Example sentences of "[adv] be [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is good work , this , Angus , it is bringing the thing home to plenty folk who have only been in it for the furore so far , for the chance to squeeze their girls in the crowd and all that kind of thing . |
| 2 | ‘ However , it 's all been worth it , ’ he says . |
| 3 | After a weekend of brooding silence and no service , Nigel began to think it had all been worth it . |
| 4 | Oh yes , it had all been worth it . |
| 5 | He says it 's taken a year to edit , but it 's all been worth it . |
| 6 | I started on January 10 , but it 's all been worth it . ’ |
| 7 | We 've all been through it and we know what pain 's about . ’ |
| 8 | We 've all been through it . |
| 9 | You realise they 've all been at it a lot longer than I have . |
| 10 | So , if my partner ever plans to deceive me , the woman he fancies had better be worth it . |
| 11 | That alone was worth it … |
| 12 | That is why many Opposition Members have consistently and persistently been against it . |
| 13 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 14 | And the more intense they are , the shorter the duration , so Anna should soon be over it . ’ |
| 15 | I would not be without it now . |
| 16 | ‘ The result is : ( 1 ) That this Act does not necessarily require anything to be done under it which might not be done without causing a nuisance ; ( 2 ) That as to those things which may or may not be under it , there is no evidence on the face of the Act that the legislature supposed it to be impossible for any of them to be done ( if they were done at all ) somewhere and under some circumstances , without creating a nuisance ; and ( 3 ) That the legislature has manifested no intention that any of these optional powers , as to asylums , should be exercised at the expense of , or so as to interfere with , any man 's private rights . |
| 17 | But the decay may not be spreading , in which case the damage done by intervention will not be worth it . |
| 18 | The risk would certainly not be worth it to the little ex-scribe . |
| 19 | The party would leave for France at the beginning of July and Ferdinando would not be of it . |
| 20 | My name might just as well not be on it , ’ objected the author . |
| 21 | ‘ German unity depends first of all on the German people … and France will not be against it . |
| 22 | I do n't want to not be in it but I do n't want to , you know |
| 23 | The competition may already be at it . |
| 24 | He would certainly have been killed instantly had he still been at it . |
| 25 | As I say , I 've always been like it that far for ages . |
| 26 | That 's all there 's ever been to it . |
| 27 | is that erm , have you ever been to it where there 's like a ledge up here you know where you can ski round slowly down the mountain and then there 's a part here and then there 's a run going down there like that sort of thing . |
| 28 | Ai n't you ever been in it ? |
| 29 | or still be on it when I , when |
| 30 | He was entitled , I supposed , to his small exploratory excursion around my character ; and if he himself , I thought , had been wholly fulfilled by uniform , he would still be in it . |