Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [be] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a track on The Nightblooms ' recent album ( it may have been their debut , I do n't know . |
| 2 | And it may have been her devotion to fitness that saved her life . |
| 3 | It may have been my stupidity , but I had not realised it . |
| 4 | ‘ Pity , it may have been your last day off for I do n't know how long . ’ |
| 5 | The principate of Severus probably saw the greatest expansion , and it is perhaps no coincidence that it may have been he who introduced the annona militaris , a tax paid in grain or other materials to meet the needs of the army . |
| 6 | HE HAD another chance ; it may have been his last . |
| 7 | For some reason both the adjoining clerical incumbents wished to call his soul their own ; or it may have been his jumble that they wanted . |
| 8 | An elder sister , Sarah , had in 1787 married the Glasgow architect , John Craig , and it may have been his brother-in-law who provided his initial professional training . |
| 9 | As for Mike Lawrence , it may have been his last test flight , but he was determined to go out in flamboyant style |
| 10 | It ought to have been his work out there getting a full half page . |
| 11 | Hypnosis does not increase the recall of meaningless information like nonsense syllables , which it should do were it tapping a hypothetical memory-taperecorder lurking in the subconscious . |
| 12 | In one fell swoop she moves from looking like Adeva 's mum to superstuff queen bitch on ‘ It Should 've Been Me ’ . |
| 13 | it should 've been something like this . |
| 14 | But I say , it should 've been it should 've been all d I mean everybody 's known about this chiller for a long while and it 's as I say , I mean when was here it was costing a thousand pound a time . |
| 15 | It should have been something that the Royal Shakespeare did and not Tennents trying to turn it into a West End night out . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It should have been something superb , he had the site for it . |
| 17 | It should have been me what found her really . ’ |
| 18 | She burst into tears and said : ‘ It should have been me and not their lovely daughter . |
| 19 | Er I th I think if the honourable member pays attention he will appreciate that the boundaries are the nub of the issue in terms of er electoral systems and the common electoral system to which this country is a signatory in agreeing that that should be where we are er headed , is a principle which I believe that this er commission should have been asked to address , it should have been what was happening er at this time in the history of the European parliament , should have happened long ago but sadly it 's a principle which both Labour and Conservative governments in the past have preferred to ignore frankly for their own electoral benefit . |
| 20 | It should have been him nursing a headache , not her . |
| 21 | A few people got terribly carried away , leaping up to voice their guilt at John being kidnapped and saying that it should have been them . |
| 22 | ‘ It should have been you . |
| 23 | It must 've been her . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It must 've been someone walking home from the pub . ’ |
| 25 | It must have been something out of the ordinary because even a player of his vast experience was affected by it . |
| 26 | ‘ It must have been something awful , ’ she said . |
| 27 | It must have been something he 'd seen his mother do . |
| 28 | ‘ I knew it must have been something like that . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It must have been something important to break a friendship over . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps not a Jacobite Guinea ; but it must have been something worth having . ’ |