Example sentences of "know what it be [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before you can make , you have to know what it is you are making . |
| 2 | It would have been invaluable to know what it was they really wanted from their association with the Ping Tiao . |
| 3 | and I 'd want to know what it was you were going to shed . |
| 4 | We still do n't know what it is we are up against , do we ? ’ |
| 5 | You may be fumbling in the dark — both literally and metaphorically -but you might as well know what it is you might find ! |
| 6 | And she resisted finding out , in the way that other girls she had known kept themselves in deliberate ignorance of such things as impregnation , in the unarticulated hope that if they did n't know what it was it could n't happen to them . |
| 7 | I still did n't know what it was he was trying to tell me |
| 8 | Goody points out that the written form of language releases us from the linear experiential mode : ‘ the fact that it takes a visual form means that one can escape from the problem of the succession of events in time , by backtracking , skipping , looking to see who-done-it before we know what it is they did . |
| 9 | You know what it is I bet they 're pruning in the field |
| 10 | As long as know what it is I 'll do it when I get home . |
| 11 | And if you could pop in there , you know what it is I 'm |
| 12 | But , alas , madam , I do not in the present know what it is you are asking if I am seeing . ’ |
| 13 | If I 'd known what it was I would have chopped up that snow-plough before the snows arrived . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Without knowing what it is I ca n't say — and it 's not something I can rush because the girl wo n't talk if she 's frightened , or she 'll talk but not tell us the truth . |
| 15 | Since he had caught sight of the Summoner , he had not liked to watch the resettlers pouring through into Utah , knowing what it was they were really following . |
| 16 | She frowned , not knowing what it was she was looking for , then turned back , looking at him . |
| 17 | ‘ Ah , but I should have acted six years ago , I should have taken you then when you were vulnerable in your confusion — as I supposed — involved with a recently married man , presumably for the first time , and not knowing what it was you felt for me because you were so sure Jones was all you wanted . |
| 18 | Though he did not know it , and never would , he was looking at the blazing jet-pipe of Colonel Bowers ' F-15 Eagle as both men raced on different missions towards the British capital , neither man knowing what it was he carried . |
| 19 | Now I knew what it was I had then only felt … |
| 20 | ‘ When I was in India , I thought then I knew what it was I might believe in . |