Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A HAIRDRESSER who asked a teenage employee to push her buttocks against a letterbox so he could fondle them through it was ordered to pay her £1,000 for sexual harassment yesterday . |
| 2 | Nothing about it is taught at school and we are criticised abroad for not repenting of the war . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ In fact , if we 're busy at work I can see that having to try and explain all the complexities of the London Metal Exchange to someone who knows absolutely nothing about it is going to be a real drag . ’ |
| 4 | But it seems to me like it 's passing the buck a bit in the way they 're just sort of taking responsibility |
| 5 | Nothing like it was seen in Roundhay in 1959 . |
| 6 | ‘ Yeah , I noticed it , Eva , but none of it 's sloshing against our house . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Take this to the crossroads , ’ she said , dropping the ball of cow-dung into his cupped hands , ‘ and bury it so none of it 's left showing . ’ |
| 8 | Well he did n't reveal any of this new material and none of it was revealed in open court . |
| 9 | She said it all , knowing perfectly well none of it was heard , and then she slept a little . |
| 10 | None of it was made any easier by the fact that all the songs were in complicated French and to be able to sing them it helped to understand them . |
| 11 | Yes , an and what really upset the erm the , the members of the scheme and the pensioners was the fact that the money was going to actually erm fund the redundancy per programme er for the business and was going to the benefit of the employees and none of it was going to the actual pensioners . |
| 12 | Jenna could not help feeling hostility , but none of it was directed at Marguerite . |
| 13 | None of it was coming from Alain . |
| 14 | Tracking and balancing it , none of it were done . |
| 15 | But there , something about it was unnerving , yet fascinating ; I could n't believe it was happening . |
| 16 | It 's something like it 's called . |
| 17 | It 's like an adventure playground but everything in it is padded with foam to provide a safe learning environment . |
| 18 | The whole idea of this experiment , as I see it , is that everyone in it is going to decide , and carry out , much of what is now decided by experts and provided by big organisations . |
| 19 | This is what we 've achieved by extreme centralization and extreme specialization — a society so complex that everyone in it is winning the race . |
| 20 | Warning MacQuillan against his folly was one thing , killing him to save him from it was going too far . |
| 21 | Well they did n't know and they to it were towing Julie 's car and the tow belt snapped , and of course when it jerked this car forward it cut the petrol off . |
| 22 | I mean you 're not really , you put it through it 's paces to see if it would do what we wanted it to do but that 's not actually . |
| 23 | To turn it into It 's called what ? |
| 24 | I think it might need burning off because if you leave it on it 's gon na be a bit oddish ! |
| 25 | Having said that , the hon. and learned Member for Burton makes a good point : it would offend against the views of ordinary persons and would be a crying sense of injustice if people who were not party to the aggravated crime and who had sought to distance themselves from it were found guilty because the balance of probabilities had fallen on them to prove their innocence . |
| 26 | Before doing so I should say by way of parenthesis that I have totally bypassed the colleagues who are currently members of the Government , several of whom suggested privately that they would resign if the Maastricht bill or anything like it is brought back on to the floor of the House of Commons . |