Example sentences of "it [be] you [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would n't have managed eighteen holes had it been you know a hilly course . |
| 2 | ‘ Could it be you recognise in me things you despise in yourself ? ’ |
| 3 | Could it be you want me to touch you ? ’ |
| 4 | Well there there i they used to s you know invite everybody you said to you know everybody down on the picket line , well we were kids we used to go like re to be quite honest like we went because it were you know a bit of fun really . |
| 5 | Well in a sense how do you know you 're not , as it were you know in many cases . |
| 6 | yeah I think that 's probably the best thing and gradually the past you 've missed might start fitting into place as it were you know if you , if you keep up with the present , I think that 's probably the best thing so er and , you know , er I know it 's no comfort but these things take time , you know it takes time to get socialized into something and it takes time to get used to a way of working . |
| 7 | I said no Julie I said I have n't I said I would tell you cos I said I , she said to me do ring me and let me know , and I said I said I would and I will , I said no cos I did n't tell her when it were you see , so I said it 's this week coming and I 'll ring you this on Monday , so she said oh it was only , cos she said I saw Deb and Deb wondered , I thought yeah I bet she did she would |
| 8 | But it 's you get a terrific view once you 've |
| 9 | And no only that it 's you 've got w one or the Twelve Hundred , it 's four o'clock . |
| 10 | It 's you 've got to be first to find it . |
| 11 | But yet I happened to say to Carole one night , she says no I love to see what I bloody own well I suppose it 's you 've got microwave and a wee oven or whatever |
| 12 | In fact it 's an improvement rather than an alteration , it 's you 've actually improved it have n't you ? |
| 13 | And it 's You go straight up and it 's in that bottom left hand corner . |
| 14 | Coming in at all , so that 's , that is n't easy , but it , eh were it works it 's really good I mean for example we , we d o up the Poll Tax enforcement policy , erm and again it was where the Cou I mean if the Council had followed the legislation on Poll Tax collection , it 's you know , erm and it did n't want to do that , and so again well , it 's , well it 's related to this legislation bit , but we looked at , we looked at how we could get round that legal procedure and we looked at developing a more sensitive policy and we had to do that with other departments . |
| 15 | maybe this year because it 's you know the first kind of year of it |
| 16 | Well I 'll tomorrow morning phone them up find out exactly what time , and register you rather than me if it 's you know if I ca n't get to it . |
| 17 | When it takes over your life , you know , anything that happens to you is related back to food whether it 's you know , connected or not , that is when it becomes an eating problem . |
| 18 | See so it 's just by learning the pattern it 's like say if you were you were playing football every time somebody every time the ball came towards you you had to learn all about the way the ball goes Oh it 's you know it 's slowing down cos the grass is wet and it 's curling and things like that . |
| 19 | Plot it away and draw the graph , but it 's you know |
| 20 | It 's good , but it 's you know , it 'll fight er with anything , any sort of beer or whisky or any of these things , but it 'll also fight with cough bottles . |
| 21 | wo n't put themselves out for the firm and it 's , it 's you know |
| 22 | And it 's you know , some say yes , some say no . |
| 23 | It 's you know , if you 're talking in milliseconds and then you go to five years , |
| 24 | Yeah but it 's You know it 's it 's it it is it 's stupid . |
| 25 | Well yes it 's it I du n no it 's you know I do n't know want to say You know basically the facilities for change are really in the hands of of the politicians are n't they you know ? |
| 26 | No it 's not working I think it 's you know |
| 27 | review with them where they 're at , record how they 're doing , you know tra , I mean I ca n't tell them to do that , but actually ask them to spend five or ten minutes each session talking to different pupils and what they 've been doing and you know even if it 's a personal timetable some people wo n't get into it but it 's you know , trying to get them to be what are tutors are , you know , I 'd like them to do . |
| 28 | I mean it 's you know , it 's just to people in the film industry and obviously it has little interest reading it |
| 29 | That 's normal and that 's what Wendy has to learn to do or else it 's you know it 's it 's difficult for somebody else to if Ian did it he would have to get all the figures first . |
| 30 | It 's you know and my pride was getting a little bit dented that I 'd been selling market for years suddenly I was n't doing this . |