Example sentences of "[adv] it be [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
| 2 | over a number of years I was subjected to domestic violence , erm , the last time I left I did n't report it right away , morally it was my son , I did n't want to drag him through the court , but when I did I was told no , your too late , you will just be seen as a woman scorned , your trying to get revenge , and that 's it , no , I 'm not taking a statement . |
| 3 | Perhaps it 's his ideal part , though at times too low . |
| 4 | I do n't know whether , whether it sort of erm rang any bells with you but normally if you 're in a house people do n't offer you dri they usually say would you like a cup of tea or a cup of coffee and I just wondered , perhaps it 's my suspicious nature , whether this guy 's got a drink problem |
| 5 | well er , I 'm sorry to interrupt you , I 'm sorry I do apologise , perhaps it 's my tooth , it 's making me even more testier than usual , erm , I , I thought your case was that these agreements were void |
| 6 | Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue . |
| 7 | Perhaps it 's your age |
| 8 | She said oh I 'm ever so sorry , she said perhaps it 's your mother , I said no I said she was alive and kicking as well the last time I saw her so |
| 9 | Surprisingly , to this reader/joke-writer at least , Chiaro find this kind of joke " irritating , rather than funny " ; perhaps it is her example : Knock knock . |
| 10 | Perhaps it is his nature you know |
| 11 | Perhaps it is your childhood days that haunt your imagination and you would like to set a book some twenty , thirty or forty years back . |
| 12 | " Perhaps it is our fault that we keep them so much in idleness ? |
| 13 | On the face of it , the shooting looked like another bloody event in Irish history , but perhaps it was its timing — on the same day that the government had sat for the first time — that intrigued him , or perhaps it was Joe 's words : that his father and the men like him had died for Ireland were being betrayed . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was her choice of material , or the fact that it was a big theatre . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was her over-active imagination , or maybe she was getting used to that strange bland face and the enormous overhanging whale-like brow , but she felt she saw fear flit across it , momentarily . |
| 16 | I 'd only met her once , so perhaps it was her way of telling me or him or someone else that she was ‘ in the know ’ . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was her husband 's doing . ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps it was her soft , drawling voice or the fact that , no matter how interesting the topic of your conversation , you would inevitably see her smothering amiable yawns as you talked ; you would see the muscles of her jaw tighten and the tears start from her eyes as she tried to repress them . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was her imagination , she thought . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was her artistic temperament — it was impossible to know for certain . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was her own pride reawakening after all these weeks which prompted her to defy Luke 's distaste , albeit only after she was sure he was asleep , moving up close to his back again , lifting an arm and curving it loosely over the side of his body . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was her way of taking revenge . |
| 23 | Perhaps it was their very greatness that made her so — one could n't be noble all the time . |
| 24 | perhaps it was his glance at Meg Dennison 's ravaged face . |
| 25 | Perhaps it was his manners and his words . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was his puritanical upbringing . |
| 27 | Or perhaps it was his imagination . |
| 28 | Perhaps it was his mother 's death ? |
| 29 | Perhaps it was his room … |
| 30 | Or perhaps it was his fingers that were having that effect . |