Example sentences of "it [pron] [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says I think the greatest problem for me is the mornings — having to work early — starting work at half past seven — there is n't a bus as early as that , leaving from Langford village into Bicester — so normally I have to walk it which takes 20-25 minutes — in the cold , which I absolutely hate ! |
| 2 | This is a distinct and separate legal entity from the people who own it which provides limited liability for shareholders . |
| 3 | By the looks of it she has all the potential you foresaw . ’ |
| 4 | I think about telling her that Andy was there , in his sleeping bag , listening the whole time , but while I 'm thinking about it something goes wrong ; there must have been a flaw in one of the glasses , or the weight is just too much , because there 's a cracking sound and one side of the pyramid starts to collapse , sending an avalanche of falling glass and frothing champagne spilling crashing down off the table and smashing , bouncing and splashing onto the mats and the floor below . |
| 5 | Oh no it 's a full door which is er when you open it it stays open and it 's got er what do you call it ? |
| 6 | So , I 'm thinking oh it 's hard , when I actually feel it it feels thicker at the end and it does feel better but when I 've washed it , I shall feel all hairy now all afternoon . |
| 7 | The , I mean it 's only anecdotal , but it feels to me as though the the increase they experienced in June has continued into er July , I know that 's not what we 're looking at but it it feels that way , erm |
| 8 | But it it sells all so they 're only twenty one pound then you know ! |
| 9 | I mean it it sounds stupid , but a person I knew , she was about as stupid as i was as naive as I was , because er she was pregnant , her husband was n't away but she 'd got how many , five , four children , she 'd lost three children and she 'd got , then she had four , and then she found herself pregnant again . |
| 10 | I just like it when you open it it says happy birthday . |
| 11 | We canna have everybody putting eights , nines and tens and nobody putting ones , twos , and threes because then it it becomes meaningless er , in relation to the section it 's got to bear some relation to what sort of standard you expect from a child at at such |
| 12 | Somewhere people are drumming — it must be at the far end of the village , because at times the rhythm is distinct but when the wind takes it it becomes muffled , merging with the roar of the full monsoon river . |
| 13 | It it gets evaporated eventually . |
| 14 | but usually once one gets sort of started it it gets better . |
| 15 | then V will be You can write it as sine squared but I 'm just writing this way cos it it means more . |
| 16 | I mean you ca n't put that settee here because it it blocks that door . |
| 17 | And as a a facilitating policy erm it in their it it assists all parties in er dealing with er applications that come forward that are contrary to reductive development plan . |
| 18 | and peasant antagonism ought to have been greatest and therefore you on the face of it it seems surprising does n't it that land reforms did n't take place immediately , or they were n't attempting land reform to take place immediately . |
| 19 | So if you , I mean , to go back to our initial proposition , whilst on the face of it it seems curious that in the area in south China where one would expect land reform to be easiest to achieve the communists adopt a much more moderate , slower , cautious policy but for a whole variety of reasons we , we 're , we 're tending towards the view that that would be the most appropriate anyway . |
| 20 | ‘ If I pick up something and drag it it makes this white noise sound , ’ Gaver demonstrates . |
| 21 | When he does that again but as he keeps doing it he gets louder and louder and the bang goes louder and louder . |
| 22 | In it he mentions several examples of sharp practice in the laboratory , one or two of which are new to me . |
| 23 | Or maybe maybe that is n't the first thing you want to do , if you want to do it a different way , do it whichever makes more sense to you . |