Example sentences of "it be [adv] [noun] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been only Ben he had seen , or had he been able to look out , however briefly , on the world of the future ; her world ? |
| 2 | I think it 's rather dandy he 's finished off , he 's put this white erm stuff you know what they squeeze from now . |
| 3 | Clare works for an estate agent so far up-market it 's mostly estates they deal in , not humble houses , no matter how extensive ; if it does n't boast a couple of salmon rivers , a few square miles of trees and a brace of hills , lochs or lakes , then they just are n't interested . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not money I want — it 's Ace Elliot . ’ |
| 5 | It 's not stars you see . |
| 6 | It 's not luck we want now . |
| 7 | But , it 's not Cassie I do n't think . |
| 8 | That , no it 's not Colin he 's been in it for ages now . |
| 9 | It 's a bit like being colour-blind , only it 's not colours I get mixed up , it 's objects . |
| 10 | Hold on , it 's not people who 've got spare money , it 's people who |
| 11 | but it was waste of time because he , he , he did n't know , he was n't Clifford , well that 's what he said to me , it 's not Clifford you know |
| 12 | We get on motorway , no it 's not bridge you get on motorway and we go , go up to Beverley I 'll ask Paul |
| 13 | ‘ I have a serious point , ’ said Dyson , ‘ and that is that nowadays it 's not excellence which leads to celebrity , but celebrity which leads to excellence . |
| 14 | It 's nearly Christmas I reckon . |
| 15 | Well it 's just excitement you know , she hardly does |
| 16 | But even if it 's just darkness I want that peace . |
| 17 | 'Cos , yeah , it 's just vegetables we keep because erm , or if my mother makes sort of a lot of curries or things . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's just background I need at the moment . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's also time I got down to thinking positively about this show . |
| 20 | And then I , well if it 's really income he needs , I thought he could look at an equities portfolio for the eighty thousand , say , forty thousand in er groceries and forty thousand in pharmaceutical . |
| 21 | Yeah how much effect it does have I do n't know because where but I think it 's it 's really basis you know it 's better to be safe than sorry . |
| 22 | Two Chinese teachers have just graduated from an international centre in Hebrew They say both China and Israel have ancient traditions , and it 's about time they got to know more about each other . |
| 23 | Oh good god , it 's about time they got their arses in gear and started doing something properly |
| 24 | It 's about time they brought someone like yourself in to sort it out — no offence meant to you , Mr Aplin , but Mr Eddy ‘ ere 's the best detective they 've got up at Scotland Yard , make no mistake about that . ’ |
| 25 | We , we , we said it 's about time they grew potatoes in that field |
| 26 | It 's a profession and it 's about time they started to act like professionals . ’ |
| 27 | Perhaps maybe a cut off time for when a meeting should finish , which I think we 'd all dearly love , maybe that very common in business , maybe it 's about time we put it into council life as well , so those of progress , not trying to make people feel guilty but trying to serve the people they represent . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's about time we asked Pam to dinner , ’ said Scarlet one evening . |
| 29 | It 's about time we had a pop star called Gordon again . |
| 30 | Alluding to the Prime Minister 's enthusiasm for charters , he said : ‘ It 's about time we had a charter for workers ’ rights . |