Example sentences of "it a [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Is it a girl you 're seeing ? |
2 | Thrill to the spills of those white-knuckle rides and make it a day you and the kids will never forget . |
3 | Was it a day she had forgotten ? |
4 | ‘ Or is it a man you hurry back to ? |
5 | A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work . |
6 | I 'm not comfortable but I suppose if I gave it a go I would get used to it . |
7 | Now in the House of Lords , she has written her biography and given it a title which could well sum up her life , Fighting All The Way . |
8 | Is it a Paki who 's got it now ? |
9 | Somebody went in and quoted my number , and was it a suit they got ? |
10 | Although the executives of the rugby club were in favour of the earlier offer , the cricket club committee was firmly against it a stand it has maintained to this day . |
11 | The Aztecs , perhaps recognising how odd this was , gave it a name which means " water monster " — axolotl . |
12 | while carrying on it a person who was not a qualified driver . |
13 | ‘ while carrying on it a person who was not a qualified driver ’ . |
14 | ‘ while carrying on it a person who was not a qualified driver ’ . |
15 | I would also actually suggest that again if you wanted to ease it a bit I 'd pick up a point also made just now er in that P P G refers to building and the E two refers to development . |
16 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
17 | It might be a bit awkward when you start off but once you 've done it a bit it gets easier . |
18 | Was it a scene which in later years I would look at with nostalgia , even longing ? |
19 | Or , imagine that the lights go out as Harry has just begun saying : ( 2 ) Listen , I 'm not disagreeing with you but with you , and not about this but about this Or , Suppose we find a bottle in the sea , and inside it a message which reads : ( 3 ) Meet me here a week from now with a stick about this big We do not know who to meet , where or when to meet him or her , or how big a stick to bring . |
20 | That 's why that , at the moment I do n't see it well I do n't see it a necessity you to get a pension . |
21 | Well the rubber 's a , well , you call it a teatle you call it a teatle it 's a rubber . |
22 | Well the rubber 's a , well , you call it a teatle you call it a teatle it 's a rubber . |
23 | You 'll love that Caroline , I did n't give it a thought I 'm sorry ? |
24 | But though everyone was near dead of curiosity , he had kept it a secret what he was planning . |
25 | This autobiography has nothing to say of courtship , but that , as Dr Vincent has suggested , could well be because working-class autobiographers did not judge it a subject their readers wanted to know about , and many of them in any case lacked the command of an emotional language to describe their feelings . |
26 | Fancy that ba fancy that insurance , did you , was it a receipt you wanted back ? |
27 | Give it a flick it 'll go for a long way because there 's no , there 's very little friction on the ice and erm the second one is the , the awkward one . |
28 | Why not give it a try yourself ? |
29 | And they told it without on-screen questioning , though the programme is skilfully structured to give it a coherence it might have lacked . |
30 | The design was n't very clear , but she could just make out a building shaped like a tower , she thought , tracing the outline with her fingertip , and beneath it a flower which might or might not be a rose . |