Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was er sitting watching you doling it out and suddenly realized it was mine . |
| 2 | Is he aware that the right hon. Gentleman who so described it was none other than the Leader of the Opposition ? |
| 3 | She did n't know how he had forced that admission out of her , she only knew it was something she had to say . |
| 4 | Fucking knew it was them ! |
| 5 | just thought it was his natural hair but |
| 6 | ‘ Of course at first I just thought it was someone from a boat that had been driven in by the weather . |
| 7 | I tell you , I just remembered it 's my Dad 's birthday on , on Wednesday , on Wednesday . |
| 8 | Yeah , we just had it 's what she 's eaten cos I have n't had not time to get it done ! |
| 9 | On the amendment side I am reluctant it does infringe on a local democracy but I agree with the Liberal Democrats , it 's a way forward and it 's a responsibility of all of us I I agree with Roger when he mentioned that Professor mentioned that this is the Labour party like usually always mentioned it is your budget when the budget is approved it is the whole county council budget every member should be responsible for it . |
| 10 | He still believed it was his God given right to govern . |
| 11 | He was fined £50 for breaching a local by-law but yesterday claimed it was everybody 's right to search for bait in a ruling dating back to the Magna Carta in 1215 . |
| 12 | He always claimed it was me , ’ |
| 13 | He would be a world-champion tiddly-winks player too if he ever decided it was something worth taking up . |
| 14 | That was what was so endearing about him , but she hardly thought it was something she should mention to his brother ! |
| 15 | Flashman said : ‘ Barry and I took calls on Thursday from someone saying he was Martin Edwards , and we genuinely thought it was him . |
| 16 | Oh I always thought it was my ulcer that was causing it , you know , so I was , every time I took it I was taking an extra Samtack |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Marie , ‘ Simon always said it was you did that to the kiosk . |
| 18 | ‘ There was a long pause and Dr Runcie said : ‘ Well , I always suspected it was he who had written it , but I never thought there was anything personal in it . |
| 19 | Clerval now decided it was his turn to be unpleasant . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose in a way I always really knew it was you , ’ he says . |
| 21 | She immediately presumed it was something to do with Templeton 's , but she was wrong . |
| 22 | Some even thought it was his going away do ! |
| 23 | He heard someone cry out , a terrible cry , and then realised it was himself . |
| 24 | She thought it was the squirrel again , but then realised it was something moving jerkily in the hollow of a decayed tree below her and close to the beech . |
| 25 | Twice , with a thump , she spotted him , in the set of a man 's shoulders , the tilt of a head , a patch of uniform , then found it was someone else . |
| 26 | You le , you ripped his fucking stool to shreds , and then said it was me ! |
| 27 | Yet had it been anyone else — I would have guessed . |
| 28 | Not many lives ago there were public hangings in this country and people certainly thought it was their right to watch and enjoy in fact , they even paid for seats to see public hangings , if they could afford to and as Mr has pointed out , er it 's not long ago er that bear baiting and badger baiting and cock fighting were seen as right and proper and no doubt spoken of as rights of free born Englishmen . |
| 29 | ‘ Charlie said he 'd found a substitute , but he never said it was you . ’ |