Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] be [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has always been you , Gemini girl . |
| 2 | ‘ Well then , since it was my fault we missed the train again , it 'd better be me who does the talkin' when we get there . |
| 3 | ‘ If we 're going to talk to Grandson , 39 , then it 'd better be you who does it . |
| 4 | ‘ One of us will have to , and I suppose it had better be me . |
| 5 | In his own life it had always been he who was the supplicant , telephoning Diana from call boxes on his rounds in the hope of closing some nagging gap of intimacy left at breakfast , and always having to hide the agony of dread that her casualness could cause him for fear of the danger of irritating her . |
| 6 | The character I would 've liked to have played more than anything else if it had ever been you know , if there was one going now would be Rigsby in Rising Damp . |
| 7 | It would n't have been so bad , of course , if it had only been him , but there was that second-year nurse whom she had accused of loitering with him in the corridor — that was going to take some fancy footwork to get out of without loss of face . |
| 8 | Well no , not particularly tall but certainly growing and it 's probably been It 's probably just er related to that . |
| 9 | It means that someone is being kept out of the know , and it 's often been me in the past , and it 's me now . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's always been me who said no . ’ |
| 11 | He chuckled , in self-approbation : ‘ But it 's always been me who left them … ’ |