Example sentences of "it [pron] business " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I make it my business to know such things , young man . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ My aspirations were then as they are now to make it my business to make clothes . |
| 3 | ‘ I have made it my business to go after lost Leonardos now , ’ says Dr Pedretti , who worked closely with Kenneth Clark and took over his mantle as the world 's leading Leonardo expert . |
| 4 | I make it my business to acquaint myself with where objects properly belong in a house . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm afraid a quarter of a million pounds sterling paid out on your mother 's life makes it my business . ’ |
| 6 | I made it my business to get him off . ’ |
| 7 | You attempt to go near her again and I 'll make it my business to go across there … ’ |
| 8 | " You keep your hands off her , Mr Gristy , or you 'll make it my business , an " all . " |
| 9 | I 'd be failing in my duty if I did n't make it my business to know who she 's consorting with . ’ |
| 10 | I 've made it my business to . |
| 11 | ‘ I make it my business to be happy , ’ said Lili . |
| 12 | I know what 's going on , I do n't like it , and I 'm making it my business to see that it stops . " |
| 13 | ‘ Not really , but I 'm making it my business . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I made it my business to enquire just how serious your alleged relationship was . |
| 15 | Oh , I 'm not complaining — I 've always made it my business to ensure that the women I meet are the sort who understand the rules and know how to play the game . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't make it my business to hire fools , Miss Emerson . |
| 17 | Artists based outside London should certainly make it their business to locate each publication 's local ‘ stringer ’ whose job it is to reflect the scene in their own city or town . |
| 18 | The entire family of a widow , especially if she is still young , make it their business jealously to guard her brittle good name as a chaste woman . |
| 19 | Unlike the Greek historians , they made it their business as patriots to present a comprehensive survey of their country 's past . |
| 20 | They have always been notable sources of reference for serious scholars , of course , and there have always been just a few teachers and parents who have made it their business , over the years , to arrange educational visits both for themselves and for schoolchildren . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , we 'd been so public I suppose everyone thought they had a right to make it their business , and what 's more according to us they did . ’ |
| 22 | They have made it their business to gain real knowledge in the political sphere , because they belong to a great consumers ' organisation with the definite purpose in view of production for use rather than for profit , and of the development of a higher and nobler system of society . |
| 23 | Most people in the district made it their business to find out all about newcomers , who were kept under fairly strict scrutiny before they became accepted . |
| 24 | My son was murdered , and that means that there are certain facts the police will make it their business to discover . ’ |
| 25 | One or two of my friends made it their business to send me the cutting from the Paternoster Review . |
| 26 | The wretched state to which the company has been brought is nevertheless a tragedy , a tragedy for all the towns in America and across the world where IBM was until recently the biggest employer , a tragedy for all its surviving employees , who now have to operate in an environment pervaded with gloom and a sense of failure , a tragedy for all the data processing managers that made it their business to know all that could be known about the company and its products and culture , who now find their hard-earned knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset . |
| 27 | Many experts in the auction rooms make it their business to hang out with aristos waiting for the time Uncle Marmaduke 's Van Dyck has to bite the dust , so they are privy to the ‘ who 's just acquired a new mistress whose florist is Cartier ’ chatter . |
| 28 | Account men make it their business to learn everything they can about the client 's product and how it compares with others on the market , and a strategy is arrived at with the help of the researchers and planners , and sometimes with the creative team on the writing and art side . |
| 29 | Another career handicap is , Jo believes , her reluctance to join the Aussie Brat Pack social circuit where ambitious young actors make it their business to seize the limelight and worm their way into gossip and social columns . |
| 30 | They 'd hear it th th they would n't erm they 'd know through the agent , when the ships were coming they used to make it their business to go and find out you see but today th they even got telephones on the houses now so they can call 'em out . |