Example sentences of "[vb past] it be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | George moved to stand on my foot just as Katy discovered a pound coin and Christopher yelled it was his . |
| 32 | But this time I decided it 's what I want to do and bugger it . |
| 33 | I decided it was something I 'd eaten and went back to sleep . ’ |
| 34 | He would be a world-champion tiddly-winks player too if he ever decided it was something worth taking up . |
| 35 | The tabloid newspapers decided it was their duty to reveal that Gatting had invited a barmaid to his hotel room during the Test match , and that he and other players had taken part in ‘ sex romps ’ with girls from the hotel ; though how the newshounds , scrabbling around in the bushes outside , could see what was happening in the rooms was not really clear . |
| 36 | Having been on the receiving end of a whole host of visits over the past couple of years , we decided it was our turn to get out and about and took advantage of a kind offer by local brewers , of Abingdon , for a guided tour of the brewery . |
| 37 | With the situation now rapidly approaching a critical point , on April 13th. , Richard Baxter decided it was his duty to go to London and throw the weight of his own influence behind moves for the restoration of Charles II to the throne of England . |
| 38 | Clerval now decided it was his turn to be unpleasant . |
| 39 | Now er w w with every respect , to say that he survived it is something of a crass statement , because I remember reading about him thinking is n't this country getting good that we can have a black guardsman , and I remember my own disappointment when I read that he had to leave the regiment . |
| 40 | Henry confessed it was something that had n't crossed his mind before . |
| 41 | lost it is my boobs . |
| 42 | In fact when I er er periods started it was them that told me all about it not me mother and did n't never think then about st er sex or anything , not a thing , I was as innocent as day was born when I was eighteen . |
| 43 | That meant it was mine for keeps . |
| 44 | He came out of the library when he saw it was me , shook my hand and said ‘ Terrible thing , terrible thing ’ a few times , while Beethoven sounded loudly from the opened library door and his wife tutted and tried to smooth his errant hair . |
| 45 | Meg had heard of him , and Caro saw it was what she wanted to hear . |
| 46 | She did n't know how long she lay there , but when the door opened she started , then relaxed as she saw it was her grandmother . |
| 47 | She saw it was herself , there on the canvas ; in fact it was so much herself that she could not believe that she could be both people , one here on the studio floor and one sitting there clasping her knees , her eyes lost in faraway visions , her white feet on wet black rocks against which little waves were breaking in plumes of spray . |
| 48 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 49 | After the war opinion was more fluid and open on political grounds the tariff issue had been dead for years and I felt it was one which would pull the party together , including the Lloyd George malcontents . |
| 50 | " My husband just crumbled when I felt it was me that needed to crumble and somebody to help me . |
| 51 | For all his apparent virility , she felt it was he who should have been Harry 's mother . |
| 52 | He felt it was his duty to protect the girl if her claims against her father were right and just not a 1 5-year-old girl 's fantasies ’ . |
| 53 | ‘ When I discovered I was pregnant , it was at a time when I was very manic about the group , I felt it was my mission . |
| 54 | I felt it was my due . |
| 55 | I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so . |
| 56 | We felt it was our duty to try and bring Frank back to himself . |
| 57 | ‘ I gathered it was you who had a previous acquaintance with him . ’ |
| 58 | If she hurt it was her own fault . |
| 59 | Mercer Lorrimore was over in England at that time , and stayed and went racing at Newmarket in July , but the Jockey Club found him grimmer than his usual self and understood it was something to do with his son , although he did n't say what . |
| 60 | But he had it and he gave us food and wine out of it so we understood it was his . |