Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] mr [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So it 's only Mr Stonebird we 're considering — as a clergyman 's son and an anthropologist he might drink a great deal . ’ |
| 2 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
| 3 | A number than went for him and it was then Mr Johnson brandished a kitchen knife . |
| 4 | But it was only Mr Yeltsin 's behind-the-scenes authority which won the day for the reformers , and the respite is likely to be brief . |
| 5 | Her brother Hindley , although invited , did not come , and Isabella was not invited , so it was only Mr Edgar and the servants who attended the ceremony . |