Example sentences of "[vb past] it [is] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ His best attempt at negotiating the distance between admiration of the poetry and dislike for the individual who created it is this metaphor , in his introduction : ‘ When he found his authentic voice in the late 1940s , the beautiful flowers of his poetry were already growing on long stalks out of pretty dismal ground ’ — a botanical conceit designed to leave Larkin soiled , but the poetry ready for picking . |
2 | They were just two points in front after a surprise defeat for Daz Sumner when suddenly the team found it 's real fighting spirit . |
3 | HARROGATE ‘ 89 , the international Carpet Fair , confirmed it 's world-wide status and drawing power by again attracting an 8,000-plus visitor attendance — 14.4 per cent of the visitors coming from overseas . |
4 | Britain 's first jet fighter , the Gloucester Meteor celebrated it 's fiftieth birthday today . |
5 | The Bishop 's comments come after fears expressed by Oxfam , which yesterday celebrated it 's 50th birthday . |
6 | Otherwise , the bag is a big , nylon pastel effort that expands to the size of a small marquee and then folds away to postage stamp size ( except that , like a map , once unfurled it 's hellish folding it back again ) . |
7 | I thought it 's only child . |
8 | ‘ One can have a great concern for the people of Ethiopia , bit it 's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England . |
9 | I never realized it 's first time price . |
10 | Not far away is the Slovenský Raj National Park — translated it 's Slovak Paradise . |
11 | Well , I mean , is n't it , got it 's sexist overtones or it is |
12 | Doncaster staged it 's first meeting since the abandonment of the St Leger fixture but it was a disappointing turnout with a total of only 29 runners , which included a walk-over by Tebitto , who won £4,491 because of the defection of Tap On in the Sea Pigeon Handicap Hurdle . |
13 | And er , it was on the shed roof , on the apex like that and it just had it 's front paws over like that so I quick , got the camera and through the back bedroom window erm , took a picture of it on the shed roof like that , it was just looking ! |
14 | The Scots , in particular , got a hell of a lot out the Empire , proportionately the Scots had many more positions of influence and profit in the Empire than we did , and I think Scottish nationalism had it 's economic roots in the last twenty/thirty years from a realization that the Empire 's over , and that great outlet for Scottish energy , education and ambition was closed , therefore the Scots are shut up in the island as they used not to be . |
15 | It had it 's last play blinking months ago that ! |
16 | And we , I was sitting up having my break with her one day , right , and your man erm er Frank Bruno and the other feller , that big Mike Tyson were fighting right , and we were sitting watching it right , and erm , Paul was sitting there and all and Margot turned round and says you know , she said it 's desperate Karen ! |
17 | Oh he said I said it 's six weeks ' that she 's been here . |
18 | Ronnie said it 's all beginning . |
19 | Does my honourable friend agree with Klaus Stratzenburg who is a supervisor with Black and Decker in Lindburg in Germany who when asked to comment as to why he felt that Black and Decker were closing their plant in Germany to move it to Spennymore in County Durham , said it 's simple industry must be flexible , the social chapter is n't . |
20 | I said it , I said it 's good news and she rushed off , he comes out tomorrow if er I said , I said I shouted as your friend ran off , I shouted tell her it 's good news ! |
21 | Yeah he said it 's fantastic skiing , he mind the |
22 | I said you should have brought back ninety five pounds he said it 's ten pounds extra . |
23 | I said no Julie I said I have n't I said I would tell you cos I said I , she said to me do ring me and let me know , and I said I said I would and I will , I said no cos I did n't tell her when it were you see , so I said it 's this week coming and I 'll ring you this on Monday , so she said oh it was only , cos she said I saw Deb and Deb wondered , I thought yeah I bet she did she would |
24 | She said it 's alright Herbie I 'm here and he for a minute . |
25 | She said it 's double time . |
26 | Although it has yet to join the DIA , IBM said it is evaluating AlphaWindows technology and is in ‘ active discussions ’ with a UK company — thought to be Microvitec — about a possible OEM deal to be announced by the end of the year . |
27 | fucking laugh , so I said to her no I said it is this week Julie I said and it 's towards the end of the week but I 'll ring you by the weekend and let you know , well of course come the Thursday morning I have n't seen Val , and I was ever so upset because it really the end of the line money wise , I could n't do any more |
28 | New printers had to be found , which ended It 's uneasy relationship with hot metal . |
29 | Samuel Hitch , a medical superintendant of the asylum , wanted to change the way the mentally ill were treated and founded the Royal college of psychiatrists , which held it 's inaugural meeting in the building 150 years ago . |