Example sentences of "it [be] the [noun] you [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were thinking , oh it were the day you came up with them and then you went off to , er |
| 2 | Well it , it were the variety you got at . |
| 3 | it 's the style you want |
| 4 | It 's the policeman you know |
| 5 | It 's the way you speak to people . |
| 6 | It 's the way you speak |
| 7 | It 's the way you speak to it |
| 8 | It 's the way you drive it . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's the way you drive it . ’ |
| 10 | No it 's stress because it 's your , it 's the way you perceive things . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not just what you wrote that hurts us , Lizzy , it 's the way you 've been living a lie all this time . ’ |
| 12 | No it 's the way you draw it . |
| 13 | It 's the way you draw it . |
| 14 | It 's the way you dress and act . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's the way you use it . |
| 16 | Francis who stopped talking only sometimes , and Marina the theatre director who listened and had everyone else listening , a perfect example of it 's not what you say , it 's the way you say it . |
| 17 | It 's er it 's like , y'know if your dog 's called Rover , it 's if you want get it to pay attention , it 's the way you say Rover or B M W or . |
| 18 | So why I said to you on the telephone as you say it 's not what you say it 's the way you say it . |
| 19 | Well I do it all look at it 's the way you say it . |
| 20 | It 's the way you build it up and the people who live in it … |
| 21 | Well I suppose it 's the way you wanted . |
| 22 | But it 's , it 's the way you interpret it , as she says it , I suppose . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's not size , it 's the way you hit them , ’ I said . |
| 24 | And , while she was staring at him thunderstruck , ‘ I never know whether it 's the man you congratulate or the woman , but anyway , I 'm dead chuffed about your engagement . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It 's the skill you 've got that really counts — the ability not to know things , or to know them without knowing that you know them . |
| 26 | It 's the roads you know where our house is ? |
| 27 | And it 's the company you know to hear somebody else . |
| 28 | I think it 's the things you collect that give a house character . ’ |
| 29 | It 's the stuff you put in apple pies in n it ? |
| 30 | It 's just because or they over estimated it or it 's the price you know |