Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] it be [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or had it been his sister ? |
| 2 | PC TONY Spong arrested a man at a burgled petrol station — and found it was his brother . |
| 3 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 4 | But when he threw open the door to a room upstairs she saw a trouser-press and a black silk robe flung on a chair and knew it was his bedroom . |
| 5 | When the sister was summoned up and said it was her grave had been dug , he realised there was nothing more he could do and the whole thing was adjourned to the community centre for a couple of hours while big men with shovels rather grudgingly got to work . ’ |
| 6 | After she was dead , after we had said the prayers for her , her son , the young one , brought it to me , all newly furbished like this , and said it was her wish that I should have it , for a musician without an instrument is a warrior without weapon or armour . |
| 7 | She had visited us many times over a nu number of years and said it was our turn to visit her and we just laughed . |
| 8 | My father swore at me , and said it was my fault you did n't come . |