Example sentences of "[prep] it [be] [that] he " in BNC.
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1 | The long and the short of it is that he came in to replace Andy … |
2 | Anyway , the upshot of it is that he 's written a song , for his daughter , based on the Basil Brush thing . |
3 | And the upshot of it is that he has taken the custody of the de Breos lands from the Earl of Cornwall , and bestowed it upon his beloved justiciar . |
4 | The two went into a long drinking session , and the end of it was that he bought the man 's seventeen-year-old daughter outright , with the last of his grant . |
5 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
6 | And erm he actually , he , he started off and , and was very nervous but the summing up of it was , was brilliant erm and I , I would n't put it across as well as what he did but the principle of it was that he , he suddenly turned round and said right I have now changed my job , right , you are now looking at the new managing director of Friends Provident , he says , and the first thing I am going to do is I 'm cutting all your wages to eighty five pounds a week , what are you going to do about it ? |
7 | The reason Bohm could get away with it was that he did not submit his theory to this superfluous requirement . |
8 | What is striking about it is that he is the first Anglo-Saxon king known to have abdicated to go to Rome and that he went to Rome not as a baptized Christian but to seek baptism . |
9 | ‘ One of the odd things about it is that he was wearing brand-new clothes , ’ he added . |