Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who could it be calling on him at this time of night ? |
| 2 | On no account should it be regarded as something through which the traveller passes quickly while hurrying on to the next destination . |
| 3 | If it were put to us in this way we might be less prone to think of it as imposing a vastly increased burden on the community . |
| 4 | and it 's getting past it to be honest . |
| 5 | The thing is , the thing is , the thing is I can see where everyone 's coming from , but it 's , it 's thinking about it in the future , |
| 6 | We believe a cup of coffee leaves a nicer taste in your mouth when it 's given to you by name . |
| 7 | Now Ian is putting on this flower demonstration show , it 's called From Me To You . |
| 8 | you 're talking as much a about y it 's reflecting on you as the line manager , how much are you communicating with this |
| 9 | It 's calling to me in my mind , and it 's horrible ! ’ |
| 10 | There are also occasions when it is fitting for everything in a service to be either purist and ‘ traditional ’ or ‘ modern ’ . |
| 11 | Balcon , for one , was not aware of any frustration on the part of his filmmakers , unless he was dishonest when remarking in his autobiography , ‘ It is puzzling to me in retrospect that none of my films … in any way reflected the despair of the times in which we were living . ’ |
| 12 | As he explained in Urbino , ‘ These sketches are very much a part of myself and I am sure those who paint themselves will understand how hard it is to part with something into which , when inspired , you have poured your heart and soul . ’ |
| 13 | At paragraph 1497 , it is stated that in larceny the owner of the thing stolen has no intention to part with his property therein to the person taking it , although he may intend to part with the possession ; in false pretences the owner does intend to part with his property in the money or chattel , but it is obtained from him by fraud . |
| 14 | He has such great familiarity with the keyboard that when it is hidden for him by a cloth spread over it , he plays on this cloth with the same speed and the same precision . |
| 15 | The only bird that regularly directs missiles at other species is the Australian brush turkey , which kicks sand and stones at lizards when it is competing with them for food . |
| 16 | Let's look at each in turn , and see how easy it is to live without them for a short period . |
| 17 | The following , recommended by the Law Society , is now widely used : In consideration of you today completing the purchase of we hereby undertake forthwith to pay over to Building Society the money required to redeem the mortgage/legal charge dated and to forward the redeemed mortgage/legal charge to you as soon as it is received by us from the Building Society . |
| 18 | On we walk , discussing hobbies , like two old geezers , and she tells e how nice it is to talk to me like this as sometimes she feels she has n't got to know me as well as she would have liked . |
| 19 | Law , that is to say , is made valid by my experience of it , and not by the fact that it is presented to me as law . |
| 20 | We identify a stretch of language as a text partly because it is presented to us as a text , and we therefore do our utmost to make sense of it as a unit , and partly because we perceive connections within and among its sentences . |
| 21 | Many of us laugh at prejudice when it is presented to us in someone else . |
| 22 | The European Convention on Human Rights has not been made part of our law by statute , so it does not in itself create rights enforceable in our courts ; but having been ratified by this country it is binding on us as a matter of international law . |
| 23 | The main thing is to shift your centre of gravity forwards behind the punch , so that it is delivered with plenty of power . |
| 24 | There is a lovely tree lined promenade for gentle afternoon strolls , and it is backed by lots of cafes and restaurants , perfect for stopping off and enjoying a drink while watching everyone pass by . |
| 25 | It is known to everyone as the 'Spruce Goose ’ , but what was its official name ? |
| 26 | ’ It 's a sad reflection of society nowadays , ’ said the school 's headmaster ’ We blame children for a lot of things these days , but most of it is forced on them by the pressures of modern living . ’ |
| 27 | Even so , the refugees themselves are likely to resist any settlement unless it is forced upon them by the Syrian government itself . |
| 28 | That prompted judge Robert Watson from the USA to interject : ‘ Judges can only score a foul if it is reported to them by the referee . ’ |
| 29 | It is rushing towards me over the uneven ground . |
| 30 | This ‘ cleanness ’ was not an exclusively English taste ( even if it is elaborated for us in the poems of an exceptional writer ) , for Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight is outstandingly ‘ French ’ among the English romances and gives a superbly articulate voice to international courtly values at a time when art-historians begin to speak of an International Style in the visual arts . |