Example sentences of "it be [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others demand a bit more interaction from the enquiry service — what does the Garden do ; how long has it been doing it ; can staff answer enquiries on particular topics . |
| 2 | And tried to get some settlement , but I do n't believe it are giving us any settlement cos he was n't prepared to do anything like that . |
| 3 | So , so the people that are not making any money out of it by doing it are selling it to them very cheap so it is their own fault ! |
| 4 | Why should it be imagined she would enjoy such lies ? |
| 5 | Whether I pay or go free , whatever the cost , I will not let it be said I killed a decent man to keep him from accusing me . |
| 6 | Do n't let it be said I kept you here against your will . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't let it be said I stopped anyone working — especially Robyn Drew , ’ he added sarcastically . |
| 8 | Well , never let it be said I disappointed a lady ! ’ he growled , coming to his knees and reaching for her . |
| 9 | And if so why should it be supposed they had adventured into the forest rather than eastward towards the corn lands and the nearer towns , and the coast ? |
| 10 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 11 | I let it be known I was n't really interested in going out again , and hoped they 'd get the message — that I was finished with it . ’ |
| 12 | Last week Dr Feeney , who has just completed a lecture tour of the States , let it be known he would not be seeking the SDLP nomination to contest the Oldpark ward in North Belfast . |
| 13 | Last Friday night Sir Hector Monro , Scottish minister of agriculture , let it be known he was not happy about board proposals to transfer its every nut , bolt , fixture and fitting from statutory monopoly to voluntary co-op from April 1994 . |
| 14 | In a statement in response to increasing media interest in his health , he said he had decided to let it be known he was undergoing treatment . |
| 15 | John Major too has let it be known he believes President Clinton 's foreign policy to be virtually indistinguishable from that of George Bush . |
| 16 | It can be , it can be two types of , what can it be do you know ? |
| 17 | actually er as it were fused I do n't mean that sort of fuse , I mean |
| 18 | In well it were done you know one fellow get on with that . |
| 19 | The men in it were chasing me . |
| 20 | Whether an OCL waybill would be subject to Hague or Hague-Visby rules if it were to incorporate them by reference , and whether if applied , these rules would exclude inconsistent contractual clauses seems to vary from statute to statute . |
| 21 | But if it were granted it would significantly strengthen the conservationists ' hand politically . |
| 22 | And nine times out of ten people in that situation , when they 're actually creating their article or their programme or anything else , will take that material , use their own style , wrap it up , and as it were throw it out , and if you 're pro-active in that sense , you stand a very very much better chance of them getting it right . |
| 23 | This house suddenly felt as if it were suffocating her . |
| 24 | Were doing it were doing it . |
| 25 | and it were making him bad . |
| 26 | Oh it were to tell him that dinner were ready and there 's this cheeky little mouse sat on top dinner , and he ai n't half eaten it |
| 27 | ‘ We had a similar set-up some years ago and if it were reintroduced I think the standard of the women 's game would rise ’ . |
| 28 | Very deliberately , and as if it were giving him great pain , the German who had said little began to speak . |
| 29 | I do n't want you to give me your answers now , I am as it were giving you the opportunity now , over lunch , to consider this matter . |
| 30 | Lord James promised to monitor the situation and to bring legislation forward if it were proved it was needed . |