cos I can travel three hundred miles on my own at night so you know it just gives me a bit of safeguard . |
| 7 | It still niggled me a bit that he could return to a centrally heated and solidly built barrack block , while the girls shivered in their huts . |
| 8 | I walked fast — my feet stood up to it very well , I 'd been sensible and worn my trainers not my nice stiletto wobblers , but it still took me a fair old time to get to somewhere possible . |
| 9 | It always gives me a twist inside to hear it . |
| 10 | The ‘ New Faces ’ gowns are almost ready ; ca n't wait to pick them up , it always gives me a special buzz driving through London with the back seat full of beautifully made , exclusively designed gowns . |
| 11 | ‘ It always gives me a bit of a turn to see a nun driving a car . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It also cost me the life of my head groom , Davis , who was drowned trying to rescue the horse , ’ he said . |
| 13 | It also did me a world of good , for I had to study the basic faith , teaching and life and express it in as simple words as possible . |
| 14 | I was impressed and it also gave me a lot of momentum for the album . |
| 15 | And it also gave me a hit , which I never expected . ’ |
| 16 | It also gives me a patriotic thrill , knowing that it 's British designed and built . |
| 17 | It also gives me an excuse to mention the much neglected Silver speciality , drive lace . |
| 18 | It also gives me the power to prohibit or restrict the use of those premises until those conditions are alleviated . |
| 19 | But it it now gives me the opportunity to use it er for the purpose in which |
| 20 | It really gives me a kick to be of some use like this . ’ |
| 21 | It then took me a while to realise the significance of it , but at last I remembered it had been around Dora Belle 's neck , the person who murdered Perk and she must have placed it in Perk 's hand when she buried her . |
| 22 | It then took me an hour as she lay there sobbing to find her a bed . |
| 23 | Yes , yes , it does n't compete with the fireplace , we have a , a , er mock fire in there you know , normally in the winter that , that 's on and it looks , it 's very realistic , it almost looks as if it is a fire glowing all the time cos there 's a rotary spinner in it and it flickers , er , and er the room is very warm because it 's central heated anyway and , no I would n't say , it never bothers me the television , I do n't suppose that er , if I were left on my own I 'd hardly have it left on you know I think men watch television more than women . |
| 24 | ‘ It never did me no harm . |