Example sentences of "it be [adv] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , I do n't I , I think it were yesterday morning I oh no it were Monday morning . |
| 2 | I think it 's rather dandy he 's finished off , he 's put this white erm stuff you know what they squeeze from now . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not money I want — it 's Ace Elliot . ’ |
| 4 | And it 's not platypus it 's sounds like a type of pen . |
| 5 | It 's not pornography it 's art . |
| 6 | It 's not RCA they are trying to put one over , it is the system . |
| 7 | had a little bit of diarrhoea , well it 's not diarrhoea it 's such a , I know |
| 8 | It 's not luck we want now . |
| 9 | Have a look look very close it 's not mag it 's No oh that 's capital N this is a little N M N. |
| 10 | We get on motorway , no it 's not bridge you get on motorway and we go , go up to Beverley I 'll ask Paul |
| 11 | It 's not rubbish it 's the truth . |
| 12 | ‘ I have a serious point , ’ said Dyson , ‘ and that is that nowadays it 's not excellence which leads to celebrity , but celebrity which leads to excellence . |
| 13 | It 's nearly Christmas I reckon . |
| 14 | Outside , the daylight sludge is darkening , and it 's nearly time we will be allowed back in that depressing hole . |
| 15 | It 's just polisher he could get a job , see that . |
| 16 | Well it 's just excitement you know , she hardly does |
| 17 | But even if it 's just darkness I want that peace . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's just background I need at the moment . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's also time I got down to thinking positively about this show . |
| 20 | And then I , well if it 's really income he needs , I thought he could look at an equities portfolio for the eighty thousand , say , forty thousand in er groceries and forty thousand in pharmaceutical . |
| 21 | Yeah how much effect it does have I do n't know because where but I think it 's it 's really basis you know it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's really time I was going , madame . |
| 23 | The music industry is a rip-off and it 's about time something is done about it ! |
| 24 | It 's about time something was done to help people who have this complaint . |
| 25 | It 's a profession and it 's about time they started to act like professionals . ’ |
| 26 | He said , ‘ We 've been through all this before and it 's about time they were getting things right . |
| 27 | That 's why I 'm glad that WISE thing , I mean it 's about time they bloody realized — I 'm convinced that once a woman gets into science she 's just as good as if not better than , any man . |
| 28 | It 's about time they brought someone like yourself in to sort it out — no offence meant to you , Mr Aplin , but Mr Eddy ‘ ere 's the best detective they 've got up at Scotland Yard , make no mistake about that . ’ |
| 29 | Two Chinese teachers have just graduated from an international centre in Hebrew They say both China and Israel have ancient traditions , and it 's about time they got to know more about each other . |
| 30 | We , we , we said it 's about time they grew potatoes in that field |