Example sentences of "he [verb] it be [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man from Dunkeld will come today or tomorrow — if he thinks it is worth his trouble . ’ |
| 2 | He found it was at its worst in the late evenings when he sat alone in Fern Cottage . |
| 3 | There was such stillness in him that when he moved it was like something dead had come alive again . |
| 4 | Now lets just close with those words of of Peter , on the day of pentecost , it 's not for other just , he says it 's for you , it 's for your children , and it 's to as many as there are far off , right down through the centuries , as many as the Lord our God shall call . |
| 5 | He says it was for their funeral but now they 've got nothing . |
| 6 | I even know , thanks to Montesquieu , that one may be a Persian , but as for Man , I declare that I have never met him in my life ; if he exists it is without my knowledge.1 |
| 7 | Sometimes he thought it was of his own making : he was unaccustomed to working closely with women and this one was still young and attractive which made him self-conscious . |
| 8 | He knew it was of his own making but that was not useful knowledge because he could not unmake it . |
| 9 | From the handwriting he knew it was from his mother , and he ran to his workshop to read it . |
| 10 | He said yeah , he said it 's in my bedroom . |
| 11 | Cos I 've already sussed Jim out anyway cos he said it was on my contract saying I had to do the four hours . |
| 12 | No , we asked him and he said it was with his work mates |
| 13 | He said it was for him the perfect realization of Sibelius as a passionate but anti-sensual composer . |
| 14 | But he said it was for you and gave me the phone back to take a message . |