Example sentences of "and [pron] be [pron] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's nothing to it , I mean crumbs ! |
| 2 | ‘ Wind power is cheaper , cleaner and safer — and there 's plenty of it , ’ he told the Inspector with disarming certainty . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't mind , ’ he said , ‘ as long as it 's strong and there 's plenty of it . ’ |
| 4 | The face of the Jersey is noticeably dished ( concave ) and there is something about it that is strongly suggestive of the humpless short-horned ‘ Iberian ’ breeds of the Middle East , Egypt and the coast of North Africa . |
| 5 | And there was something about it that froze the blood , even before he woke up and knew it was real . |
| 6 | I could see our ship , but it was wrecked and there was nobody near it . |
| 7 | That avenue was obviously closed to us and there was nothing for it but to go en masse to Jimmy Coutts and lay our case before him . |
| 8 | This was a disaster of some magnitude , and there was nothing for it but to seek the man out and tell him what had happened . |
| 9 | She found she had torn most of the mourning band away from her sleeve and there was nothing for it but to pull it off entirely . |
| 10 | And then the drawbridge was falling , with a clanking and a whirring of machinery and the light was pouring into the courtyard and the Gnomes were cheering and the giants were nodding to one another , and there was nothing for it but to ride away with Snodgrass , with Balor loping along at their side , with Fenella behind in the hands of the Gruagach . |
| 11 | Then , as she passed the door of the room where the dancing was , Robert appeared , and there was nothing for it but to repeat Dawn 's message . |
| 12 | The side which had lain on the river bed was green and moss-grown and there was nothing about it except for its shape and its anomalous position in the water to show that it might have been used as a lethal weapon . |
| 13 | We all went home having had little but fruit , cheese and Texas-size shrimps for three days , but it was delicious , convenient and appealing , and there was plenty of it . |
| 14 | The land was cheap and there was plenty of it , room for an amusement centre and communal dining hall , children 's play areas between the fir trees and lines of tiny chalets fronted by pebble-dash walls and mock Tudor porches , copies of the latest fashion in middle-class suburbia . |
| 15 | But Boiotia was not a major colonizing state because — and this is the fundamental fact about her — her soil was good , something which strikes any traveller who crosses Mt Kithairon into Boiotia from Attica , and there was plenty of it , especially in the two plains to north and south controlled by Orchomenos and Thebes respectively . |