Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be the [noun] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just recently I read about this it 's not getting air into it or something is the reason it ex it can suddenly shoot up all over you . |
| 2 | It made no sense — none — yet here in black and white was proof that nothing was the way it had seemed . |
| 3 | Conscious of a ripping sound , she heard her zip go , then her taffeta skirt was rustling to the floor and he was pulling her down among its glossy folds , his lips marauding over hers so that it was the way it was in the unrequited dreams of the empty nights when everything came down to the touch of him like the still centre of the entire world . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that the Whitney Museum was the first to show the photographs of the notorious late Robert Mapplethorpe , and only recently declared that it was creating a department of photography , the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation announced last month that it was the Guggenheim it would be patronising with gifts in money and kind . |
| 5 | Yeah , yeah but you 've just been and then for us now , cos we 're the parents it 's a bag of shit in it Christmas ? |
| 6 | And erm he he said it 's stupid , he said they were given all this and it 's the homework it 's nothing to do with the revision you 've got to do in his the exams ! |
| 7 | If it was the battery it must have finally given up the ghost , because there was n't even the faintest wheeze or whisper from the starter motor . |
| 8 | But you 're the ones it 's not me it 's you that counts in the end . |
| 9 | Like most players it was always McGurk 's dream to play in an All Ireland senior final , but there was the danger it would remain simply that , a dream . |
| 10 | But it 's the time it takes |
| 11 | But it was the way it was . ’ |
| 12 | But because it 's the way it 's become . |
| 13 | a very small ship , a frigate , and er the captain was at most Lieutenant Commander and the Princess Royal was doing the re-dedication and because it was the winter it was being done inside a big shed , that 's the background . |