Example sentences of "[vb pp] it be [pron] " in BNC.

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1 How come it 's her idea ?
2 When her younger brother was being bullied it was she who leapt to his defence and up-ended his tormentor in a matter of seconds .
3 When he is caught it is his trial which is the next stage of the criminal justice system to attract media attention .
4 I wonder how he 's done it is it
5 Absolutely no interest in politics whatsoever you know all they 'd done it 's you know it 's sad to see things the way they are but it seems to be that with the world over at the moment so .
6 Do n't take it for granted it 's it stuff .
7 EDITOR : As we have always said it is YOUR newspaper , although not being prepared to put a name to letters [ even if the name is not for inclusion ] means authors can not collect the £25 Star Letter prize .
8 It had come out and I 'd said it 's what I felt at the minute .
9 ‘ Paul 's album has had great reviews , some of which have said it 's his best-ever album .
10 She had said it was her niece because the girl was young and had black hair and because who else but Nora Fanshawe could have been in that car with her parents ?
11 That stupid whore at the opera had said it was her sister , but Fedorov had known better .
12 Yuri had said it was her duty .
13 I 've let you play your games , you and Joseph , and I 've said it was nothing to me , it was enough that I was a painter .
14 Well there 's not a lot of point telling you la , if you 've seen it is there ?
15 Perhaps they had only lived in London because he had thought it was what she wanted .
16 Certain happenings in her body had stopped ; she had thought it was something to do with being married , or almost so , to Paul .
17 If she heard on the News that a man had been murdered here , she might have thought it was me .
18 They 'd heard this awful racket you see and they 'd thought it was me coming and falling or something on the stairs .
19 ‘ United gave him away and Mike Walker must have thought it was his lucky day .
20 Oh dear , and he 'd thought it was his own animal magnetism .
21 I mean , if I 'd got pregnant he might have thought it was his , that he 'd got better somehow .
22 I would have thought it was your duty to take law …
23 ‘ You know , I 've always thought it was your sense of humour that attracted Walter to you , Hilda . ’
24 This means that as a student who is being supervised it is you who have to be proactive rather than reactive .
25 Now , am I right in saying that there has been some controversy in the past about hormone replace , let's call it H R T , it 's shorter , that er that not everyone 's convinced it 's it 's it 's a good idea , that there are maybe some negative side effects .
26 the only place I 've not got it is my abdomen and my chest .
27 But you were n't aware she 'd , he 'd got it was you ?
28 I 'm told it 's nothing personal ( it 's never anything personal in racing — a fellow who had just put me through the wing at Naas visited me in hospital to tell me it was nothing personal ) , but the end result is the same .
29 The driver stopped to complain but was told it was his own fault — if he had been on time the ball would have missed .
30 Called It 's Their Home , the system has been produced by Convergent Communications .
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