Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [that] it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to agree with my good-sister that it was exceptional . ’ |
| 2 | Now this was not a phrase I had ever used , but I hoped with all my heart that it was true . |
| 3 | But the scorecards overwhelmingly supported my assessment that it was one-sided tedium . |
| 4 | I found to my horror that it was " Engaged " ; I had taken off with " George " in control . |
| 5 | It has come to my mind that it is contrasting er spiritual |
| 6 | There is no doubt in my mind that it was old — very , very old and I would think pre-dated the houses by several hundred years . |
| 7 | It flashed across my mind that it was just what he would do , he would n't go to the doctor . |
| 8 | It flashed through my mind that it was someone who was allowed out in the grounds of Bourani and down at Moutsa only on pain of keeping herself concealed . |
| 9 | Er there 's no doubt in my mind that it was efficient erm and it was , it was controlling time . |
| 10 | My feelings about the book were positive rather than the reverse , but I complained in my review that it was studded with references to fashionable French gurus that were purely cosmetic , adding nothing to the author 's argument . |
| 11 | My headmaster and a teacher , after a long struggle , managed to convince my Papa that it was in my best interest to pursue such a training . |
| 12 | I scoffed it down and found to my astonishment that it was delicious . |
| 13 | I can work out by the height of where the hand was on my back that it was Lorna ! |
| 14 | To my eyes it looks like the pattern , though I know with my head that it 's the background . |
| 15 | On making a very despondent journey home my wife greeted me at the door with the astounding statement that the property had been found and handed into a branch of a building society and the member of the staff had telephoned to inform my wife that it was there to collect . |
| 16 | If I say ‘ Prostitution is on the increase ’ I express my belief that it is on the increase , but what I put upon the mat for discussion is not my holding the belief , but rather the state of affairs , which I hold to be actual , but which others may not , of prostitution being on the increase . |
| 17 | ‘ I keep telling my daughter that it was probably the cost of her wedding which brought it all on . ’ |
| 18 | If I had told my grandmother that it is about an extended black family , child abuse and homosexual love , then she would not have touched it ; as it was , she loved it . |
| 19 | Perhaps you will accept my assurance that it is a matter of importance and delicacy . ’ |
| 20 | And if I 'm right in my guess that it 's the latter — that you rule your nightclub kingdom with scant regard for the welfare and well-being of the poor fools who worship at your altar , then beware . |
| 21 | But one day in late summer , when I was pointing the otter out to my passengers , and as usual it got up to move out of sight , I saw to my surprise that it was followed by two cubs ! |
| 22 | The dark eyes flashed for a second , then she saw by my face that it was n't a crack . |
| 23 | When researchers want to understand what it is like to be , say , a Moonie , they can submit themselves to the sorts of conditions that a Moonie experiences — so far as these are social ; but the real Moonie can , quite legitimately , protest that if the researcher does not have a personal experience of God or actually know in their heart that it is the Unification Church which has discovered the best way to live , they can not really understand what it is like to be a Moonie . |
| 24 | She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand , knowing in her heart that it was an excuse to curtail the physical contact with him . |
| 25 | Babushka had taken so long to clean her cabin that it was morning and the star no longer shone in the sky . |
| 26 | So successfully indeed did the Bishops of Saintes oppose the claims of their rival that it was not until the seventeenth century that La Rochelle was allowed to have a cathedral of its own . |
| 27 | She 'd made up her mind that it was all my fault ! |
| 28 | They spent the rest of the afternoon in animated discussion — so animated that Folly had gently to point out to her employee that it was time to lock up . |
| 29 | With public order close to disintegrating , the DP had emphasized during its campaign that it was the party best placed to secure further foreign food aid and investment . |
| 30 | They had their work cut out in simply trying to provide defences against the incursions of cattle raiders from the North Tyne valley , over Bewcastle Waste , or through that tract of the western fringe so unsure of its ownership that it was known as the Debatable Land ; and their own people were themselves frequently as unruly as their enemies . |