Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] what [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , he told Mummy , and now she 's furious , because apparently it 's what she 'd been hoping for . |
| 2 | This is what she wants and so perhaps it is what she needs . |
| 3 | So it 's what they want to talk about anyway |
| 4 | But , well it 's what I 've just said ! |
| 5 | Now erm how have we got er I 've next thing on the handout is something I 've stuck on about the way in which erm er well it 's what I 've just covered about the the way in which some sorts of therapies for people who 've been abused as children tend to embody rather heterosexist assumptions which has been stated by Jenny Kissinger for example . |
| 6 | Mm , well it 's what you thought |
| 7 | Well it 's what you want with your arm int it ? |
| 8 | Well it was what we had to carry you see . |
| 9 | Surely it was what he had seen as her present stupidity that had earned her his contempt , since the past was the past , and she was still reluctant to explain anything more than the absolute minimum necessary to put an end to his increasingly unbearable taunts . |
| 10 | Yeah , presumably it 's what she 's used to , she 's used to floppy . |
| 11 | But abroad it 's what you 've suddenly become ; |
| 12 | And that is that in the projections of housing requirements for the City of York , not Greater York but the City of York , the County Council have a figure of four thousand four hundred households extra , but propose a provision of only three thousand three hundred dwellings extra , that 's purely within York , and the question really therefore for the County Council is I had thought that their dwelling requirements , that their , sorry their their policy H One figure for York was what they thought the requirements were , but maybe it 's what they think the limited capacity is , and they are foreseeing an overspill of thousand odd from the city of York into Greater York . |
| 13 | Maybe it was what he wanted all along . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Certainly it 's what I want , ’ said Robyn , so fiercely that her mother let the subject drop . |