Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said when I looked at it was coming backwards . |
| 2 | and I 've we 've taken the the old settee down to Carrie 's and moved the two seater and the armchair down this end and they flew in tonight straight up on the sofa , I said to it 's gon na be tough for a week or so but they 've got ta get used to staying on the floor , I 'm not having them on the furniture all the time cos they just absolutely ruin it ! |
| 3 | It will refuse to stand still because the last time we got off it was punished ! |
| 4 | This was largely as a result of Eliot 's own initiative ; and what we knew of it was derived from the works of Jacques Maritain , which were largely the source , I suspect , of Eliot 's own knowledge . |
| 5 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 6 | The only way they dealt with it was to throw people down the punishment block . |
| 7 | A sacrifice of analytical rigour may not be that important if the concept which has been thereby given life is never used , and it is clear from Lord Greene M.R 's judgment in the Wednesbury case that he conceived of it being utilised only in the extreme ( and hypothetical ) instance of ‘ dismissal for red hair type of case . ’ |
| 8 | I did n't , I mean , I do n't like small the right brightly coloured or what , but it looked like it were coloured like this , like this kind of colouring . |
| 9 | Much of what he wrote for it was re-used in his highly influential Dictionnaire de musique ( 1768 ) . |