Example sentences of "[vb past] it be [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Yeah , well she reckoned it 's on it lovely actually .
2	‘ When you talked it was like you 'd just thought of it .
3	‘ He was charming , ’ she lied , and felt it was worth it to see him look relieved .
4	Undry was in her mind , shedding troubled surges of light through deep darkness ; what am I going to do ? she wondered , and knew it was beyond her to decide anything .
5	Everything was wonderful , he said , and she knew it was for him .
6	Then not long after , we were both walking under some scaffolding — she was already under it and out of view — when a workman whistled , so I knew it was for me , not her .
7	I knew it was for me to approach the Colonel again , rather than vice versa .
8	As soon as I saw it , I knew it was for you . ’
9	‘ I knew it was about me .
10	She knew it was about her .
11	But I thought it was worth it , until this happened .
12	I thought it was worth it , two thirty nine .
13	I thought it was from you . ’
14	She 's been married , got two kids — how on earth she gave birth to those two children , is beyond me , how on earth she made it is beyond me .
15	True the first formers had had to go to bed an hour earlier , but they all voted it was worth it , Gwendoline felt vicious about the whole affair , she 'd determining not to be put off by her first day there .
16	Or had it been between them , or only in her own highly tuned emotions ?
17	Nick , who paid £240 in fines , said it was worth it .
18	It was called ‘ Billy Bayswater ’ and she said it was about me .
19	She took the call and said it was for me .
20	They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’
21	He said it was for him the perfect realization of Sibelius as a passionate but anti-sensual composer .
22	But he said it was for you and gave me the phone back to take a message .

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