Example sentences of "[subord] it be your " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So it 's your birthday tomorrow , ’ said Lucy . |
| 2 | I was almost nodding off when Victor , sitting beside me , spoke , the noise of the train turning his voice into a whisper : ‘ So it 's your turn tonight . ’ |
| 3 | OK , so it 's your business to flog copies and you 've got a ‘ large and loyal readership ’ anyway , but is this peroxide pin-up above being challenged ? |
| 4 | ‘ So it 's your business now , is it ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ So it 's your sixth birthday tomorrow then . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , my dear , ’ he said , pressing his knees against Amaranth 's , ‘ so it 's your intention to stand for Parliament ? ’ |
| 7 | Well she got it last time so it 's your turn . |
| 8 | ‘ So it was your idea ? |
| 9 | But what if it is your screaming ? |
| 10 | If it is your passion that is in the driving seat , ask yourself whether you care what effect the actions of your free will will have upon others or upon yourself . |
| 11 | If it is your own mother who is bereaved , the fact that you are grieving too will probably help you both a good deal , as you will be able to share your sorrow and comfort each other ; though in some families shared sorrow occasionally leads to friction and unreasonable apportioning of blame for trivial or imagined omissions in the course of the terminal illness of the deceased . |
| 12 | If it is your mother-in-law who has come to live with you , even greater efforts will usually be required on both sides if there is to be peaceful co-existence , for this is always a challenging relationship ( there are not too many Ruths and Naomis around ) . |
| 13 | If it is your intention to add a fully scripted commentary , you will need to work out the timings . |
| 14 | If it is your intention to set a cat among the pigeons or let loose an eagle in the dovecote , you do n't send a postcard in advance announcing your intentions . ’ |
| 15 | And if it is your , your view that y y your , your organs may be used in , in advance , and if that 's known to your relatives it 'll make a very very difficult time for them a great deal less difficult than it might have been otherwise . |
| 16 | Sir , if it is your wish , I will now open the case . |
| 17 | ‘ But if it is your wish to die , then by all means let us set to . |
| 18 | ‘ If it is your wandering corporal in hospital , what were you planning ? ’ she asked . |
| 19 | If it is your home as well ‘ disruption ’ is almost a euphemism ! |
| 20 | But as you said if it is your responsibility you 'll have to do it all yourself , there are lots of resources and lots of other people who can actually help you out who have the knowledge and you can use because you can use it as a development tool ca n't you for some of your members of the section to give them some training expertise . |
| 21 | This is particularly true if it is your first investment . |
| 22 | If it is your first work of fiction of any great length , I think you are doing the right thing putting it forward for appraisal by the Eastern Arts Board , you are lucky in your part of the country to have this . |
| 23 | If it is your first work of fiction , you should also look at it as part of your groundwork which although it may never see the light of publication , is of great benefit to you as a writer . |
| 24 | You do n't provide warnings if it is your intention to kill . ’ |
| 25 | Cos I mean to say , even if it is your father |
| 26 | Most doctors will tell you it 's best to have your baby in hospital , especially if it 's your first child . |
| 27 | If it 's your birthday then I write a song or an ode and you share it with the whole restaurant — everyone joins in . ’ |
| 28 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 29 | A more extreme tactic is to start addressing them in similar vein — using ‘ my dear ’ or something worse back ( at a seminar I attended , ‘ baby ’ was suggested … but if it 's your boss you 're dealing with you may need to decide whether your job 's worth it ) . |
| 30 | A HUNDRED in your first innings of the season is sweet , and especially so if it 's your team 's third one-day match , and you 've been left out of the first two because you are not regarded as a one-day player . |