Example sentences of "[adv] it be [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it was she who was shaking and crying , |
| 2 | much it 's it 's far |
| 3 | And basically it 's it 's the actual thrust of overseas competition basically . |
| 4 | I I heard the other day what I thought was one of the best advertisements not to have an animal for Christmas very emotive , er I think it was for the R S P C A , and I I 'm told I do n't think you 've heard it but it b basically it 's it 's er the sound of a er well it 's a human pretending to be a dog really and saying you know , Well this is nice my my er family have taken me to the vet , I did n't think I was ill but never mind . |
| 5 | Well , he was talk we were talking about the rave and th what was wrong with it and he was saying basically it was they 'd got four DJs who were all techno and they were like brilliant ! |
| 6 | ‘ Then perhaps it 's me that should be mistrusting you , ’ I said . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps it 's him you keep hearing . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps they had something else in mind , perhaps it 's her . |
| 9 | And I think perhaps it 's it lacks a bit of importance , you know , it has n't got the strength erm to stand up on its own . |
| 10 | Perhaps it is us who have made them what they are ? " |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps it was him . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps it was her . |
| 13 | So , perhaps it was her or and er tend to like her but but I think he , what he says he means . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was he who was truly destroying this place . |
| 15 | Or maybe utterly sane , perhaps it was he who could not come to grips with the topsy-turvy world they all now lived in , Edward thought . |
| 16 | Well perhaps it was it was a long I do n't know , but it did and I 'll show you on the video if you want |
| 17 | If someone a obviously it 's it 's what I 'm asking is hypothetical anyway because I mean the flats are coming down so no one new can move in , but say you actually if if it was possible for other people to move into these flats and you knew someone and they said erm , You know I 'm thinking of moving into Green flats , what would you say ? |
| 18 | Aye well we 've all spoken about it before and I mean yo When we were in hospital we spoke together about it and er obviously it 's it 's it 's something you that wo n't really be able to tell unless you give it try . |
| 19 | Normally there 's load down stairs but obviously it 's it works on the basis erm |
| 20 | Obviously it was she who must speak first . |
| 21 | Well I 'm sure that 's why I 've put that there look , that 's the same colour pen no one else is got anything so it is them . |
| 22 | So it is I I I wo n't predict you know how it 's gon na be too much you know because obviously er it 's just the day to day living is quite difficult for most people have to work and cope with their families and you know so there 's not going to be er that the fundamentals are are not gon na be changed and obviously people are gon na be very broke for a long time because in a strike situation you probably do n't ever really quite recover . |
| 23 | So it is you , then . |
| 24 | So it is It 's a marvellous thing really , the R N L I . |
| 25 | Right , let's , this is hypothetical so it is it 's the first thing that comes to my head but it may I would n't take it as s take groups , for example , you just got the handout on groups and you get a question coming up that might say erm , I do n't know , how could groups how could a w what does our understanding of groups owe to speech therapy ? |
| 26 | I lie so close to the earth that I am part of it and so it is mine . |
| 27 | So it 's me against the world — not to mention the wave . ’ |
| 28 | Cos they they they 've obviously not made sense to realise that , a dog might run out in front of you but you 're doing sixty in a in a sixty zone and forty in a forty zone you 're gon na have to slam on your anyway so it 's them gon na be stupid , it 's not you being |
| 29 | Erm so it 's they 're really interested in our use of language . |
| 30 | So it 's we , we 've already , that , that already has changed significantly . |