Example sentences of "it be [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Interesting Pauline at work , she 's ever so hurt , could n't get over it , she came up to me the other day she said , hello , how long has it been we have n't seen one another for two months . |
2 | They would n't have managed eighteen holes had it been you know a hilly course . |
3 | you know in terms of , not necessarily the precise content , but you can get erm some general idea about how people have studied the mental life of blind persons and how , you know , maybe it 's interesting that er presumably most of the people who 've studied it are themselves sighted rather than blind themselves you know |
4 | Among these are that a complete network may have only one start event and only one finish event ; that an event is not complete until all the activities leading to it are themselves complete ; and that a network must always move forwards in time . |
5 | MR SKINNER believes the monarchy and the structures built around it are what holds Britain back from what he calls ‘ real democracy ’ . |
6 | When we 've finished it are you gon na give |
7 | Is it are you going to be checked ? |
8 | ‘ Could it be somebody working for Connelly with an axe to grind ? ’ asked Martin Bates , running his finger around the rim of his glass . |
9 | Lord , do n't let it be me speaking . |
10 | And preferably , let it be something concerning himself . ’ |
11 | ‘ Could it be you recognise in me things you despise in yourself ? ’ |
12 | Could it be you want me to touch you ? ’ |
13 | It was for nitrate , one of the least concerns for most fishkeepers ( should it be I wonder ) but high on the list for marine fishkeepers who probably use mainly specialist outlets . |
14 | Could it be he understood them too well , and would know what the discrepancy meant ? |
15 | Erm oh I asked him about that when I went and he said it were nothing to worry about , it 's just |
16 | It were her give it us . |
17 | We would n't know it were we shown . |
18 | James expressed the negative side when he described it as ‘ the theory which denies that there can be in a sensation any element of actual locality , any tone as it were which cries to us immediately and without further ado , ‘ I am here ’ or ‘ I am there ’ ’ . |
19 | Scrumpy should come up , scrumpy should come up all clouded you know , you know with bits of sheep and er bit bits of sheep and rats and that lying about in it were they 've thrown them into the you think I 'm joking do n't you ? |
20 | Oh it were I play a bloody tune on it bloody snake charmer |
21 | In so far as the functions performed by Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih , apparently successively , may be characterized as an " office " from an Institutional point of view , as it were it seems not to have been continuous , however , at least on the evidence of the biographical sources . |
22 | No it were n't ma , it were , it were it did its job , that was keep your heating up , cos you could blow it up and it |
23 | When was it were you born were you born You were born in the Republic of Ireland . |
24 | Well there there i they used to s you know invite everybody you said to you know everybody down on the picket line , well we were kids we used to go like re to be quite honest like we went because it were you know a bit of fun really . |
25 | Well in a sense how do you know you 're not , as it were you know in many cases . |
26 | yeah I think that 's probably the best thing and gradually the past you 've missed might start fitting into place as it were you know if you , if you keep up with the present , I think that 's probably the best thing so er and , you know , er I know it 's no comfort but these things take time , you know it takes time to get socialized into something and it takes time to get used to a way of working . |
27 | I said no Julie I said I have n't I said I would tell you cos I said I , she said to me do ring me and let me know , and I said I said I would and I will , I said no cos I did n't tell her when it were you see , so I said it 's this week coming and I 'll ring you this on Monday , so she said oh it was only , cos she said I saw Deb and Deb wondered , I thought yeah I bet she did she would |
28 | Hell , everybody I know 's done something like that at some time or another but that does n't make them a murderer ; I think McDunn 's crazy but I ca n't tell him that because , if he 's wrong about that and I 'm wrong about it being something to do with those guys who died in the Lake District a few years ago , then there 's only one suspect left and that 's me . |
29 | who 's going this , who , what , who 's going to answer if they put a hundred and fifty , a hundred and seventy thousand , five pound down and nobody will watching it being who did it ? |
30 | ‘ Mrs Dinah , it 's himself has come ! |