Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] it be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if she did claim to know who it was we 'd find it difficult to convince a judge , without far more proof than I have at the moment . ’ |
| 2 | When she called Nahum to know who it was he did n't answer , and it was almost a week before she recognized Elizabeth Bradford . |
| 3 | They were the years in which we began to grow up ; in which we started to discover who it was we thought we 'd like to be ; in which our earliest ( and therefore longest-lasting ) preferences in love , music , pleasure were formed . |
| 4 | ‘ But we have to do everything we can to find whatever it was he gave to Tristram before October the eleventh . ’ |
| 5 | Before you can make , you have to know what it is you are making . |
| 6 | It would have been invaluable to know what it was they really wanted from their association with the Ping Tiao . |
| 7 | He did n't seem to know what it was himself , but she knew that it could n't be love , and if it was n't love then none of the other possibilities mattered . |
| 8 | and I 'd want to know what it was you were going to shed . |
| 9 | ‘ The conference is waiting to discover what it is she intends to do , now that she has finally arrived in Brighton . ’ |
| 10 | Hugo says I am so persuasive in convincing myself on this subject he begins to wonder who it is who speaks through Eleanor Darcy , is it God or the Devil ? |
| 11 | ‘ Then I drove almost two hundred miles down from Lisboa in order to visit whoever it was who owned this house . ’ |
| 12 | Most believers , it is likely , find it difficult much of the time even to remember what it is they are supposed to believe . |
| 13 | Oh yes , do you know , I was trying to remember what it was you wanted from that place over in Homesdale , you , you know where I mean do n't you ? |
| 14 | This short book was written to help teachers and student teachers interested in researching what happens in their classrooms to identify what it is they want to investigate and the most appropriate way of setting about it . |
| 15 | Very cost What I 'm saying is it 's quick erm people expect to do it it 's something oh if they 're writing instead of going round I 'll pick up the phone and do it . |
| 16 | Never would I wish to do whatever it is they do — nobody would ! |
| 17 | Only now have I come to understand what it was my sixth sense was trying to tell me then ; in any case it would have been too late , Aunt Nessy was waiting , and bending down , I put my arms round her , and kissed her . |
| 18 | Erm but again you have got to decide what it is you want out of your retirement because you 're the boss and it 's no good moaning when you 're into your retirement that it does n't suit you because you 've planned it , you 've made the decisions and therefore it 's up to you to alter whatever you do n't like . |
| 19 | Well I mean you have to get them it 's it 's the little money you would get for those you 'd have a job finding |
| 20 | ‘ I understand that people have high hopes for their tapes and I do try to see people who really believe in their stuff and who try to convince me it 's something I will want to hear . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ And I suppose she 's been trying to convince you it was me . ’ |
| 22 | All three features are designed to convey that Henry is not just looking at the roots but reflecting on them and struggling to think what it is they bring to mind . |
| 23 | ‘ But then , ’ she said , ‘ when you try to think what it is you 've got hold of , it 's not very easy to say . ’ |
| 24 | I was just going to eat whatever it is they have and then go to sleep . |
| 25 | During a meeting yesterday , Mrs Aquino told her cabinet ‘ to take a long , hard look at ourselves in order to see what it is we did wrong and what else needs to be done so we can all benefit from this tragic experience in our lives ’ . |
| 26 | During a meeting yesterday , Mrs Aquino told her cabinet ‘ to take a long , hard look at ourselves in order to see what it is we did wrong and what else needs to be done so we can all benefit from this tragic experience in our lives ’ . |
| 27 | I find myself looking over my shoulder to see what it is they 're looking at that way . |
| 28 | Since they look a little strange when X-Rayed , security may open your case to see what it is you have in there . |
| 29 | Crouching a little , he risked turning his head to see what it was he 'd hit . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , shut up , Bob , ’ said Dyson , peering into the engine and trying to see what it was he had touched . |