Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] it [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the noise of the traffic out in the piazza , the room had a peaceful sense of intimacy about it which may have had something to do with the large low beds and the subtle green and white colours . |
| 2 | yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void |
| 3 | If Ken had only put his mind to it he might have in the end come up with something even better . |
| 4 | If he sets his mind to it he could make it in the cross-channel game , ’ says Scottish goal scoring ace Derek Cook , who himself will pose a considerable threat to Ards . |
| 5 | If you want to make a fight of it I should warn you that they were not his to give . |
| 6 | ‘ By the look of it I would think so . ’ |
| 7 | And for a really considered exposition of it we can turn to Charles Temple 's Native Races and their Rulers ( 1918 ) , a remarkable work which , though it bears the unmistakable stamp of a mind operating obsessively in isolation , pursuing ideas by their internal logic rather than by the rules of external evidence , can yet be assumed to possess a representative character . |
| 8 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 9 | I nearly always write with an acoustic , but if it 's tuned to an open chord you will obviously have to write something different ; if you stick a capo on it you 'll write something different ; if I use an amplifier and an electric guitar I 'll write something different again . |
| 10 | To the linguist , it is clear at once that she has not really managed to speak JC , she has just made an imitation of it which might fool people not really familiar with that language . |
| 11 | From the sound of it he 'd blow you away without a second thought . |
| 12 | You 're going to think well I know what will happen , we 'll get if you drip hydrochloric acid on it you 'd get funnium chloride water and carbon dioxide . |
| 13 | I 'm glad you said that cos if too many people said they would have gone on started business without it they might drop the scheme . |
| 14 | That 's right and put your paddle in that and you scull you had to come down every time and many a time people 'd learn that that paddle will come out , but once you got the knack of it you could do it one hand , cos you was cutting down all the time like that 's what it was . |
| 15 | She did n't say what it was or who published it or anything , but it made me you know think you know , so I wrote to her care of Writers something and erm asked her what 's the name of it I would like to read it because I had also written something about the er American Indians and erm er who 's the publisher or what 's it called , I 'd like to read it . |
| 16 | So you 'll get a big erm warehouse erm which may be typically erm computer controlled , retrieval systems , storage , inventory , stock control and all the rest of it which will employ a certain number of people . |
| 17 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 18 | At the first sign of it I 'll threaten to pull out altogether . |
| 19 | There is a popular idea that when the flight data recorder is recovered from a crashed aircraft the investigator has merely to read an indicator inside it which will tell him just what the cause of the accident was , eliminating the need for all the tedious investigation practices which used to take so much time . |
| 20 | After all , if it 's got your name on it you 'll get it anyway . ’ |
| 21 | The spines become fully extended and if you confuse a hedgehog with a rabbit and make a hasty grab at it you will have cause for regret . |
| 22 | I mean if you 'd have been reported last week for it you would think Yeah I 'm damn sure that 's right , you know . |
| 23 | if you do n't find use for it you can chuck it out . |
| 24 | you get a bit of paint on it I 'd have a job to get it off so I take them off , then put them on just as it 's going off , you know , so you got ta |
| 25 | Yeah I know , you know , there 'll be two pound postage on it you can guarantee on it so the crafty devils they are |
| 26 | It 's a little bit bigger I think you 'll find if you put the tape measure on it you 'll find it 's a little bit bigger . |
| 27 | You see the piece I just read is a monologue and if I 'd known there was a competition for it I 'd have sent it there rather than |
| 28 | From there it is less than one Cessna hour to see from air the Bay of Islands , the Waitangi Treaty House ( where the historic treaty between Maori and British was signed ) , Cape Brett ( with its remarkable rocky island that has a hole in it you can sail ships right through ) , and thousands of acres of primeval forests of kauri trees . |
| 29 | and then like if there 's oh what a favour on it he can do it , you know what I mean |
| 30 | It can be evaded by careful drafting such as the addition of " whatsoever " , or some synonym for it which may prevent its application . |