Example sentences of "[subord] it be [pron] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it was my health I was considering , and no one else 's , it was still difficult to step out on my own and leap the bounds of convention . |
| 2 | But as you said if it is your responsibility you 'll have to do it all yourself , there are lots of resources and lots of other people who can actually help you out who have the knowledge and you can use because you can use it as a development tool ca n't you for some of your members of the section to give them some training expertise . |
| 3 | If it is your mother-in-law who has come to live with you , even greater efforts will usually be required on both sides if there is to be peaceful co-existence , for this is always a challenging relationship ( there are not too many Ruths and Naomis around ) . |
| 4 | A more extreme tactic is to start addressing them in similar vein — using ‘ my dear ’ or something worse back ( at a seminar I attended , ‘ baby ’ was suggested … but if it 's your boss you 're dealing with you may need to decide whether your job 's worth it ) . |
| 5 | ‘ If it 's my daughter I want to see her now , I do n't want to wait . ’ |
| 6 | He might be directly responsible for taking away her pleasure in singing — though that would surely be only a temporary aberration on her part — but she could only hold him to account for her loneliness if it was his company she was missing . |
| 7 | If it was your picture I 've torn up . |
| 8 | Her breast felt hollow , as if it were her heart she had buried ; but she could move and speak , still . |
| 9 | He glared at her , as if it were her fault she could n't remember . |
| 10 | He smiled — the unknown , rare smile , as if it were his wife he was going to meet — and , lifting his glittering sword , thrust it upwards and forwards . |
| 11 | Alternatively Vox could of course use a full width string tree on the headstock side of the nut , but if it were my decision I 'd opt for altering the machinehead ; it 's a lot neater and keeps the headstock looking authentic . |
| 12 | Cos it 's your birthday you get , get an extra one , that 's it . |
| 13 | Just cos it 's your birthday I might as well give you one I suppose |
| 14 | No I thought , cos I , I remember reading erm I think it 's her father who owns one of the bookshops in Woodbridge and he had this book on display , you know he sort of erm advertised it if you like and it 's , it 's properly published and everything but he had it as a a book available in his store and there was an advert in the Anglian about it , and I remember reading that she said er that he said er cos it was his daughter who had the child , that it totally knocked them for six . |
| 15 | ‘ It is absurd to talk about a fourth Reich , because it is us Germans who are today leading the way in ceding national sovereignty to European institutions ’ , he said . |
| 16 | and then I got in a muddle and I was so tired I was , because it 's my eyes you see |
| 17 | Just because it 's your birthday I 'll let you get away with it . |
| 18 | ‘ Richard looks so proud and handsome , ’ she related , and when it was said , it came from the heart , because it was what Tilly herself saw , the man whom Elizabeth had never stopped loving , and the man who had captured her own heart . |
| 19 | So he said choice because it was his property they contacted him but he said what he 's done is though right there is n't anywhere near that amount ! |
| 20 | About the only decent argument I 've heard on this , I have to say that because it was my daughter who advanced it , about the only decent argument I have heard is the one about badger baiting where she said to me but badger baiting is not allowed on your land and that is the point precisely that Mr made , it is not allowed because that is the law of the land and that is where decisions about the permission or otherwise of fox hunting should be made . |
| 21 | ‘ Well then , since it was my fault we missed the train again , it 'd better be me who does the talkin' when we get there . |
| 22 | It is also about the health service treatment of Mr. Thorpe , since it was his doctors who approached me , and his wish , not mine , which has put the matter into the public domain . |
| 23 | I 'd been meaning to do it for days and I keep asking myself whether it was my fault her killer got in . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ When it 's her birthday she only gets holy pictures and holy water fonts , ’ Benny reported . |
| 25 | Some of them do n't look too good , not after they been burned like that , specially when it 's their features what have gone . |
| 26 | er next week is your let letters N and P for the raffle table , for the benefit of new members you go alphabetically through , you know , from A to Z and when it 's your turn we 'd like you to bring something for the raffle table |
| 27 | When it 's your child you 've watched fight for her life and then you get to the stage where she 's reached one . |
| 28 | No yeah when it is our product it 's a D five if it 's , it 's D six if it 's . |
| 29 | When it was my turn I could n't think of anything to say . |
| 30 | Each one of us was beckoned over to have a go when it was my turn I rushed over and put the tanks on I then submerged It felt strange breathing under water like a fish the bubble emitted from the regulator trickled up the side of my face . |