Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not imagine how on earth he even came to know about them because it was long before radio was introduced . |
| 2 | People have that idea about me but it 's not so . |
| 3 | Meg Dennison — she housekeeps for the Reverend and Mrs Copley at the Old Rectory — thinks we ought to do more for them but it 's difficult to see precisely what . |
| 4 | no , no , half of this stuff we can actually keep bi , or or leave , leave for them because it 's actually relevant information . |
| 5 | We have a signal when we are going for them and it is up to me to go in and score . |
| 6 | A critic had coined a phrase for them and it was taken up as a catch phrase — ‘ They dance as one woman and what a woman . ’ |
| 7 | Yet would it not have been better for them if 't were not done at all ? |
| 8 | Acquiring a good interview technique is as important for people employing one person to work directly for them as it is for those who will be taking on large numbers to work for a company . |
| 9 | The demob was as slow for them as it was for us . |
| 10 | It reminded me yet again that our captivity was as much of a strain for them as it was for us , here in Lebanon . |
| 11 | ‘ But sometimes a band has a magic balance between them and it 's so wonderful . |
| 12 | I , well I just did n't realize it was anything like that , I had I 've had four children and the last one there was thirteen years difference between them and it was really , really terrible ! |
| 13 | They sort of decided for me that it was n't my perfect vocation . |
| 14 | My Fender now is comfortable for me because it 's the bass I started out with , and I 'm used to that neck width which is like a tree trunk . |
| 15 | That 's the one for me because it 's so raunchy sounding and it 's got a real grit to it that I think is just fantastic . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ I got family and friends to video the match for me because it was my great chance to make a name for myself in front of millions on TV — and I blew it . ’ |
| 17 | The newspaper on the table is problematic for me because it was problematic for my mother , a symbol of all she 'd hoped to escape and all she 'd landed herself in . |
| 18 | I need , at the moment in terms of corrective action on quiffs , I am sending quiffs out to procedure owners , and I need to know whether suggestive procedure changes or not , and it 's better for me if it is out in that order then I can go through and mark the quiffs off as being erm the changes or not . |
| 19 | This car would be perfect for me if it was a hatchback , as I need that for work . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I feel fine and I could ride next week , but there are no horses for me and it 's a bit cold , ’ the 57-year-old said last night . |
| 21 | ’ But she bought it for me and it 's brilliant . |
| 22 | It was never a problem for me and it was never a problem for my family . |
| 23 | I says I want to learn sommat so I went to and I do n't know what it was , whether it was my attitude , but they , they asked me to do this and I was so good at it , so they started finding jobs for me and it was at and I was anxious for knowledge , and I tell you took anything on , which is important and the big firms did n't . |
| 24 | Then I said : ‘ It wo n't be over for me until it 's over for everybody . ’ |
| 25 | Coldly , calmly , she walked towards her room and walked in , so carefully shutting the door after her that it was more of a controlled insult than any violent bang to the two men still watching . |
| 26 | One is married already , one has declared that she will never take a husband , and the third has two suitors after her as it is . |
| 27 | After that I made a habit of sending Timmy upstairs ahead of me when it 's time to go to bed . |
| 28 | It may be so , but diplomatic calculation also would have persuaded both of them that it was better if Alice did not marry an Angevin . |
| 29 | While they lived in la Sologne it never occurred to either of them that it was even possible for people like themselves to study music and become professional musicians . |
| 30 | Not all the views may be as pleasurable as that of North Oxfordshire but the history of at least part of the English landscape can be seen from all of them whether it be the story of the development of a north London suburb , seen by a student from a garret window in Stoke Newington , the growth of a medieval town viewed by a young man from the upper windows of an eighteenth-century house in the centre of Lichfield , Staffordshire , or the development of a Cambridgeshire village in front of an ageing civil servant from a study in a 1960s neo-Georgian estate house . |