Example sentences of "it be something " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or had it been something more subtle , a pledge that , despite everything , they were allies , that he understood her priorities and would make them his ? |
| 2 | Er had it been something that you 'd long sought after you know , like like in the mines where it had been an issue for some years ? |
| 3 | Let it be something which is in complete contrast to the way you normally spend your time . |
| 4 | If their special property is not to be found in their trigger features , might it be something about their projective zones ? |
| 5 | Work back in your mind to the possible source of any abrasion — could it be something with a rough edge in the pond , or are there ectoparasites ( ie Argulus ) breaking the skin ? |
| 6 | Would n't it be something if you both knew that ? ’ |
| 7 | And preferably , let it be something concerning himself . ’ |
| 8 | This piece of advice might suggest that his grasp of the ‘ new psychology ’ was still at the rudimentary stage , since he speaks of a neurosis as if it were something avoidable . |
| 9 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |
| 10 | One nice Tory gentleman tells me ‘ I 've done this for all the parties in my time , you know , ’ as if it were something to be proud of . |
| 11 | I do not mean that there is not a valid distinction to be drawn between sense and sentence ; only that it is a mistake to think of the sense of an utterance as though it were something existing alongside the utterance but in the ethereal medium of the mind . |
| 12 | But it was n't actually , it were something else , and people were finding that their goods were repossessed because they could n't keep up the payments . |
| 13 | Seeing how the boy stared at Hammond 's hand a moment before tentatively offering his own , how he studied the meeting of their hands , as if it were something wholly new to him , Spatz understood . |
| 14 | A gang of black workers wearing white loincloths faced the camera gravely , looking as if it were something they might be given to eat . |
| 15 | They also avoid the division of parts , as if it were something of extreme difficulty , and forget altogether that it is by no means necessary to have all the voices singing all the time . |
| 16 | Caro had noticed before the way her mother always avoided referring to the accident and Caro 's time in hospital , almost as if it were something obscene . |
| 17 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 18 | Hell , everybody I know 's done something like that at some time or another but that does n't make them a murderer ; I think McDunn 's crazy but I ca n't tell him that because , if he 's wrong about that and I 'm wrong about it being something to do with those guys who died in the Lake District a few years ago , then there 's only one suspect left and that 's me . |
| 19 | My audition for Leeds was a sight reading job and it 's something that you get from drama training — work that helps you cope with the sight reading at an audition — yes . |
| 20 | And I 'm not upset , it 's something else … ’ |
| 21 | It 's something which Delahunty finds particularly helpful . |
| 22 | It 's something I 've always had an affection for . |
| 23 | ‘ It is a risk , but it 's something I have wanted to do for some time and I believe it is feasible . |
| 24 | So it 's something of a treat that the Discovery has its first British airing at Motorfair . |
| 25 | It 's something that we regard as an interesting development . |
| 26 | I ca n't say it 's something I 've found easy to do . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's something to do with converting old houses . |
| 28 | It 's something I can do on long , boring evenings and gives the recipients a lot of pleasure . |
| 29 | If it 's something that needs doing every day , keep it up for a week . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's something I always wanted to do . ’ |