Example sentences of "[subord] it [be] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I complained and although it was stopped I still got my books later . |
| 2 | So that literally means if it 's telling you right , you 're ten to one your ratio of calls , and you earn from every appointment two hundred pounds you 've only got to make twenty calls and you 'll earn four hundred pounds . |
| 3 | ‘ Come on now , if it 's bothering you so much you 'd better get it off your chest . |
| 4 | It probably was n't economic in the very small town you know probably you know I do n't , I do n't remember people keeping pigs but if it was collected it probably was collected by the bin at the back door . |
| 5 | I have the right to know what she is doing and , if she is having an affair , it has got to stop because it is driving me out of my mind . ’ |
| 6 | And seventh note is the leading note because it 's leading you up to the tonic again . |
| 7 | It 's just hitting you harder than most because it 's taken you longer than the rest of us to discover the joys and the agonies of falling in love . |
| 8 | Because it was making me so bad . |
| 9 | They are based upon our ways of treating animals , whether it be killing them painlessly or protecting an endangered species or preserving a natural habitat . |
| 10 | Then when it is touched it immediately snaps the shells together like a steel trap . |
| 11 | He was convicted of entering the country illegally , though it is believed he accidentally strayed over the border from Kuwait , where he was working . |
| 12 | Since documents prepared with either indented or hanging paragraphs tend to be consistently of the one style , it is as easy to set up the format before typing as it is to do it afterwards . |
| 13 | But if it decides a question remitted to it for decision without committing any of these errors it is as much entitled to decide that question wrongly as it is to decide it rightly . |
| 14 | And nine times out of ten people in that situation , when they 're actually creating their article or their programme or anything else , will take that material , use their own style , wrap it up , and as it were throw it out , and if you 're pro-active in that sense , you stand a very very much better chance of them getting it right . |
| 15 | It may prove to be Margaret Thatcher 's most lasting contribution to her party , for it is changing it irrevocably . |