Example sentences of "it be [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Might it be , I 'm only hazarding a guess , you realize that , but might it be that they want you to get them out here again ? ’ |
| 2 | Can it be that you condone his actions ? |
| 3 | ‘ How long will it be before they give me the all-clear , do you think ? ’ |
| 4 | He 's off sick today , from today , how long will it be before he gets his first cheque from us . |
| 5 | ‘ How would it be if I returned your gift so that you can give it at the door ? ’ |
| 6 | Well it 's since you know we had that party last weekend . |
| 7 | It 's not so much that , it 's that I prefer my cooking to your cooking . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's that I think you 're gay ! |
| 9 | It 's not the buying them that 's cunning , it 's just that I ca n't help being grateful ( I did n't actually say I was grateful , but I was n't sharp ) , it 's that he presents them so humbly , with such an air of please-don't-thank-me and I-deserve-it-all . |
| 10 | It 's but I mean I actually it was right down in there , right up , right round and it was painful . |
| 11 | It 's whether we do it now and we let her have it before |
| 12 | It 's like I said you you can lift up the cover and change four while one 's playing . |
| 13 | I thought then I 'd be able to use it as an airing cupboard but it still did n't work but it 's like you said it 's because it 's got such a good |
| 14 | It 's like you say your mum 'll be able to get wo n't she ? |
| 15 | It 's cos you enjoy our company so much in n it Chris ? |
| 16 | Wan na swap it in your mum 's punny Yeah I know , it 's cos I stretched it when I wanked her . |
| 17 | But it 's cos I changed it , they were going to put a large fence in |
| 18 | And it 's cos I think it 's important that |
| 19 | I got it , it 's cos I think it was for a a thinner shoe mind |
| 20 | ‘ But if it 's as they say it is and everything goes smoothly , David will only miss four or five matches at the most . |
| 21 | but I think it 's as you bring them up is n't it ? |
| 22 | except it 's as you find it , rather than being produced artificially . |
| 23 | So it , it 's as you say it 's a very tough , hard life and in order to survive , people really do need the help of other people and that 's why you 've really got to conform to a large extent in the society and you have n't got a lot of choice about erm you know wh what you 'd like to especially if you 're , if you 're young and female and not much men not if you want to get any wives that is . |
| 24 | Well I suppose you could erm I suspect it would be cheaper than but it would n't actually increase your pension per se at the end of the day because it 's as I said it 's a separate you know it 's a separate sort of erm income to your pension lump sum . |
| 25 | Well I think it 's If you want it . |
| 26 | If we go to front-wheel drive , it 's because we think it 's better . |
| 27 | why consumers pay er in the European Community , it 's because we paying them two or three times more for our food than we would do if we purchased it on the world market erm . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's because we found them . |
| 29 | That 's not because people had bigger families , it 's because they pack them with young , poor parents , ghettos for women and children . |
| 30 | It 's not that they need them , it 's because they know everyone else has got them . |