Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] it be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But , ’ she might have added , ‘ we do not know who it is who helps Raynor , for he does not come to us . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It was rather touching that when I told him who the other members of the cast were — Ian Richardson , Zena Walker and Freddie Jones — he said : ‘ Do they know who it is who 's playing the character ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Do you know who it was who was with the target ? ’ |
| 4 | Even if she did claim to know who it was we 'd find it difficult to convince a judge , without far more proof than I have at the moment . ’ |
| 5 | When she called Nahum to know who it was he did n't answer , and it was almost a week before she recognized Elizabeth Bradford . |
| 6 | They were the years in which we began to grow up ; in which we started to discover who it was we thought we 'd like to be ; in which our earliest ( and therefore longest-lasting ) preferences in love , music , pleasure were formed . |
| 7 | Actually , actually I like to you do n't say much but when you say it it 's nothing . |
| 8 | ‘ But we have to do everything we can to find whatever it was he gave to Tristram before October the eleventh . ’ |
| 9 | If she wants whatever it is she gets out of this relationship , no one can deny she 's entitled to it . |
| 10 | er it 's always been er guaranteed i.e. if a customer was not satisfied , then one hundred percent we will rectify whatever it is they 're not satisfied with . |
| 11 | ‘ I hope you have n't caught whatever it was I had . ’ |
| 12 | Before you can make , you have to know what it is you are making . |
| 13 | It would have been invaluable to know what it was they really wanted from their association with the Ping Tiao . |
| 14 | He did n't seem to know what it was himself , but she knew that it could n't be love , and if it was n't love then none of the other possibilities mattered . |
| 15 | and I 'd want to know what it was you were going to shed . |
| 16 | ‘ The conference is waiting to discover what it is she intends to do , now that she has finally arrived in Brighton . ’ |
| 17 | We still do n't know what it is we are up against , do we ? ’ |
| 18 | You may be fumbling in the dark — both literally and metaphorically -but you might as well know what it is you might find ! |
| 19 | And she resisted finding out , in the way that other girls she had known kept themselves in deliberate ignorance of such things as impregnation , in the unarticulated hope that if they did n't know what it was it could n't happen to them . |
| 20 | I still did n't know what it was he was trying to tell me |
| 21 | The jeweller did n't know what it was my father showed him . |
| 22 | I forget what it was you used to make old horse rasps into because for |
| 23 | The stench from it filled our cell , making us feel nauseous and apprehensive that we , too , might catch whatever it was they were suffering from . |
| 24 | A friend who had a key let herself in and called upstairs , but I did n't want anyone to come into the bedroom because they might catch whatever it was I had . |
| 25 | As I said to mama then , by the time I am bedded , I shall likely be too old — or have forgotten what it is I am supposed to do ! ’ |
| 26 | I 've quite forgotten what it was you asked . ’ |
| 27 | In fact I 'd rather you ask as I 'm going through because er very often you think of something and er you wait to the end and you 've forgotten what it was you wanted to know until you 've got home when then you re all of a sudden you remember what it was . |
| 28 | It makes me feel insecure — not understanding what it is they want so much . |
| 29 | He discovered , for example , that laboratory technicians at Fawley were carrying out chemical tests without really understanding what it was they were doing . |
| 30 | ‘ I told them it was nothing . |