Example sentences of "[noun sg] what it be [pers pn] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | He said , Well er , you know , it 's just that , I mean with nature being what it is you see . |
| 5 | and really with the bank 's image of being what it is you see I found I |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That 's the main problem What it is I 'm ho we 're holding fire |
| 8 | She no longer had any idea what it was she wanted to say to him . |
| 9 | 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 . |