Example sentences of "it be [prep] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's about putting something back into your roots . ’ |
| 2 | It 's about losing everything ’ |
| 3 | You might take this with you on shopping trips to see whether it 's worth buying lots of cut-price special offers . |
| 4 | It 's worth having one just to see the expression on your enemy 's face as the Giant jumps up and down on his cherished troops . |
| 5 | Sometimes , with Prince , it 's like watching someone else watching himself masturbate in a mirror . |
| 6 | It 's a question that their parents may also be unable to answer , so it 's important that students be given some idea of what it 's like to earn one 's living creatively as early as possible , and so help dispel some of the fear and disbelief that discussions about this ‘ odd ’ way of working always seem to produce . |
| 7 | It 's like caressing something sacred . |
| 8 | Finance director Colin Stone , 44 , said : ‘ We can remember what it 's like to have nothing . |
| 9 | You never even set fire to a man on the ground , so you do n't know what it 's like to burn one . ’ |
| 10 | Do you realise what it 's like having something like this hanging over your head ? ’ |
| 11 | You do need a mouse to run this program but it is that good it is worth buying one just to play . |
| 12 | In the period immediately before a race it is worth eating something sweet to provide glucose and drink plenty of fluids since in a long race you can become dehydrated and can lose up to 5lb . |
| 13 | There may be some pleasures for which it is worth risking one 's life but to do so for a cigarette is an illustration of the sheer insanity of addictive disease . |
| 14 | It is about losing everything … job , house and the years spent in trying to build a business . ’ |
| 15 | However , we all know what it is like to start something entirely new and to be told at the beginning that rows of holes have to be followed by two knit rows and then , when it all seems to be going well , to discover that there are two transferring rows one after the other , sounding like a contradiction in terms . |
| 16 | 16 ) of the evacuation of Attica that the Athenians took it so badly because it was like leaving one 's polis ; this is on the face of it a paradox because they were going from their country demes to the polis . |
| 17 | It was like seeing someone walking up and down a wall . |
| 18 | It was like telling someone they had just lost at Russian roulette . |
| 19 | It was like thinking someone was a pain . |
| 20 | It was like watching somebody wring a chicken 's neck . |
| 21 | It was like watching someone push at an invisible turnstile . |
| 22 | It was like watching someone else have that dream we all have : where we 're already late and we 've got to clear these last few things , but every time we try , something else gets in the way . |
| 23 | Later , the explanations the young Americans of Charlie Company gave were singularly mundane : ‘ I wanted to see what it was like to shoot someone … |
| 24 | Her parents were old and had forgotten , if ever they had known , what it was like to love someone as she loved Rob . |
| 25 | ‘ And terrible though it is , Mama , is n't it better to feel like this now than never to have known what it was like to love someone so much ? ’ |
| 26 | It was like interviewing someone who had answered one of her frequent advertisements for a daily maid , trying to create a spurious atmosphere of equality and friendship that would compensate for the low pay she had to offer . |