Example sentences of "it be [noun sg] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Only a minute or two earlier you were saying things like : ‘ It 's just a sort of a , a sort of a , a , a , a question of as it were sort of behaving sort of , well , for want of a better word , decently , sort of thing . ’ |
| 2 | I am going to take a risk and say what I think about local radio on the basis of my knowledge , personal knowledge , and these gentlemen can as it , as it were sort of say it 's , it 's not like that for them or whatever . |
| 3 | It 's function in helping to remove toxins from the bloodstream is useful in most illnesses . |
| 4 | So they 'll have so many houses to work in , they will go along initially and make sure the plugs on er irons and It sounds very simple but it 's part of helping the community . |
| 5 | It 's part of Go ! |
| 6 | She says a great many doctors say it 's part of ageing like grey hair , your bones become less dense . |
| 7 | One of the women on this Sunderland estate told me they all recognised the drive : " It 's part of becoming a member of the community instead of just a reckless teenager . |
| 8 | ( WES ) Tonight we look at one small company that 's played it 's part in helping to reduce the dole queues . |
| 9 | She 's got one , it 's flat , it 's not flat but it 's kind of deflated , she 's getting er , doing handstands on it and she 's going my head , it 's my head |
| 10 | It 's kind of quiet these days , since the railroad pulled out . |
| 11 | But he says the hospital changed it 's mind without telling him . |
| 12 | It 's pleasure of going around . |
| 13 | It 's a , it 's a flow rate , it 's rate of using up electricity , watts . |
| 14 | No it 's not bad the game actually it 's alright but it is a bit sort of like boring when it 's , when you play it every day and it 's sort of break your neck or something . |
| 15 | cut into the neck but it 's sort of brushed back |
| 16 | Now , so , that up there so it 's sort of facing the right way . |
| 17 | Do you think it 'll it 's sort of cut so that the er it fits on top of the brickwork ? |
| 18 | the same and other branches coming off of that one and other branches coming off of that one it 's sort of gets smaller and smaller and is gets |
| 19 | It 's sort of rained |
| 20 | But it it 's sort of built into the ground apparently so that it 'd be pretty low down . |
| 21 | I think it 's sort of accepted that men need their leisure time you know , it 's vital to them to either get out to the pub or get their leisure time and it 's women that 's considered they do n't need it , they 're you know , I do n't think it 's se se se , considered as important . |
| 22 | and then it 's sort of joined together onto another branch and then there 's a branch there . |
| 23 | But they said that that was for us and we said the garages , it 's sort of run down now and no use in trying to build it up again . |
| 24 | Well a ponch er it 's sort of made of wood , and got a got a handle crosswise which you held in one half of it in each hand , it had a stem , and on the on the ponch itself was a sort of er piece of wood that had been er cut out to have about four , I think it was four , legs on this , you see and you used to stand over the ponch and |
| 25 | it 's sort of does that |
| 26 | No , it 's sort of lit up . |
| 27 | Funny way of looking at it I know but it 's sort of to give you an idea of how how the different ways you can actually do this this mechanism and brings out the er variations . |
| 28 | and she 's doing other things through work that you know , I 'm I mean it in theory it 's sort of giving some support to . |
| 29 | And you find more or more or less forceful ways of of giving directives , and one way of making some things perhaps a bit less forceful is to put a tag question on cos it 's sort of adding a sort of pleading note on to it , to ask somebody to do it , I think . |
| 30 | It 's sort of dwindled very rapidly |