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

No	Sentence
1	I mean I 've not had or no skin or nothing it 's something like maybe
2	Well done , Des Wilson , or whoever it was who taught the tiresome Paddy this trick .
3	‘ Some chap or other told me once , ’ Artemis 's father suddenly said , ‘ that somebody or other discovered America before Columbus or whoever it was who did , but decided it was best to keep it under his hat . ’
4	She would never find now whatever it was she had been looking for from life .
5	Excuses not to do the work we think we might or should do , excuses not to be kind or considerate or whatever it is we feel we should be ?
6	But having done it , having completed the half a day or whatever it is we have , you know it 's not really a case of saying Right well that 's it .
7	It seems that this Andrée woman was the star turn there , won all the prizes , played all the parts , set the fashion or whatever it is they look up to at those girl schools , you should know . ’
8	Like getting a wage packet again , instead of voting myself a salary as my own director or whatever it is they make me do . ’
9	He used it as a chemical store once it had been deconsecrated or whatever it is they do to unused churches .
10	‘ Maybe next time Ellis will find me an undercover job that takes me to opium dens in Hong Kong , dusky maidens in Peru and shark-fishing amongst the coral reefs , or whatever it is they do there . ’
11	Humans 'll come back and mend the wheels or whatever it is they do . ’
12	So the builders have gone , and all the old biddies turn up in their Sunday best to say their Hail Marys , or whatever it is they do .
13	Or compute , or whatever it is you do . ’
14	Go and buy some curtains or whatever it is you want . "
15	from tapes or whatever it is you hold on .
16	You 're wasted as a carpenter , or whatever it is you like to call yourself .
17	‘ Forgive my asking , ’ she added , ‘ But are n't you wearing rather impractical gear for grubbing around in the earth or whatever it is you do ? ’
18	Now shut your eyes or whatever it is you do . ’
19	So the dream becomes a symbolic expression of this conflict and what very often happens is the there 's a kind of compromise in which you go off and look for the bathroom or the drink of water or whatever it is you want , but the dream keeps postponing you finding it , in order to lengthen the dream and the state of sleep , so you go on sleeping for a bit longer .
20	Or whatever it is you know .
21	Or whatever it is I 'm trying to configure .
22	I perhaps have worked out , I need a clerical assistant and so forth , I might need a small van to actually take my widget on a Friday , to Widget , or Big Widget factory , or whatever it is I do with these widgets .
23	‘ If it were Ben , ‘ Louise told Zoe , ‘ I would n't wage a long slow war of attrition , or whatever it is your doing .
24	‘ He 'll be busy , ’ said Robert , ‘ studying briefs , or whatever it is he does . ’
25	performer transposer or whatever it 's I do n't want to limit myself to just saying , I 'm a teacher other things as well .
26	With him , she felt none of the seething intoxication of love or lust or whatever it was which called her to Cameron .
27	If I told you now that we needed another five gangs of floor tilers or whatever it was which you had n't got enough of , it wo n't be floor tilers something you have n't got enough of , everything , could you get them by Monday ?
28	‘ Jehovah was wont to scare the pants off the Israelites — or whatever it was they girded up their loins with . ’
29	Most everybody in the house had gone to work , or whatever it was they did during daylight , and as I was only two feet away I reached over and slipped the lock , taking the phone receiver with me .
30	And they they seemed very determined er you know if if you do n't I think you 'd better er put the the box there and within twenty four forty eight hours or whatever it was we had the box in Quix you know .