Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chukar-type partridges Alectoris are longer , more upright and slightly more pheasant-like than smaller Perdix , and readily distinguished where they overlap it in W and S Europe by black and white eyestripes , white chin and throat , broad black band extending from eye down neck to form breast-band , conspicuous black and white barring on flanks , and red bill and legs . |
| 2 | Yeah , I go to Mrs , erm can we fish , sharing lists I ga , you know , I think it 'll be easier if we did it in twos , and Becky goes why ? |
| 3 | It 's easier if you do it on the board , and you can see it . |
| 4 | I paid fi fifteen bleeding quid for that and I sai cos this year , I did n't know he 'd done this cos he sits it like that |
| 5 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 6 | She does this because she feels it to be her duty to God and it makes her happy helping these people . |
| 7 | Even so , in her darkest moments , wrong as she knew it to be , Constance could not stop herself thinking , If only it had been Mummy . |
| 8 | West Ham look a good outfit , they pass the ball around well in the midfield but are crap when they get it in the box . |
| 9 | I thought this was odd so I mentioned it to my bank , who were seriously unimpressed . |
| 10 | ‘ Not really , because it got so much bigger than we wanted it to straight away . |
| 11 | she goes to part-time so they get it at a reduced rate . |
| 12 | It 's dangerous if you leave it on all night — you can start a fire and that if you ai n't careful . |
| 13 | ‘ People should remember alcohol is dangerous whether you drink it in the pub or at the Christmas carol concert . ’ |
| 14 | Well it sounded so simple when he said it over the telephone about two months ago . |
| 15 | As my car moved through the area announcing ‘ Meet shadow chancellor John Smith as he explains Labour 's policy on fiscal and monetary reform , ’ I noticed that the town was not as crowded as I remembered it from only that morning . |
| 16 | You know the sort of thing I mean : ‘ For as much as ye do it unto one of these my children — ’ |
| 17 | The town was much as I remembered it in 1919 . |
| 18 | The Warwickshire nature trust is tiny when you compare it to the total amount of woodland managed for sports use . |
| 19 | The Warwickshire nature trust is tiny when you compare it to the total amount of woodland managed for sports use . |
| 20 | was more valuable than I expected it to be ; |
| 21 | In ordinary politics , however , we must treat integrity as an independent ideal if we accept it at all , because it can conflict with these other ideals . |
| 22 | You 'll have spent at least one day testing everything to see if it 's okay before you show it to the public . |
| 23 | ‘ It sounds pretty cold-hearted when you put it like that , but I love that little girl . |
| 24 | An average rate is probably somewhere in the order of ten to fifteen millimetres per hundred years , which probably does n't seem very fast when you say it in terms of a hundred years , but when you think in terms of the length of time that landscapes have been involving , then erm you 've got to multiply it by centuries and indeed millions of years , and erm you can see that quite erm dramatic changes can occur . |
| 25 | So I do n't know about anybody else but that 's cheaper than I expected it to be . |
| 26 | That does not render it inedible if you cook it within a few hours — or freeze it immediately . |
| 27 | Would n't it be better if we sent it to your home ? ’ |
| 28 | it will be better if you put it in that toy machine mum |
| 29 | ‘ Nothing , ’ said the little boy , ‘ but it might taste better if you cooked it in the frying pan ! ’ |
| 30 | I do n't think they can be extremely confident if there basing it on a forty percent market share . |