Example sentences of "[num] it be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 2 | Cos when we shared it out between three it was like if you just stand up and have a look along there . |
| 3 | St Giles 's cathedral nearby is more properly known as the High Kirk , having been formally designated a cathedral for only a brief period during the reign of Charles I. It was here that Charles attempted to impose a High Anglican liturgy , virtually a Mass , upon a Presbyterian society which responded with brawls in the church and outside , still remembered as the Jenny Geddes Riots after a vegetable seller from the market who was reported to have thrown her stool at the Dean 's head . |
| 4 | By the time of the French Revolution there were in any case only three monks left in Saint-Savin and even though the church was spared the vindictive demolition which removed the adjacent monastery buildings , by 1840 it was more than ready to be rescued by the growing movement for the Conservation of ancient monuments . |
| 5 | In 1950 , America consumed half the world 's oil ; by 1960 this fell to 44% and by 1970 it was less than one third . |
| 6 | Something like that , trying to remember now what it was , sixteen hundred , sixteen hundred that was it and it says your credit limit is sixteen , sixteen , you could spend up to sixteen hundred pounds , whether you got it or not you can spend it , so we said if we 're gon na get this computer because you get these Air Miles out of it , you know , every ten pounds you get an Air Mile , well if he 's getting a computer over a thousand pounds you know with all the paraphernalia that goes with it , well that 's a lot of Air Miles there , well we said we 'll get it through Access , but there is n't , our credit limit on Access is n't enough to pay for the computer , sixteen hundred it 's more than sixteen hundred , in , in the long , once he 's got his printer and God knows what you know , so I phoned them up and he said erm is it possible to adjust the limit upwards ? |
| 7 | In 1863 it was all but gutted by a disastrous fire , but mercifully the ashlar-faced east façade remained entirely intact with its projected balustraded bay , its shell-headed niches , its eccentric demonstration of Doric , Ionic and Corinthian columns in three tiers — all in Purbeck stone . |
| 8 | Spanish hostility was obviously a handicap to it , but when the charter was declared void in 1624 it was mainly because the Company was bankrupt ; the Spanish objection was to the colony rather than to the Company , and the colony was allowed to survive . |