Example sentences of "it be the [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's the streets I like . |
2 | It 's the houses they dreamed and sketched . |
3 | Mm I know , but it 's not that , it 's the games they 're just plain rubbish and cack and like that . |
4 | It 's the others I 'm worried about . |
5 | Yeah I know , I think it 's the glasses he can actually see me now or something |
6 | He wo n't pick the names , he he picks up , it 's the ones he already knows . |
7 | It 's the roads you know where our house is ? |
8 | I think it 's the things you collect that give a house character . ’ |
9 | It 's the women I hate , I quite like older men . ’ |
10 | ‘ But if it 's the giants you 're wanting to fool , then it 'd be the grand old Draoicht Suan , ’ said Pumlumon , and the Gnomes nodded sagely and said that would be it , the Draoicht Suan it would be , the spell that had kept the Trees fast asleep for so many years now , and was n't it a powerful strong spell and Pumlumon the fellow to be spinning it for them all ? |
11 | It 's the lives they lead , ’ she explained . |
12 | It 's not what they said , it 's the looks you got from some of the screws , as if to say , ‘ You should n't be laughing , what have you got to be happy about ? ’ |
13 | Huli men and women live separately , and so when the women go to bed at night , it 's the pigs they curl up with . |
14 | ‘ It 's the hens she 's worried about . ’ |
15 | It 's the trees they go for , given half a chance . |
16 | Is this great big painting , a mass of colours , you know , but a wonderful time , cos it 's the children you need |
17 | ‘ It 's the children I mind for , ’ Mrs Bean said . |
18 | Erm I think it 's the equals I du n no but |
19 | It 's the words they 're interested in , not what you actually say and the |
20 | You see what we 're saying , it 's , it 's the words you use in your objective . |
21 | It 's the airfields they 're after . ’ |
22 | It 's the edges you 've got to do look , not inside it . |
23 | After all it was introduced , and Mrs Thatcher has made a great deal of the fact that it is a head tax not a property tax , it 's the voters she wants answerable , well I 've yet to find an empty house that voted . |
24 | So I think it 's the cats she catches anything from . |
25 | Mm but no what I 'm sort of , getting back , I mean , you know , I do n't I think it 's the kids I mean , I du n no why ? |
26 | Remember , it 's the lyrics we 're interested in , we know Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the music . |
27 | It wo n't be just this week , I thought , it 's the doors it opens . |
28 | It 's the notebooks I want back . |
29 | Oh it 's the voices I ca n't stand . |
30 | It is the responses they provide which constitute the data recorded and analysed . |