Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it be [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken a week to obtain , and had Hapsburg officialdom realized that it was for him rather than Aranyos it would have been unlikely to arrive before the end of the war . |
| 2 | In this way the child learnt that it was in his own interest for the experimenter to go to the empty box . |
| 3 | ‘ I asked if it was for himself or his mother . |
| 4 | Pogo never refused any request she made if it was in his power to satisfy her . |
| 5 | Saddam Hussein threatened that it was in his power to sponsor terrorist attacks on the countries ranged against him . |
| 6 | The wisdom of the ancient world saw that it is in our points of greatest personal weakness that we are most defensive , and where we compensate addictively in our emotions . |
| 7 | Perhaps just because she was Bob 's fiancée — but Tessa felt that it was for herself as well . |
| 8 | The neighbour we sent it to died while it was on its way . |
| 9 | But Caspar , belatedly gallant , said that it was for him to lead the way . |
| 10 | They said that it was of himself and that the parcel contained a gun which had been taken to pieces so that he could carry it inconspicuously . |
| 11 | They said that it was in everyone 's interest that he got caught . |
| 12 | The Saturday Review , presumably from the pen of Hope , said that it was in what it called the ‘ modern palatial Gothic ’ style : |
| 13 | Woolwich paid because it calculated that it was in its commercial interest to do so . |
| 14 | By his order dated 14 July 1992 the judge granted a declaration that it was not unlawful for the first or third defendants to administer a blood transfusion to T. if they considered that it was in her best interests to do so . |