Example sentences of "[verb] it be [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christ , how long has it been since I … ? |
| 2 | How long has it been since I got a present from a girl ? |
| 3 | And Corner well er it it 's turned full circle has it were when we came and then er there were other firms they did away with some part of the shop . |
| 4 | ‘ I expect it 's because he 's a clergyman , or was , miss . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I expect it 's because I 'm writing and it takes longer , ’ Maggie confessed with a shrug . |
| 6 | ‘ I expect it 's because you 're my stepbrother , ’ Jenna said sarcastically . |
| 7 | ‘ I expect it was after you left . |
| 8 | Yeah , I think it 's b as I say it 's because I think people are wary I mean you know , not sure who 's who . |
| 9 | Some people say it 's cos he 's got a thing in the church do n't they ? |
| 10 | Because so many people so badly wanted it to succeed when it did they almost believed it was because they had willed it to . |
| 11 | Lumb says it 's because they do n't have a branch there , but we think it 's solid Labour to look at all the blue posters . |
| 12 | ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere . ’ |
| 13 | If he makes a bad shot he says it 's because he 's blind but Gary says it 's because his technique is wrong . |
| 14 | He says it 's because it makes him look naff , but it 's more than that . |
| 15 | He 's not sure of the time but he says it was after he 'd eaten his sandwich , say six in the evening . |
| 16 | Yes now what I meant was that , that erm in a group like this , the the th th the leader or the leadership role may be relatively minimal and the individualism of the members may be relevant , but I hope it was cos I I think it 's a mistake for class in groups and that so one would hope in this kind of group , the individual variation would be so important that these kind of group phenomena that Freud is talking about in this book but clearly in other groups they 're they 're more important , partly because you can never organize a group by kind of having a meeting with everybody . |
| 17 | So what we have , if I can paint it like this , is a development programme which does n't just rely on Oxfordshire Social Services putting cash into it , because there are , if we manage this process properly , other people who we can encourage to bring money into Oxfordshire , but the key thing that 'll only do it is if they 're confident that they 're dealing with a competent organization and somebody that they trust and they have some form of credibility . |
| 18 | As to the kisses , had n't he said it was because he was French ? |
| 19 | And suppo I assumed it 's because she was orphan . |
| 20 | He had picked them out unerringly and Maggie assumed it was because they were clearly too poor-looking to be guests here . |
| 21 | When you had the nightmare , I assumed it was because you 'd had a lot of men without ever reaching any kind of genuine ecstasy with them . ’ |
| 22 | Something or someone had annoyed him and instantly she assumed it was because he was landed with her here in his house . |
| 23 | To her their kinship was obvious , but she had thought it was because she knew — yet Leif also appeared to have detected it . |
| 24 | Yeah I can see it 's cos I can see name plate . |
| 25 | The best of describing it is If you are joint tenants , say it 's a house and there 's of you , you both own all the property . |
| 26 | But it 's to help it 's cos she 's a student , and it 's to help towards a special diet . |
| 27 | I have to assume it 's because they produce this call only very rarely , since I have spent quite literally thousands of hours in the woods at night . |
| 28 | I suspect it 's because they make such great watches that the women ca n't be fooled into thinking that 40 seconds is an hour and a half . |
| 29 | If your child is slow at school , you suspect it 's because you are not with them enough or because you should have read with them more . |
| 30 | The only reason most people do n't use it is cos they do n't like to get on a keyboard of a computer . |