Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Suddenly it seemed to her as if the whole world wanted to know about every detail of her life . |
2 | ‘ You 've no idea how much it means to me to be part of all this . ’ |
3 | Now break it up as it is cut along the dotted lines and the object is to see how long it takes for it to be reassembled . |
4 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
5 | but it 's just it seems to me like , like the boys must be intimidated by girls who actually |
6 | Now it sounds to me like the final stages of a marriage : two separated parties , screwed to their own particular pieces of floor , uttering routine chatter while the rain begins to fall . |
7 | Now it seems to me with erm with great respect from the view of the taxing officer , that er it 's quite clear that er both parties were holding han were holding their hands in relation to a question of taxation because negotiations were going on between the parties and indeed the defendants were being requested er not to proceed with taxation but to see if they could obtain an overall assessment and the point was met to the defendants barrister , telling quite frankly there would n't be much advantage in the defendants pushing on with erm taxation because they 'd only , they would have to look to his interest in the property to get payment , it seems to me in those circumstances that it can not be said that erm the plaintiffs were in any way acting improperly and not seeking to have the costs taxed during the period while the negotiations were being carried on er because effectively and |
8 | Now it seems to me in some respects the gulf is pretty wide and therefore can only do that if Noble Lords are good enough to try and sort of meet the divide . |
9 | Now it sat behind her on the sideboard . |
10 | That 's well it looks like it to me . |
11 | How it grew upon me in the night , he wrote . |
12 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |
13 | But let me say here that that was just how it looked to me at the time ; that there was a nice logic to it , that Boy 's beginning matched O 's ending , that Boy 's first night was O's last , or it certainly would have been his last if Boy had not fallen into his arms . |
14 | The shock wave was delayed by only a few more seconds , and then it rolled over them like a small hurricane . |
15 | The hand can be distinguished from the body , yet it belongs to it in such a way that it can not operate as a hand unless attached to the body — except in fantasy as in Ted Hughes ' story of The Iron Man . |
16 | My film adaptation of Anthony Delano 's richly comic book slip-Up ’ How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him ’ cost the not unastronomical sum of £600,000 to make , so should it turn out to be money down the drain the BBC will have to face some embarrassing questions about why it embarked on it in the first place if it thought the story might be defamatory . |