Example sentences of "it [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and leave you free to do a job , because you may think I mean , believe it or I 've turned this room inside out today ! |
| 2 | I 'm not going to let her slide out of it or I do n't get my scoop . ’ |
| 3 | Erm and had he had he patented it or I do n't know about exactly the timing , he might have made himself an absolute fortune . |
| 4 | no Arthur that 's how we made it where I come from |
| 5 | I was so disquieted by it that I finished it that evening . |
| 6 | So when Esquire ask for their 2,000 words next month about the connection between the Croatian Winter Olympics team uniform and Public Enemy , or the brutal point of Michael Barrymore , I can somehow contrive it that I end up writing about how it feels waiting for Maddy 's first smile , about the wonder of her 35th day , about her growing up and me growing up . |
| 7 | On the other hand , I do not have that much to lose — speeding , in our culture at least , does not carry all that much stigma ( even in the section of it that I inhabit ) . |
| 8 | It was n't until I 'd bought one and used it that I realised how much it speeded up knitting . |
| 9 | It was n't till the evening when we sat down and talked about it that I realised it could have been quite dangerous . |
| 10 | So dismal was it that I thought first of Byron 's prophetic poem of the death of light , and then of the lands that lie north of the line of the Arctic Circle . |
| 11 | I also remember leaving about 5 mins before the end to make the 5 mile walk to the station , only to hear the Leeds goal … or was it that I thought the noise was Leeds making it 3–2 ? ? ? |
| 12 | I used to tell myself that it was because I wanted so much to believe it that I felt that way . |
| 13 | Or is it that I 've lost my sense of balance ? |
| 14 | Suffice it that I know that your true opinion of me is scornful in the extreme . ’ |
| 15 | IT 'S not just because we 're serialising it that I recommend Jack Ashley 's autobiography . |
| 16 | WHY IS it that I get so much personally addressed mail ? |
| 17 | How long ago was it that I looked on the world with such innocent eyes ? |
| 18 | I said , " Yes " , and I plugged it that I 'd done it while I 'd had Louisa and that 's what I think went in my favour in a way . |
| 19 | ‘ No , I think it would have been easier just to take his word for it that I 'd boobed , fallen down on the job . |
| 20 | Oh , Luke saw to it that I got out before there was any real harm done , but … ’ |
| 21 | You must take my word for it that I saw it by accident . |
| 22 | That was that , for if I now refused my mother would see to it that I regretted my foolishness . |
| 23 | Where is it that I find . |
| 24 | Let me be buried in lead at Claydon next to where your father proposes to lie himself , and let no stranger wind me , nor do not let me be stripped , but put a clean smock on me , and let my face be hid and do you stay in the room and see me wound and laid in the first coffin , which must be of wood if I do not die of any infectious disease , else I am so far from desiring it that I forbid you to come near me . |
| 25 | I love it because it 's Christian and Christmas to me is basically a traditional Christian festival , and that 's the part of it that I enjoy . |
| 26 | What is it that I have to do ? |
| 27 | Maybe the question , ‘ What is it that I have to undo in order to help myself ? ’ is more appropriate when it comes to the Alexander Technique . |
| 28 | How often is it that I have asked you for money ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In fact she talked so much and so often about it that I feel I have been there myself . ’ |