Example sentences of "it [be] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Has it been in there with the books ?
2 ‘ Leave it be for today , ’ Alec advised .
3 Would it be worth actually having a , having a sort of a planning meeting , say you know for the first half hour of one of these meetings , the next one say that we have , you know , a wall planner , you know , a chart and
4 It were about twoish .
5 as if it were for best .
6 And so we 've got to desire to have our broken relationship with God restored , you see we need to receive what God offers in Christ , the fact that Christ died for our sins does not mean a thing to us until we say yes I accept it for me , I believe you died for me , I receive it , I 'm linked into it , you see your house can be , let me give you a very simple illustration , your house is linked up with er Eastern Electricity and there is so many er I du n no what , what the what it is , but there is the power there , the there are , there are kilo watts of power on tap in your home , but in the winter you 're cold , when it gets dark outside , it 's dark inside the cooker , the electric cooker does n't work , the fridge is not operating the food is going rotten , you ca n't watch a programme on television , why , because you have n't plugged into the source of the power , it 's as simple as that , you ca n't blame the Electricity Board , it 's not Eastern Electricity 's fault it 's your fault because all the plugs are out of the sockets and it does n't matter what the Electricity Board does short of blowing up your house , they can do nothing for you and it does n't matter what God has done in Christ until we as it were to also plug in , it does n't mean a thing to us , but the moment we link in , that 's the change , the lights come on , there 's , there 's heat there , the stove works , the , the radio , the television , the record player , they 're all operating , the freezer 's working , the situation has changed , we needs to receive what God offers us in Christ
7 I wish it were to here .
8 ‘ I wish it were to here .
9 It were on here , yeah .
10 To get well he en , insisted on driving all the way up the drive , I said if it were on there would be a
11 But questions about the objective consistency of a practice , asked as it were from outside that practice , make no sense .
12 I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms .
13 Following from Richard and Jenny erm , they both had to attend a meeting in Dublin but it 's with absolutely no other alternative .
14 ‘ Well , if it 's on again , and you 're using your own pony , you 've a horse to spare . ’
15 It 's on here now .
16 It 's on here but it 's not on here .
17 It 's on there .
18 Er I particularly like the land that it 's on there , that adds a bit of interest to it , it 's another view , another sort of point to attract your eye .
19 It 's on there Steve , and the amount that
20 It 's on there .
21 I had the microphone like that nobody even knows it 's on there do n't take any notice of it .
22 It 's on there .
23 Oh it 's on there .
24 It 's on there , need it , needed it .
25 Oh it 's on there .
26 It 's on there .
27 Cos you know , as long as it 's on there .
28 it 's on there , it 's on that side
29 I think , bet it 's on there now in a minute in n it ?
30 It 's on there .
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