Example sentences of "and it [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm on top of this situation and it 's under control .
2 It 's from a stone age and it 's between four and five thousand years old .
3 Well I think , I think what you what you got to do , and it 's between you two to continue to press that , and and chivvy Bill erm erm er
4 Yeah but you say to her that they 're always on about how s Shrimpy ca n't do anything for himself , and it 's between Emma , it 's not between it was al even Scott said to me at the beginning oh it 's not between me , it 's nothing to do with me , it 's between Emma and Scott .
5 The foreword says ‘ A sad story with a happy ending ’ , and it 's about a little baby who has no Mummy and so goes off to find one .
6 It 's called The Bridge to Nowhere and it 's about a man in total desolation , totally alone .
7 ‘ The more I 'm into music and the more I 'm into guitar playing , I realise it is n't about how great a guitar player you are ; it 's about writing songs and it 's about fitting guitar and voice together .
8 It 's called The Bridge to Nowhere and it 's about a man in total desolation , totally alone .
9 There 's another item of news , which erm , er Ron only got on the sixteenth August and it 's about the pre-congress pensioner 's march and rally , now the congress is held in Glasgow , so I think we were n't going to that one anyway , but it just giving details of erm the arrangements for the pensioner 's march which we usually have , we usually attend if it 's in the South anywhere , but that 's just for information .
10 And it 's about the easiest piece of cooking you 're ever likely to do .
11 The other is tapered at one end at the bottom , and it 's about the size of a tennis ball .
12 And the whole process is made as simultaneously agonising and amazing as it could be — you labour to give birth , that 's the right word all right , and it 's about as ghastly as possible and then at the end there 's this absolutely wonderful feeling , that the conspiracy has never hinted at , when you hold it and see it and you suddenly realise there 's a whole new emotion you did n't know anything about .
13 But I think that the greatest tribute of all that can be paid to Peggy , and I feel sure it would come from her members and it 's this , and it 's basically what the trade union movement is all about and it 's about representing ordinary people at the shop floor because whenever anybody asks Peggy to do anything for them , to represent them , she 's always the first one there .
14 Er it 's er it 's a ex W D lens , after wartime they sold these things they sold them in catalogues and I sent of for this one , and it 's about a stone and a half in weight .
15 Our party is about morolity morality , morality and justice and truth and it 's about representing our class , That 's what we have got to get back to win the next election .
16 Er and it 's about the methodical approach to training .
17 And it 's about the free electrical checks for electrical gear .
18 Jenny has given me notes on , on one issue here which I must admit I have n't had a chance to read yet and it 's about house style , about both manual .
19 Yeah well I 'm , I 'm gon na try and get the final year lecture for Tuesday sorted actually on Saturday and erm it 's usually , it 's usually Guy but I think I 'm doing it this week , yeah , because I 've got quite a few to do on things like racist in the media and Guy 's mate Dennis has just written a book and he 's given me a manuscript of it and it 's about how racist psychology is which is
20 erm , and it 's about what twelve pound now , eleven pound ?
21 And it 's about a five minute up to Holdam market on a Sunday is n't it ?
22 And it 's about that wide .
23 I 'm play and it 's about Scrooge .
24 Right , and it 's about A there okay ?
25 it 's called Father of the Bride and it 's about this wedding kind of thing
26 And it 's about that deep .
27 admitted that she did n't know and it 's about that department what 's
28 Professor Laurence Learner is an English scholar at the university , but he 's also well known for his verse , and it 's about his verse I want to talk to him today .
29 Yet , take an accident like that hair in the gate , put it together with the coincidental gaze of a ghost , and it 's as if Fonda really has come back to life .
30 He 's just not there any longer ; and it 's as if he 'd never been , for none of the things he said are heard any longer either ; it 's a bad dream , and the Leader does n't have to sleep through it any more . ’
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