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

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1 Rocastle continued to play brilliantly and it was he who crossed the ball in for the third .
2 Both had gone inside but it was her husband Bailey who set the fire .
3 Half a bottle of wine a day — it 's not enough but it 's something .
4 I could n't say where , except it was like a pit , and sometimes I was floating above and it was nothing to do with me .
5 And erm so we set off and I ca n't remember which village it was but it was towards the Humber Estuary somewhere and it was what I call a cul-de-sac village .
6 It said he was driving dangerously and it was his car that hit the group .
7 I 've been away all this week because my wife took a telephone message from Nora yesterday and it is it is in our parish .
8 Sitting in the other studio but actually it 's Carl in there now and it 's it 's not Dennis in there at all and er how on earth I almost confused the two I do n't know .
9 But that was not the issue now and it was none of Vass 's business .
10 what 's it called ca n't think of the name of the blooming thing now but it was you did a line across , then you learn to do a long stitch
11 The children of today are the adults of tomorrow and it 's their world , but will they be ready for it ?
12 He had made that appointment five days ago and it was one that he would keep .
13 And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election .
14 Now there 's something else that 's important here and it 's something , it 's an aspect of erm of federalism that people very often er fail to grasp erm we live in a , a small and densely populated island er and we have a political structure and a party system which is highly centralized and which places er great emphasis on the question of party discipline and loyalty and er these centralized party structures control er the conduct of political business in the , in the parliament and , and in cabinet and there is essentially no political life outside of that .
15 erm James was born here and it 's it 's just very convenient .
16 There was a sailing er what do they call it , a here and it was him that he asked would could you send a boy there .
17 I do n't know how you do sludge and that there and it 's it 's everything it 's a con you know we ought to have kept some and shown you because it is it is I 've never seen anything like it myself .
18 ‘ What if Billy knew Lucy was n't there and it was you he was running to ? ’
19 And I know he 's nasty to Auntie Lou sometimes but it 's her own fault because she lets him be .
20 Stone stood it in there just stood it in there but it 's it 's a bit innocuous really .
21 They have done very well since starting up again and it is something we are thinking over . ’
22 ‘ We do n't know what lies ahead but it 's something to build on , ’ he said .
23 We er er erm in this country have a very bitter experience with B C C I , it was n't just the knock it took to the regulatory system but I need hardly remind this house there are thousands of people who lost everything they had and that and there are many people who lost everything they had and feel that this house has not taken their concern seriously and it 's something the minister must show that the government is willing to pursue these matters , even if it means introducing primary legislation .
24 And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is .
25 Erm that 's a b bit too But it 's it 's about Appalachian English ?
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