Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun] [coord] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like to read about my time and it was only really in the style magazines that I could get in touch with people of my generation — black or white . |
| 2 | So I applied for my discharge and it was granted . |
| 3 | Look , I was looking for my pen and it was there all along . |
| 4 | ‘ I had , ’ said Rosalind , hurrying in , ‘ but I stopped at the post-office to get a stamp for my letter and it was closed and the wretched stamp-machine was empty . |
| 5 | Early down-town theatres could rely on the casual trade , the ‘ droppers-in ’ , but small-town and suburban halls had to go after their trade and it was essential that managers acquaint the whole community with what was on offer . |
| 6 | She was on the point of telling him about her investigations but it was all so uncertain and there was no point in raising false hopes . |
| 7 | ‘ I was there for her birth and it was the most exciting thing I have ever experienced ! ’ exclaimed the father of the baby , and the owner of a home movie of strictly limited appeal . |
| 8 | On my life , I ordered one of them for my friend 's daughter for her birthday and it was ten pounds that 's two ninety nine . |
| 9 | Now it used the United Nations as its cover and it 's fortunate in that the Soviet Union was absent from the Security Council and so was not able to veto the resolution which authorized American intervention . |
| 10 | You have another country along that coast , Nigeria , which has just got to the stage where it 's got through its forest and it 's not exporting anything at all , if anything it 's importing . |
| 11 | The Business is being purchased ( partly ) for its goodwill and it is reasonable for the Vendor to be asked ( in effect ) whether there are any significant risks which would adversely affect that goodwill by virtue of the sale . |
| 12 | Our main aim in producing the magazine is to give readers inspiration and ideas for their homes and it 's heart-warming to hear of the success you 've had . |
| 13 | May I just say that the majority of people will care for their animals but it is those people who buy , we have s er cases where erm people will turn up on Christmas day and say to their elderly relative , We bought you a puppy . |
| 14 | Angels posed obligingly in front of my easel and it was nothing for Christ to stand on the river in front of this Mill . |
| 15 | It has been six weeks , almost , but the friendly hot flush fills me to the top of my head and it is beautiful . |
| 16 | Like most graduates , my student days were a very important part of my life and it 's good to feel I ‘ belong ’ again . |
| 17 | I was just wondering if I could change the timetable of my visit but it is n't important … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You blame me for returning to England because of my job but it was n't just that and it was n't all my fault . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've run your warning past my mind and it 's failed to register . |
| 20 | Steve Royle , the rowing director , says the new centre has improved the quality of their training and it is the only one he knows of in the country . |
| 21 | Little is known of their courtship but it is said that , for a brief time , they were happy . |
| 22 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
| 23 | Then it gave a flick of its tail and it was gone . |
| 24 | Nothing is known of its origins but it is engraved ‘ Reading 1892 ’ . |
| 25 | The village retains little of its past and it is hoped that what does remain will be preserved . |
| 26 | The boy had been told unequivocally not to let her off the lead — the riding-school only used the land by grace of its owner and it was a shooting estate — but he hated keeping the dog straining at the lead and knew that she would always come to his call . |
| 27 | Jones ( Note ) [ 1957 ] 1 W.L.R. 1118 , also cited by Kerr L.J. , a granddaughter was allowed to occupy one room in the house of her grandmother and it was held that the granddaughter was entitled to succeed to the tenancy of the whole house . |
| 28 | ‘ The firework burned the top of her head but it was lucky it was n't her face . ’ |
| 29 | " And everywhere he is in chains ! " cried the Collector urgently in his delirium , causing both young ladies to turn anxiously towards his bed but it was nothing , merely a passing fancy in his overheated brain . |
| 30 | For a short time at least you should be able to trace some of his life and it is all there in the Dordogne . |