Example sentences of "it be [prep] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 2 | To follow a rule , e.g. the rule for use of the word ‘ pain ’ ( the rule embodied in the concept of pain ) , is not to check , as it were within oneself , on whether this new sensation resembles the original one and , if it does , to think of it as a pain . |
| 3 | ‘ Their pride is not for each other , it 's for themselves . |
| 4 | It 's for myself . |
| 5 | ‘ But it 's within yourself , what drives you on to win championships and cups . |
| 6 | Erm , so it 's it 's in itself is translation into English of some earlier writing . |
| 7 | But with a woman or girl , no , unless it 's against yourself . |
| 8 | All living beings are linked at a mind level and all behaviour is an utterance , an ‘ outer-ance ’ , an expression of the creature 's inner being , just as it is with ourselves . |
| 9 | And no doubt , the shape of a banana is linked in a chimp 's mind with its pleasurable flavour , as it is with ourselves . |
| 10 | Soft flabby growth in plants is as much at risk to disease attack and structural collapse as it is with ourselves and other animals . |
| 11 | Maybe it is for myself I mind , rather than for him ! 'T IS not so much that Richard is bound for sanctuary — as that I am denied such privilege . |
| 12 | ‘ If any part of nature excites our pity , it is for ourselves we grieve , for there is eternal health and beauty . |
| 13 | For it is for ourselves and our own lost years that we grieve years , happy and sad , that will not come again . |
| 14 | It is for ourselves and our lost youth we weep . |
| 15 | But that is only a reason for saying that the value is not really there in the world if we presuppose a scientistic view of reality for which it is of itself necessarily ‘ motivationally inert ’ and cognizable in a manner which has nothing essentially to do with being attracted or repelled by it . |
| 16 | This is at its most practical in empathizing sufficiently to collect useful facts about a person but closing oneself to sympathy ; it is at its purest in vanity , basking in awareness from other viewpoints as long as it is of oneself . |
| 17 | In such a case it is not caught by s. 22 unless it is by itself a contract for sale [ of land ] … |
| 18 | As a medium it is supreme among the arts in its ability to portray the real world , hut it is in itself quite artificial , and it speaks to us by way of a pictorial language which first took shape during the early days of the silent cinema . |
| 19 | It is important to notice that the distinction between these two kinds of language ( the artificially constructed and the communicating ) is often more a question of the way we use or think about a particular stretch of language , than the way it is in itself . |
| 20 | ‘ Because it should never have happened the way it did , but if I was angry it was with myself , not you , because you needed to be courted , to be given time , and I gave you none . |
| 21 | They said that it was of himself and that the parcel contained a gun which had been taken to pieces so that he could carry it inconspicuously . |
| 22 | ‘ Why ? ’ he said , but it was to himself or another power , not to her . |
| 23 | For Emilia , as for himself , Dr Horrocks 's reassurance that miscarriage was a kind of mercy had brought no deep comfort , and Frere would not remind her of it , for he had quickly seen that , in some way he was far from comprehending , the loss was more secondary to her than it was to himself . |
| 24 | No , it was for himself to protect his dallta , as usual . |
| 25 | ‘ I asked if it was for himself or his mother . |
| 26 | When I painted it was for myself , I could afford the luxury of spending two years on a painting ; I did n't have to worry about whether anyone was interested in it or not or whether I would exhibit it in a commercial gallery or whether it would be sold . |
| 27 | She told herself she wanted to have her photograph taken so that she could send it to Aunt Sarah , but really it was for herself . |
| 28 | Perhaps just because she was Bob 's fiancée — but Tessa felt that it was for herself as well . |
| 29 | With every step he took , innocent as it might seem , trivial though it was in itself , he made retreat the more impossible . |
| 30 | ‘ A journey over it was in itself an education in railway history . |