Example sentences of "it [be] [det] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She reckons it were that chap she worked for , the one what lives in one of they new houses here in Upper Benbury . ’ |
| 2 | er it were this mechanic who lives in who 's , who knows a good mate of Tony 's and he 's told Tony Tony told him like and he says right , he said leave the car to me . |
| 3 | Lying near it were some plates which had been washed and left to drain , and beside them stood the most delicate of porcelain cups . |
| 4 | It 's piss-all information you had . |
| 5 | It 's that total I want . |
| 6 | No it 's that way I 've already put it in my handbag . |
| 7 | It 's that stuff I made last year and |
| 8 | The Malvern Hills have been looked after by the Conservators for around one hundred and ten years.Now they 're asking Parliament for more powers.And it 's that request which has led to controversy . |
| 9 | And if it 's that girl you 're thinking of , forget it . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's that sterilizer you asked me to watch , Nurse Dungarvan . |
| 11 | Perhaps it 's that bloke who locked the gates in Gibraltar so they could n't get into Spain . |
| 12 | Well this is what she said ju just now , yeah well not just now , earlier on , she said about getting out there and I said well I 'm sure it 's that place she said well it 's the only one out there that she could think of . |
| 13 | And it 's that moment which , when we trace the expansion backwards , will have occurred between about fifteen and eighteen billion years ago , but we ca n't say what , if anything , may have happened before that , whether the universe bounced out into another state of expansion , so we have a sort of a cut off in our ability to retrodict , or extrapolate backwards into the past . |
| 14 | It 's that crowd 'e 's runnin' aroun ’ wiv . |
| 15 | A lot of people took risks to make the tractors sell and some economists feel it 's that confidence which will eventually pull Britain back up out of recession . |
| 16 | If we find we have enough information , to proceed it 's all ifs I know . |
| 17 | " It 's all lies what you 're saying . " |
| 18 | It 's all lies I tell you . |
| 19 | it 's all catarrh she says |
| 20 | Another thing is of course it 's all pets it is n't just dogs and cats . |
| 21 | It 's all information we need to have before we sail . |
| 22 | However , it 's the notes in the former chord which by intervallic interchange become chromatic notes in the latter chord , and it 's this approach which produces the most effective results . |
| 23 | And it 's this approach which is a key the scheme 's success . |
| 24 | I know , I think after Christmas I 'm gon na go and have a look for some dresses and you see when it was an ordinary colour I was gon na have ivory but now it 's this colour I think i 'll be better having having white , I do n't know . |
| 25 | I feel that it shows itself in the contrast between the child 's — we 're talking about children for the moment , although obviously there are dyslexic adults — it shows itself in the contrast between the person 's ability to express him or herself in words and their ability to put it down on paper and to read it off paper , and it 's this contrast which often arouses one 's suspicions that there might be some problem and , having gone into it a little , we find that it stems from a failure of the sensory motor system — the brain is n't processing the information it 's receiving through the ear and eye . |
| 26 | It 's this dream which prompted Rita to leave her Caribbean home for Canada six years ago . |
| 27 | And it 's this journey from external reality to the profound truths of art , a journey which takes Proust through a series of investigations of the nature of time , the nature of the intellect , the nature of memory , it 's this journey which I must now attempt to trace , and I perhaps just ought to say that I think I get abstract once or twice from this point onwards . |
| 28 | It 's this generation who 'll benefit from the new Europe ; a Europe that 's proving so hard to build . |
| 29 | If it 's this cold she might not bother coming back |
| 30 | It 's this family I 'm thinking about . |