Example sentences of "it [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And they said you know th there should have been a way round it where they kept this couple in there . |
2 | I used to tell myself that it was because I wanted so much to believe it that I felt that way . |
3 | When Eberhard Bethge produced Bonhoeffer 's volumes of papers , lectures and letters in a series of Collected Works in German , Hartwell saw to it that I reviewed each volume in The Bridge as soon as it arrived . |
4 | She could tell by the feel of it that it had some papers inside , but she did not look at them . |
5 | ( One story , which entered his official state Department biography , has it that he told several students that his own rise to the position of ambassador showed what great opportunities there were for the young in Iran . |
6 | It was evidence of Karajan 's genius or magic or whatever we care to call it that he took enormous pains with these simple chords in order to get just the right degree of string tone with an appropriately dark colour . |
7 | It was at the very next stage was n't it that you had this switch from a boundary which we could accept to one which we profoundly could not accept ? |
8 | Crikey , I could understand it if I ate four meals a day . |
9 | Oh you 'd know it if you lived next door to . |
10 | ‘ Unfortunately , the referee completely lost it and we had three players sent off . ’ |
11 | Its line was quite clear and he needed only to veer a little into it and he felt enormous uplift under his wings and a lightness and power unlike anything he had felt in the Park . |
12 | Well Raymond bought one up Myrtle Road , and he only paid twenty three quid for it and she left all furniture and everything ! |
13 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |
14 | But I remember going on it and I had those transfers on my arms |
15 | So I supposed I 'd better tell my board about it and I did this afternoon . |
16 | But you you you w you w you were getting into it and you had high hopes for developing your work . |
17 | So all you 'd do is you 'd cast about for a friend , you 'd decide on a price that you would accept and if it was a friend , if you had to sell it and you needed fifteen quid to buy a pair of shoes or whatever , erm and you 'd like twenty , you 'd turn to a mate and go , Have you got twenty quid ? and he he 'd say yes or no . |
18 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
19 | and you ca n't see it cos I got all items on but |
20 | Social Services or somebody to do with or somewhere contacted him and asked him to do it but they paid all cash . |
21 | I thought he 'd gone off it but I got wrong bag . |
22 | And all the guys at the back the T T S put my name down for it because they had great hilarity |
23 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
24 | I know Mother would have liked it because she had some experience of one when she was living with Aunt Bessie , over in Stainmore . |
25 | But David Pratt , photographer , has gone off it since he travelled half way round the world 's trouble spots unscathed to be battered and mugged on his own Glasgow south side doorstep . |
26 | He knew at once of a house to let for a whole year , the owners being abroad and failing to let it before they left last month and seeing my condition he took pity and had the caretaker prevailed upon to come to me at his premises . |
27 | Was it when we knew each other ? ’ |
28 | Was that had we and I know we mentioned it when we met last time , but was that really we 're including in E O work with the unemployed . |
29 | The comics come from all over the world and there were people queueing up to see it when we opened last Saturday . ’ |
30 | Leek out , had this heart trouble , and he 'd been in the Signals about oh ten year , he , he was on for twelve engagement and he nearly completed it when he had this heart trouble . |