Example sentences of "be [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 2 | He talks about his ileostomy ( a permanent colostomy ) with the lack of embarrassment that only someone who has been through it can . |
| 3 | I 've been through it all . |
| 4 | You ca n't forget if you 've been through it , you ca n't . ’ |
| 5 | But Mr Bond has been through it all before . |
| 6 | He 'd never been through it since the time Barry had locked him in . |
| 7 | Then , stretching a point , he declared : ‘ Now I 've been through it all , I have to admit I had a ball . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Cropper will have been through it with a toothcomb . ’ |
| 9 | Having just returned from Scotland 's weekend squad sessions at St. Andrews , two tough dollops of over three hours each , he was feeling the effects , but clearly revels in his involvement : ‘ National sessions are at a higher intensity than those at club and district level in that you are working with very good and experienced players but it is just so enjoyable setting hard challenges whilst you are learning so much from players who have been through it all so often before ’ . |
| 10 | She has been through it all with such tremendous courage and coolness . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been through it and I do n't want them to have to go through it because it can be stopped . |
| 12 | He has been through it , seen it and done it all before . ’ |
| 13 | We 've all been through it and we know what pain 's about . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I talked about it with friends and they always knew someone who had been through it who were twice the men they were before , ’ said Mr Morton , 59 . |
| 15 | Larry has been through it all . |
| 16 | He had been through it before and had already told the Captain he was sure that was the car , though he had n't looked at the driver and front passenger , having been distracted by the map and by watching the traffic coming from all three directions because he wanted to cross over . |
| 17 | If you 've been through it , it 's in the bank . |
| 18 | I 'm actually also hoping to get , someone who was erm concerned at the campaign to come to the meeting , cos I think it would be very useful to have someone who 's been through it and to say how , how they tackled it , so I think it should an interesting meeting , hopefully we 'll get a few , you know interesting people to come along and we can spend from that meeting campaign . |
| 19 | Advice , prospectuses , fact sheets , helplines , career and benefits experts , course counsellors , businesswomen , and mature returners and learners , who had been through it all and come out stronger , were all there to persuade women learning is for life and it 's never too late or too hard to start . |
| 20 | When your parents die , it 's a bit like having a baby — there 's the element of wondering why people who 've been through it did n't tell you what it was really like . |
| 21 | He 's been through it all , has ol' Slow Hand — alcoholism and drug addiction , and most recently the tragic death of his only child — but as this record amply demonstrates , he 's still capable of mixing it when called upon to do so . |
| 22 | The interior was probably quite well furnished in the ordinary way , but right now it looked as if a tornado had been through it . |
| 23 | We 've all been through it . |
| 24 | Every mother 's been through it — a toddler screaming on the supermarket floor . |
| 25 | He 's been through it poor bleeder . |
| 26 | But I 've been through it a dozen , twenty times already . |
| 27 | You 're not alone in your embarrassment — most of your friends will know exactly what you 're going through , having been through it themselves when their kids were the same age . |
| 28 | If we do , we now have a model and can say that he and his family have been through it and have borne it with great fortitude , resilience and courage — as has been said , only through their deep religious faith — and that that has been a great lesson to us all . |
| 29 | Er and then finally on Mr Thomas , er Mr Thomas erm , a number of occasions has er has referred to these sites in and around the er er urban area , if Mr Thomas would like us to show us a list of those sites , er we will look at them , we 've been through it on a number of occasions , square inch almost by square inch , but I 'd be very interested for Mr Thomas 's list of sites in and around the urban area . |
| 30 | We 've been through it all together |