Example sentences of "it [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recommends shampooing hair at least twice a week , more often if it looks as if it needs it or you live in a city . |
| 2 | See lot lot of these jobs are done by the tide , say you take a ship now what 's been sunk in the river , at low tide they 'll put the wires underneath , make them fast to the ships and when the tide when the t t tide rise out come the ship , and they can take it where they want to . |
| 3 | no Arthur that 's how we made it where I come from |
| 4 | The taxation needs , it 's not just V A T it varies in the European Community , it where it varies in a wider Europe and the world at a whole . |
| 5 | I hope today we can get rid of this issue we can put it where it belongs in the House Of Commons , we can get rid of it and make sure that Leicestershire helps that and I am still willing to talk to the hunt . |
| 6 | For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) . |
| 7 | I said well my dear we ca n't afford it so you got ta have what I do . |
| 8 | Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best ? |
| 9 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 10 | Instead he told the judge that if he let his son go free , he would see to it that his got into no more trouble . |
| 11 | Rokeya 's flat was so precisely as Lee remembered it that she felt as if no time had passed between the last time she had been inside it and the present day . |
| 12 | Right , it 's about this erm lady , I 'll make it that she lived on Dartmoor with her erm grandson erm and her moth and he sa daughter and she is a gran , she was a grandlady a grandmother . |
| 13 | It had the same feel to it that she knew from the long hours she 'd spent experiencing the mass-market romantic slush that Madreidetic packed into their holos . |
| 14 | In the early 1980s , because of her past connection with the military establishment , intellectuals tended to shun her and rumours had it that she worked for the Chinese KGB , the Ministry of State Security . |
| 15 | How long ago was it that I looked on the world with such innocent eyes ? |
| 16 | is it , how many miles is it that I fly to Turin and Zurich and do you want me to try and add that up and then it was into the cars I thought oh this is an easier question to answer , I 'll stick with the cars cos I know that I do twenty two thousand . |
| 17 | If we look at a relationship or any type of commu mean taking a bit of a different look at things thinking well what is it that this person wants from me and what is it that I want from this person ? |
| 18 | Removal of this national vulnerability and dependence on other nations became the prime aim , and so compelling an aim was it that it came to be achieved by fair means or foul . |
| 19 | I used to have a file , but I found that , as with so many files one opens , I was putting so much in it that it ceased to be useful . |
| 20 | Ah well it 's definitely , it 's sounds like a , if it 's doing it that it sounds like an inflammation on the nerves right enough . |
| 21 | But what sort of porn is it that it has to be brought all the way from the US of A ? |
| 22 | The problem in this case however is : What is it that it comes after ? |
| 23 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 24 | He was a protégé of Sir William Chambers , who saw to it that he worked in every artistic department , including that of interior decoration , before he designed his first house at the age of eighteen . |
| 25 | When was it that you left for Naples ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Where are you from , Creggan , and what is it that you fear in this place ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ And how is it that you know about it ? ’ |
| 28 | Ah yes , but now that 's very interesting because that 's not the same as was the old regulation with the H N D recognition with Napier , and it used to be as I understood it that you had to actually be in membership and leave a period of time between doing the certificate and the diploma . |
| 29 | Basically that it 's there to be enjoyed and that it is only when you enjoy it that you play at your best — I always enjoy my cricket . |
| 30 | ‘ Do I take it that you work for the same man as the two who broke into my house ? ’ she asked . |