Example sentences of "it [be] a [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Had it been a ploy it would have been a rewarding one , but Vanessa was not given to ploys . |
2 | She repeated the word softly , testing the sound of it on her lips , as if it were a word she had never heard before . |
3 | There is a particular kind of French personality who always pronounce the word francais as if it were a football he is heading towards less privileged mortals . |
4 | In fact , facing page 119 , there it was , with Westerby duly posing in front as though it were an animal he had just hunted to its death . |
5 | It 's a route he has just retraced for the character of Fergus , the IRA man who attempts to re-make his life in The Crying Game ] , an experience Jordan understands well . |
6 | So i i it 's a standard you know dinky little thing like y you us you use You know the with their little twirly thing and er the you saw the |
7 | It 's a lellow I mean a yellow tie . |
8 | ‘ It 's a change we were both prepared to take . |
9 | We s it 's a word we use quite a lot . |
10 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled shallows of the ocean . |
11 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled depths of the ocean . |
12 | It 's a word you are unlikely to find in the dictionary but , if you think of it as the opposite to ‘ extrude ’ , meaning to thrust or push out , then the term becomes more understandable . |
13 | If I write this on the board , I 'll break it down for you because it 's a word you may well see , sorry about that |
14 | Well it 's a skill I have . |
15 | You are all familiar with our loyal supporters , but what about those people on the fringes who may have given a donation or done something for Save The Children in the past , but never really followed it up and there are the people who are interested who think , it 's a charity I feel I ought to support . |
16 | Let's see if we can move them on this year so that they start to think it 's a charity I know I really want to support . |
17 | Oscar , oh it 's a comedy you know |
18 | It 's a bike it 's electric . |
19 | It 's a look I never thought he 'd give me . |
20 | It 's a feature we always enjoy compiling as we never fail to learn something from it . |
21 | But it 's a duster you take to it , not one of the latest hydraulic drills , and even as you dust , you must do it lovingly . |
22 | If it 's a will it 's the executor or the one executor of the number of them who are proving it . |
23 | It 's a reputation we 've kept to the present day . |
24 | Like most other immigrants , Rita came here following a dream and it 's a dream she does n't want to give up . |
25 | It 's a fate she 's accepted with surprising equanimity . |
26 | It 's a threat we 've taken very seriously . |
27 | You know what I mean , it 's a narcotic it 'll send some of you more asleep than you already are ! |
28 | It 's a play I have seen acted regularly in each village , and on every occasion it 's exactly the same . |
29 | Our childhood shapes the kind of people we become , and influences our choice of career , so it 's a subject we often turn to on the show . |
30 | It 's a subject we do not talk about . ’ |