Example sentences of "[verb] it be [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Ken , has it been worth it ? |
| 2 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 3 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 4 | I know Meredith Putt 's been doing a lot of talking about the railway , but I did n't know it was on its way . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I expect it is on its way , ’ said the Thing calmly . |
| 6 | There was such stillness in him that when he moved it was like something dead had come alive again . |
| 7 | It 's organisers say it 's for everyone and it 's receiving public funding . |
| 8 | say it 's on its way , it 's on its way ! |
| 9 | I say it 's like him him not paying his poll tax . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's just jealous because each time the telephone rings it 's for me and not for him . |
| 11 | He found it was at its worst in the late evenings when he sat alone in Fern Cottage . |
| 12 | It maybe wants it 's like mine , cos all upstairs wants balancing . |
| 13 | Now lets just close with those words of of Peter , on the day of pentecost , it 's not for other just , he says it 's for you , it 's for your children , and it 's to as many as there are far off , right down through the centuries , as many as the Lord our God shall call . |
| 14 | The Sheriff says it 's by his own hand . |
| 15 | He says it was for their funeral but now they 've got nothing . |
| 16 | Christopher Court , MP , had no difficulty in getting straight through on the telephone to Chief Superintendent Coffin once he had decided it was to him he wished to speak . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They did n't feel for example they could go into the advice centre , they did n't feel it was for them . |
| 19 | He will try Rowntrees again , and said : ‘ I hope it 's worth it . ’ |
| 20 | It costs plenty , but I figure it 's worth it . |
| 21 | Therefore , I know it 's in my title deeds and I would assume it 's in his title deeds . |
| 22 | She was willing to be used by him and the outrageous request received the obedient , ‘ Let it be to me according to your word ’ ( Luke 1.38 ) . |
| 23 | It had a Birmingham postmark and was addressed to ‘ Robert Hilton ’ and she assumed it was for her son . |
| 24 | Gwendoline , I think , look it 's on her leg . |
| 25 | And I 'm going to suggest it 's in your interest to learn how the media operate , and it 's in your interest to cultivate the media , and it 's in your interest to actually persuade the media to do a lot of the work which you would normally do for yourselves if I could put it that way . |
| 26 | Well , you could see it was worth it . |
| 27 | Lineker , on the other hand , took his decision having already played in two World Cups , deciding it was in his best interests to seek a fortune playing in Japan rather than face the prospect of losing his status and even his England place as his legs began to fail him . |
| 28 | Yeah , well she reckoned it 's on it lovely actually . |
| 29 | I even know , thanks to Montesquieu , that one may be a Persian , but as for Man , I declare that I have never met him in my life ; if he exists it is without my knowledge.1 |
| 30 | that 's hard job to find out what to do it is for me any rate |