Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [noun] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All I did was think of it . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been south of it all day . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been search for it and here it is look at that , two in there , that 's the new one |
| 4 | And although Big Flame was never an ‘ entryist ’ party-within-a-party , like some of the Trotskyite groups , including Militant Tendency , everyone who had been part of it remained friends . |
| 5 | In fact , there has been talk of it taking up to four years to give effect to this , during which time who knows how many young people will die , while the Home Office and the Home Secretary drag their feet ? |
| 6 | Because there 'd been arguments about it earlier on in the century , had n't there ? |
| 7 | Even if there had been tons of it , a fourth or fifth share could n't have amounted to five hundred pounds . |
| 8 | Fingerspelling has been available longer and there have been studies of it . |
| 9 | Not that he did n't know its history — he had been part of it , if only as a silent witness of his brothers ' refusal to join the Fenian organisation which had started trying to recruit the young men of their day . |
| 10 | He 's a Russian émigré — came out just after the Revolution , although he had been part of it himself , and I do n't think he 's ever really settled down to ordinary life . |
| 11 | And it 's much more usual for that kind of thing to happen , so that you are more likely to get a , a minister who has a very good idea about how erm the civil service functions because he 's been part of it . |