Example sentences of "it be all " in BNC.

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1 Where 's it been all these years ?
2 The workers who defend it are all sisters and all sterile .
3 Would it be all self taught or or how
4 Yeah but why would it be all of a sudden need to turn it up now ?
5 If it were all as simple as this , and if all fossil bones passed through these stages without modification , this book could finish right here , but unfortunately it is not so .
6 The man who used to ride around Knockglen as if it were all part of his estate ; that was Eve 's grandfather , Major Charles Westward .
7 It would be a tragedy for the aircraft preservation and restoration movement as a whole if it were all scrapped , and so it is with great sadness that after a great deal of thought they are agreed ( having been partners both in business and as husband and wife ) that the time has come to take life a bit easier and retire from the business .
8 In it were all kinds of animals and birds .
9 And you , Molly Coddle ’ — he smiled at his daughter as though it were all , in some comic way , entirely her fault — ‘ you were in an awful pink plastic carry-cot in the back seat and you never even woke up ! ’
10 And er we the tea the class All the boys It were all boys er we we had to carry Each carry a chair up to the new school .
11 And there was a , a book , I always regret not pho photostatting it , where one of the people who write on health er made the point that you start with the full page in the book , and the outer band of it were all pictures of the world , and then it was erm a particular sort of location in a town , and then it was a house and garden and then it was a room in a house .
12 And the same when it came to er subtracting , you see , it were all done on the board and you copied it onto your plate On to your slate .
13 Er maybe half and hour history and half an hour geography and er science er but it were all ele very elementary stuff .
14 ‘ And if it were all true , do you really think I would have admitted it ?
15 as if it were all to begin again …
16 And director Patrick Garland gives these tender moments ( notably Lockwood West wistfully singing ‘ It Were All Green Hills ’ ) as much emphasis as the noisy production numbers .
17 Oh it were all camp .
18 to fetch all badness , I mean it were all five of those bottle or four up in London
19 The contract is back again , I done all this erm water pipe it were all gravel in there sunk into the ground you know big hole in the ground !
20 do er , it were all wallpaper
21 Yeah I went and got it yesterday but they 'd had a break in and you should 've seen it they 'd smashed the front door , it were all smashed in .
22 And , no it were all bloody big grey streaks and that on me , it were on the sheets .
23 It 's all in a good cause .
24 it 's all impersonation — in the absence of a self , one impersonates selves , and after a while impersonates best the self that best gets one through .
25 Undoubtedly one of the best ways the overseas student has of seeing what is required in British theatre training is to apply for one of the summer schools offered by the drama schools , and find out what it 's all about before committing him- or herself to a long and expensive stay .
26 And it 's all so wonderful and idyllic .
27 But it 's all I ever wanted to do .
28 It 's all experience and that 's what you have to have a lot of before getting your own way about anything .
29 Assistant head of the hotel school , John Staples , adds : ‘ They wo n't be experts but they 'll have a good understanding of what it 's all about .
30 It 's all her fault . ’
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