Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it 's that he 's made me look at myself and see that what I believe is old and stuffy . |
| 2 | Perhaps it 's cos they do n't know the basics . |
| 3 | Or perhaps it 's because they eat all that gorgeous chocolate which , as we know , is an aphrodisiac . |
| 4 | Funnily enough , it 's an album that hardly anyone seems to have heard of , apart from the real Fleetwood Mac enthusiasts — perhaps it 's because it does n't have any of the famous tracks on it . |
| 5 | Perhaps it 's because you get to see more of the timber . |
| 6 | Perhaps it 's because he 's just been asked yet again about that record . |
| 7 | Perhaps it is as you travel to work , or as you take the dog out for a walk , or as you walk on the Downs , or when you have that quiet morning cup of coffee . |
| 8 | So perhaps it is because they have angular gyri that chimpanzees have been able to sign successfully . |
| 9 | Or perhaps it was that he had not wanted to turn Bertha 's disappointment with her daughters into bitterness by seeing him show too much interest in his son . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was because I found it hard to define his place on the island . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was because he did not defer to her , flatter her , praise her beauty and her charm , admire her ready wit , as all the men she had known before had done , when what they really liked and deferred to was the knowledge of her father 's immense fortune and the certainty that she was sure to inherit a great part of it . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was because she knew Lord C would extract a high price from her to grant a favour . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was because she went to an early Mass to have breakfast ready for them when they returned ; but she did n't like lying in bed in the mornings anyway , and as he had said many times ( admittedly without great enthusiasm ) they could quite easily go to Mass together , and wait a lit–de longer for breakfast . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was because she 'd already seen countless admiring female eyes slide in his direction ; even though they apparently had n't recognised him in his goggles and ski-hat , still they were drawn by the sheer animal magnetism of the man . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was because she compared so unfavourably with Corrie . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was because she liked Brown Owl so much that she wanted her to marry someone rather special and wonderful . |
| 17 | perhaps it was when we had the census paper |
| 18 | So it is and it goes . |
| 19 | And so it is if you do n't want to print it . |
| 20 | So it 's whether they take furniture ? |
| 21 | So it was that they went on to do other things , but separately ; a ‘ beautiful ’ working relationship was thereby broken up , and two highly creative thinkers had their play-writing ambitions stillborn . |
| 22 | And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her . |
| 23 | And so it was that she did n't hear Andrew come in and enter the sitting-room , there to see his daughter dressed for going out in her wide-skirted jersey dress , her black hair hanging loose about her shoulders , and wearing , of all things , green-lobed earrings . |
| 24 | I chose residential care and so it was that I came to Le Court In September 1977 . |
| 25 | So it was that I lay in honeycombs of tiny compartments , stacked into loose piles and sheaves with onion-skin leaves of paper . |
| 26 | So it was that I set out laboriously to catalogue the very schema of my own sanity , to list exhaustively the full range of my personal habits . |
| 27 | And so it was that he gained his passport to that respectability which lay so easily on his shoulders by the time his picture was painted : he would be apprenticed . |
| 28 | So it was that he escorted Betty there in 1986 , taking tea in the Tiffin Room and enjoying a plate of fish and chips . |
| 29 | Thus it is that we know as much as we do about the Orynthia and her voyages in the late 1830s . |
| 30 | Thus it was that we made use of every method in the book to fan into flame the natural resentment of the public against a big and unfair bully kicking a man when he was down . |