Example sentences of "[vb base] it [be] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 2 | And a fellow said to me about two ye , two to three years ago I expect it was two telegraph people up that pole out an just outside of my gate and he 's still there and I walk along the gate and he turned round to me he say you 're a lucky man ! |
| 3 | Sister said , ‘ I expect it was one of our students at present working here as a dresser . |
| 4 | I expect it was one of these walks you know , and Ian found a stick and then he thought Tim would like one . |
| 5 | Some say it is 0.5 microgram per cubic metre . |
| 6 | Remember the last thing you did was add it on , so if we say it 's two pounds , we 're back down to forty pounds that he 's got to buy units . |
| 7 | As I say it 's one of these er competitive market things , but if you go into an electrical shop and you buy a piece of electrical equipment , or if you want er a plug for it , a piece of electrical equipment because you found out that the plug on the electrical equipment at home is defective , it 's got cracked porcelain or something like , then please have a word with the person who is selling you the plug and say look , this plug is gon na be fitted on X appliance . |
| 8 | Erm , so playgroups I feel need , erm , particularly for certain children , they need to find assisted places of some sort , because say it 's one eighty a session , and they need several sessions a week , if they 're to benefit from it , and one eighty or one seventy or whatever the cost is , which I think is round about that figure , erm , is not something that a family normally would have priority , the , the kind of family who has to have erm , needs , special needs anyway themselves . |
| 9 | They say it 's one step closer to further privatisation within the prison service ; something that leaves a bad taste in their mouths . |
| 10 | the police say it 's one of the most sickening cases they 've ever had to deal with … |
| 11 | The paintings , porcelain and furniture had been taken in burglaries across the region.Officers say it 's one of the biggest hauls ever recovered . |
| 12 | Experts say it 's one of the worst allergy cases they 've seen . |
| 13 | And as you say it 's one of the best things that they want . |
| 14 | but say it 's four per cent on every size , and I want four , yeah , so I put me four , that 's eight per cent above a bit above . |
| 15 | one , as soon as you get , well you 've got ta work out what your speed is then , break , break your speed down to your stopping distance , say it 's thirty , you wannae stop slowing down at forty five feet right , that 's what you have to know erm |
| 16 | Oh dear anyhow I 'll get myself a drop of drink , you say it 's seven o'clock do ya ? |
| 17 | And this one 's , as I say it 's twenty nine something so I mean it 's it 's about right is n't it ? |
| 18 | And a and also , I mean , it was , and it was a Panasonic one this , erm what you do , if you were doing a jacket top potato , you er would weigh the potato and , and then erm put in the weight , say it was six ounces , and all you do then is press erm jacket potato , you do n't have to put any time , it automatically does it for the time . |
| 19 | if you saw something where , I do n't know , say it was two glasses and then we could buy two as well and |
| 20 | The police say it was one of the worst attacks that they 've seen on a horse . |
| 21 | They , they put , we go to er , a little shop in , only a little shop and they have to got into er one at Croydon every Thursday , and he get 's , the manager , he get 's the er , driver 's to come out of head office , and what staff , and he always buys it in bulk and he , he still buys say it 's coca cola say it was ten pence a can |
| 22 | Some say it was seven tons of meat in a thick black hide |
| 23 | After two weeks of treatment median serum bismuth concentration was 3 ng/g ( interquartile range 2.0 to 6.0 ) and at trial exit it was 3 ng/g ( interquartile range 1.75 to 6.25 ) . |
| 24 | But then you realise it 's 30 or 40 miles to the nearest general hospital and that can be difficult particularly as you get older , ’ says Dr Tony Hill , consultant in public health medicine . |
| 25 | In a scurrilous attack on the Queen , the divorced father-of-two adds : ‘ She must get out of her gilded cage and realise it is 1992 , not 1772 . ’ |
| 26 | There were occasions , also , when the assistant on duty would forget the time , and suddenly realise it was two minutes to the hour and she 'd forgotten to do the observation . |
| 27 | Just imagine it 's twelve pounds |
| 28 | At least Churchill is on record that Roosevelt had been more outspoken with him on the subject of Indochina than on any other colonial matter : ‘ I imagine it is one of his principal war aims to liberate Indochina from France ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ They are out of season and very expensive , but Alain bought them in Paris this morning , although I imagine it was one of his long-suffering secretaries who was dispatched to buy them . ’ |
| 30 | His discussion of the forces that shape it is one of the best parts of his book . |