Example sentences of "[vb past] it be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | funny it 's like cos they had the keyboard and that sort of rap beat it 's like , and all my kebabs are in salad cream , rap it on , stack it on , that 's my scene , gim me some kebab kebab gim me ages , wicked tune , I mean all these words |
| 2 | The problem SAVE faced was that it had been so disfigured by later alterations that many people doubted it was of sufficient interest to merit saving . |
| 3 | There was such stillness in him that when he moved it was like something dead had come alive again . |
| 4 | Right now , I mentioned it was in aid of charity , how , how are you going on , on the charity side of things ? |
| 5 | He found it was at its worst in the late evenings when he sat alone in Fern Cottage . |
| 6 | Going absently to see what it was , Greg found it was from Somerset House . |
| 7 | I looked at my watch and found it was after eleven o'clock , which meant nothing really . |
| 8 | When I painted it was for myself , I could afford the luxury of spending two years on a painting ; I did n't have to worry about whether anyone was interested in it or not or whether I would exhibit it in a commercial gallery or whether it would be sold . |
| 9 | When she woke it was to the incessant chattering of the wheels against the rails and Emily thought she would never arrive at her destination . |
| 10 | They 're gunned up and fired up and told it 's for real . |
| 11 | I mean , I can remember seeing an interview with er , John Geilgud and he 'd he 'd done Hamlet many years ago and er but he said he 'd it was in a totally different way you know , different |
| 12 | What provoked it was in part the ecclesiastical reform movement . |
| 13 | The first time they came it was for ‘ Bob-a-job ’ week , but now they just come . |
| 14 | But when one came it was on the break , Tovalieri getting Bari 's third . |
| 15 | When the orchestra reassembled it was at full strength and they played Richard Strauss 's Tone Poem ‘ Heldenleben ’ more or less from start to finish . |
| 16 | The Cherry and Whites are used to winning against Nottingham … last time they played it was for league points in the first division … |
| 17 | It had a Birmingham postmark and was addressed to ‘ Robert Hilton ’ and she assumed it was for her son . |
| 18 | At a later interview he was asked for what the Nobel had been awarded ; Eliot replied that he assumed it was for " the entire corpus " and the reporter asked , " When did you publish that ? " |
| 19 | Jaguar plunged 46p to 685p as General Motors confirmed it is in talks that could result in it taking a minority stake . |
| 20 | Mr Graham confirmed it was in order for the NGC to offer alternative routes for the inquiry 's consideration . |
| 21 | I went to a local DIY store and picked out a can of own-brand paint which stated it was for exterior decoration . |
| 22 | Subsequent analysis of a sample drilled from the interior showed it was of bronze with no zinc present at all . |
| 23 | And the area code showed it was in Dusseldorf — 70 miles away . |
| 24 | McGregor , who had been approached by a worried neighbour , admitted making use of the computer but claimed it was on legitimate police business . |
| 25 | Yeah , well she reckoned it 's on it lovely actually . |
| 26 | ‘ She reckoned it was like a department store , do n't you remember ? ’ |
| 27 | Reckoned it was in the superstructure below somewhere . ’ |
| 28 | The judge was impressed but reckoned it was in the wrong section . |
| 29 | When he arrived it was at a very particular time of day . |
| 30 | There was no chimney attached to it ; so she guessed it was for paraffin oil . |