Example sentences of "[vb infin] be [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them do it , he must have been at it quite a bit . |
| 2 | Witness the serried ranks of highly paid company chairmen who maintain , in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary , that the Eighties enriched us , that we are immeasurably better off as a result of the Thatcher experiment than we would have been without it . |
| 3 | It was unanimously agreed by the platform that if Amaranth had carried Salome 's platter as well as the seven veils , Jeffrey Archer 's head should have been on it . |
| 4 | That 's why you might have been on it you see . |
| 5 | She sighed , and wondered if all she had done to help the young couple could possibly have been worth it . |
| 6 | ‘ It would almost have been worth it . |
| 7 | Will it all have been worth it ? |
| 8 | Some would say it would have been worth it if only to gain some insight into the arcane workings of SCOTVEC . |
| 9 | If the rifle was all right and had n't got sand inside the sights or anywhere else awkward to clean , it would almost have been worth it . |
| 10 | ‘ Cropper will have been through it with a toothcomb . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd have been in it and in those bars in Gibraltar giving it the big lips by last night . ’ |
| 12 | FUNNY TO reflect that , if the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame was n't a self-stroking shithole concept graveyard for Rolling Stone readers to drape their senile drool over , Vince Clarke would have been in it years ago . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's got its attractions , but you should have been in it last night . ’ |
| 14 | Which would have been very attractive , unobtrusive and none of us would have been against it , and when they came to put in the application to convert it , making it a meter wider and turn that into an extra bedroom or whatever was , we said that there was no parking , and we said what would happen and East Devon went ahead and approved that , and exactly in everything we 've said which was recorded in this council |