Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] it be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always keep in mind what it is you need and want to practise , then decide how you can most effectively do that . |
| 2 | You need to make it clear to the recipient what it is you want of them . |
| 3 | Every teacher who makes excessive sacrifices in the time and attention needed for his own personal growth to the demands of the organisation within which he works or to its students is ultimately denying to that organisation and those students the very knowledge , understanding and skill which it is his professional responsibility to offer . |
| 4 | If a man shoots his dog because the animal is no longer capable of service , he does not fail in his duty to the dog , for the dog can not judge , but his act is inhuman and damages in himself that humanity which it is his duty to show towards mankind … . |
| 5 | ‘ Try explaining that on your wedding night , Sally-Anne Tunstall , and tell your husband who it was who was there before him . ’ |
| 6 | Bethune-Baker regarded Anglo-Catholicism as part of the nonsense which it was his mission to destroy . |
| 7 | Wish fulfilment dreams — they 're the ones where you actually get to catch that partner — useful of course if you had n't previously acknowledged to your waking self who it is you 're pursuing in your unconscious mind ! |
| 8 | You wanted to wake up with him right there in the room and to turn to him and quote the next line of the film right back at him , to whisper it to him , make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame , and I do n't mean that in some tragedy queen way , but in order to say of Boy that truly I do think that it is a beauty like his that makes it all worth while , and I do feel that if we are fighting for anything , and if I was asked in a questionnaire what it was I was fighting for ( and believe me I do feel like I am fighting , more and more I think that ) , then I would answer , beauty . |
| 9 | He said , Well er , you know , it 's just that , I mean with nature being what it is you see . |
| 10 | and really with the bank 's image of being what it is you see I found I |
| 11 | When he looked at you it was like he knew something he was n't telling , or was laughing at you , no matter what it was he said . |
| 12 | You save up for the tokens to get what get y'know whatever it is you 're after . |
| 13 | ‘ And still I have no idea who it is we discuss . ’ |
| 14 | That 's the main problem What it is I 'm ho we 're holding fire |
| 15 | She no longer had any idea what it was she wanted to say to him . |
| 16 | Likewise Caroline Bynum , in Holy Feast , Holy Fast , her book about medieval women religious , pours a rigorous historian 's scorn on the idea that the extreme penitential fastings of some of these women can really be diagnosed as anorexic , or as any other sort of neurosis ( as proposed for example by Rudolph Bell in Holy Anorexia ) : not merely are the case histories inadequate , but these women 's understanding of their bodies , of their relationship to Christ , of their right to participate in his sufferings , of their sense of identity , their very selves , was formed in a social environment so different from our own that nothing is to be gained by reading off their lives in this way rather than exploring in proper detail what it was they did feel and think . |