Example sentences of "it [noun] [pers pn] [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 | they call it achievement you know they call it record of achievement |
| 12 | a knot she had a she had one is it Papyras you call it do n't you . |
| 13 | Oh it sickens you does n't it ? |
| 14 | A child 's education — they would teach it things I did n't want it to learn , at school . |
| 15 | And they can do maths , they just , it 's just that when you call it maths they say they ca n't do it . |
| 16 | Right that 's what it is. it 's raised to some power |
| 17 | Was it Pie'oh'pah he 'd been expecting ? |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | That is if you like , in the background , I 'll put it on for you , you can change it anytime you like and there 's no problems , unfortunately you ca n't do it yourself , yet . |
| 23 | Is it Thursday they came in ? |
| 24 | if you 've saved it Ton it 's got , it 's got to be in there has n't it ? |
| 25 | this chap with his book he says watch out of it George it burns you , look in the corner and get your torch , you know , maybe you 're going to an antique place |
| 26 | She said I ca n't understand it Nick she says everybody keeps flashing their lights at me she said . |
| 27 | Was it Rohan he had meant ? |
| 28 | Was it satisfaction she detected in Gilbert 's tone ? |
| 29 | He said to her oh forget it mother he said keep on . |
| 30 | Every now and then it half-wishes it had and deploys psychic explosions as a substitute : vision-thing weeks ( as it were ) during which a rotary storm of collective fulmination conjures up generally-agreed ‘ solutions ’ for the British Fall . |