Example sentences of "it [noun] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It makes even worse reading and it distresses me to have to bring it to the attention of the House . |
| 2 | Penny 's eyes followed it u it darted upward — and then they became riveted . |
| 3 | And she said well thing is if I do n't do it Bren I do n't want , you know she 's bound to sort of say . |
| 4 | Er Jim across , across the road , is it Jim you play on a Thursday so |
| 5 | But surely in that when I said let's see whether it considerations I said . |
| 6 | it got on my wick the bitchiness of it all , did n't you , I could n't , I could n't do with it Joy I do n't think |
| 7 | Was n't it Nigel she liked ? |
| 8 | They shipped it South you see . |
| 9 | bags it belongs to Jim really , I just acquired it Martin I think your comic 's here somewhere , or did I there you are , remember to take it home with you please , good boy |
| 10 | Some might call it jealousy I suppose , but it was once my joy to lie between Ma and Pa and listen to the stories of Noah and Jonah which Pa read to me out of the True Book . |
| 11 | In other words they could overcome the debilitating impact of high unemployment and the government 's attempts it deflation which had clearly weakened the trade union movement 's powers of resistance during the early 1920s . |
| 12 | It was the spider , she began , it Gwendoline what did I tell you , I will not hear another word of the wretched spider , said Miss Potts raising her voice angrily . |
| 13 | Was it Gladys who said that ? |
| 14 | they call it achievement you know they call it record of achievement |
| 15 | a knot she had a she had one is it Papyras you call it do n't you . |
| 16 | And was it Trevor who opined about the Pakistan side that it was ‘ full of too many chiefs and not enough Indians ’ ? |
| 17 | Oh it sickens you does n't it ? |
| 18 | A child 's education — they would teach it things I did n't want it to learn , at school . |
| 19 | Was n't it Jesus who said to the respectable citizens of His time , ‘ The harlots go into the Kingdom of Heaven before you ? ’ |
| 20 | And they can do maths , they just , it 's just that when you call it maths they say they ca n't do it . |
| 21 | Right that 's what it is. it 's raised to some power |
| 22 | Yeah , absolutely yeah why is it people who use the aggressive words are gon na be totally different from the words individual passive behaviour . |
| 23 | Was it Pie'oh'pah he 'd been expecting ? |
| 24 | Was it Mary who allowed him access to this source of joy ? |
| 25 | But have they always been able to machine it Norm I mean to my mind it 's always been sort of , you know , you buy , whatever they are like for afters and that and that 's how you use them to make your garden shed or whatever |
| 26 | ‘ And was it Buckingham who made the final announcement — at the Guildhall ? ’ |
| 27 | The glow through , er yes the paper was erm , was the same colour all the way through and er , and erm they had quite an impact , but of course they , would only last a year or two er and er they started a small factory in London and , erm call it Hula-Hoops I think er , I do n't know whether Hula-Hoops came from the lighting shades or the lighting shades from the Hula-Hoops , but it was the same process that made them both and er this was erm thin plastic tubing brightly coloured , er which was er cemented together into er |
| 28 | There 's some sort of board behind his head and a towel or something round his forehead holding his head upright but the eyes Christ the eyes there 's nothing there and McDunn says Persistent Vegetative State they call it apparently ; Persistent Vegetative State and it looks it man it looks it . |
| 29 | Erm yeah I did mention earlier actually there was one or two ways that you could perhaps help me er one was erm I hope , I 'd like to think that obviously my service has been of value to you erm I 'd also like to think that you can perhaps recommend me to people you know er you did actually mention earlier erm was it Peter you work with , was it |
| 30 | The Strongbeam Water Low bracket and pulley makes it simplicity itself to lower and raise the basket as required . |