Example sentences of "of [pron] be it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Of whom was it said : ‘ He was not only a bore , he bored for England ’ .
2 Of whom was it said : ‘ Old politicians never die , they simply wade away ’ .
3 Of whom was it said , ‘ There but for the grace of God goes God ’ ?
4 However , the other consequence of it is it promotes their reproductive success and you can erm you can see that it is indeed an effect of testosterone if you castrated live longer than uncastrated males , and the earlier they 're castrated , the longer they live .
5 We we got lots of evidence to suggest that actually the amount of noise problem outside weekends is actually and we do n't actually have the staff to actually deal with this problem without considerably more expenditure than anybody in this council is actually talking about and our tendency towards this erm again this is a bid of of what 's it sounds good and as as to the public conveniences this has been liaised it 's been negotiated about , it 's been looked at very , very expansively indeed .
6 No , actually there she is at the back of What is it called B G H , just five letters ?
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