Example sentences of "[vb past] it be [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intending not to forget her car again , however , Fabia dipped her spoon into her pudding , sampled it , and discovered it was something of a rather superb plum pie , if different from what she knew . |
| 2 | Now er w w with every respect , to say that he survived it is something of a crass statement , because I remember reading about him thinking is n't this country getting good that we can have a black guardsman , and I remember my own disappointment when I read that he had to leave the regiment . |
| 3 | Father Martin knew it was him of course , had to . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew it was summat of the sort . ’ |
| 5 | Christina knew it was none of her business — Martin was a free agent — but it disturbed her somehow to see him being so hotly pursued by a determined young woman . |
| 6 | ‘ I said it 's none of your business . ’ |
| 7 | She said it 's none of my business |
| 8 | And he said it 's none of your business . |
| 9 | Tony Soper was Nature 's early-riser and this programme suggested it is something of a habit with him , for we also saw him in the Falklands carrying out an investigation into whether the war — or was it just a conflict ? — had upset the wildlife there . |