Example sentences of "[vb past] it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | funny it 's like cos they had the keyboard and that sort of rap beat it 's like , and all my kebabs are in salad cream , rap it on , stack it on , that 's my scene , gim me some kebab kebab gim me ages , wicked tune , I mean all these words |
| 2 | But once I have the thing and make it available , and say here is the gift that I promised it 's yours , it 's available , then , all you have to do is come and take it . |
| 3 | ‘ But ye promised it was the last , ’ Winnie said , the drunken Rab ; and she could have pulled her hair and needed a pee but was frightened to leave Rab alone . |
| 4 | The problem SAVE faced was that it had been so disfigured by later alterations that many people doubted it was of sufficient interest to merit saving . |
| 5 | She laughed at the very thought of it because she doubted it was possible because her conception of God was too small . |
| 6 | There was nothing wrong with it except that she doubted it was true and was certain Holly was showing it to Maureen for approval . |
| 7 | Reacting to the killings , the Nobel Peace Prize winner , Desmond Tutu , the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town , said it demonstrated it was time for all South Africa 's politicians ‘ for goodness sake to get off your butts and get on with the business of getting a new constitution for this country . |
| 8 | ‘ I said if we drew it was not the end of the world . |
| 9 | Whatever created it is an aberration . |
| 10 | ‘ His best attempt at negotiating the distance between admiration of the poetry and dislike for the individual who created it is this metaphor , in his introduction : ‘ When he found his authentic voice in the late 1940s , the beautiful flowers of his poetry were already growing on long stalks out of pretty dismal ground ’ — a botanical conceit designed to leave Larkin soiled , but the poetry ready for picking . |
| 11 | At this point , the DC is in state CREATED and the user who created it is said to be the ‘ associated user ’ . |
| 12 | The man who designed it is confident they 've got it right . |
| 13 | And also you 'll like it because the cardinal who designed it was a practical joker and built in all sorts of extremely infantile jokes so that he could spray water onto his innocent friends while they were eating their dinner or trying to watch little masques . |
| 14 | In many of the societies described it is found that the collective is emphasized rather than the individual . |
| 15 | However , as the contractor is free to time the work within the contract period it wold be illogical for the contractor to be able to claim the cost and time effects of an influence which might have caused further delay but did not in fact do so ; and in the situation described it is likely that the first cause rules . |
| 16 | Yet the contrast that presented itself to me as Edward Thomas described it was dramatic : down in the valley less than half a mile away was a modern colliery with all the latest gadgetry of modern technology , while the hill farmers ( at least some of them ) were still in the Middle Ages — even earlier , as far as their material culture was concerned . |
| 17 | Is he aware that the right hon. Gentleman who so described it was none other than the Leader of the Opposition ? |
| 18 | Clearly visible as an up-lighter caught it was the strong profile of Martin Ward , with the Dyson family a few steps behind . |
| 19 | They giggled with bagels in a park strewn with dog-shit and broken bottles , and pretended it was New York . |
| 20 | I pretended it was Annie 's hair we was putting on the tree , and I called her a little angel , but she got upset about that , so I stopped . |
| 21 | Nutty remembered supposing that Nails would hit a bullseye every time if he pretended it was a policeman he was shooting at , and wondered how she was going to reconcile that . |
| 22 | Naturally most of the boys opted for ‘ the strip ’ and each time the innuendo was made the girls pretended it was terribly witty and original , If a little naughty , just as they did when they were asked for the twentieth time if perhaps they might be the prize . |
| 23 | Though he never idealised it or pretended it was anything but ‘ the rude rags of nature ’ , he saw things in it to which Crabbe was completely blind or hostile , and he felt their loss when change and ‘ improvement ’ came : |
| 24 | Stella pretended it was Uncle Vernon in the coffin . |
| 25 | My father just pretended it was n't happening . |
| 26 | I wondered what would happen if I ignored the call or pretended it was n't me , but I had a strong feeling that they knew it was me . |
| 27 | She pretended not to see the light in his eyes ; she pretended it was the wind going up her skirt that made her suddenly shiver with apprehension . |
| 28 | Yes … ! ’ and felt him strip , the feel of his hair-roughened skin against hers driving her wild because now he was so real , so completely real , and so completely hers as they moved together naked , and she took the physical desire he expressed for her and pretended it was love , because it was the deepest display of emotion he had ever shown her . |
| 29 | Until yesterday , No 10 maintained it was ‘ impossible to tell ’ whether the holiday was in line with official rules governing Ministers and gifts . |
| 30 | Canada and Australia maintained it was unwise to observe elections only in south Korea ; France and Syria abstained . |