Example sentences of "[vb past] it be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reacting to the killings , the Nobel Peace Prize winner , Desmond Tutu , the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town , said it demonstrated it was time for all South Africa 's politicians ‘ for goodness sake to get off your butts and get on with the business of getting a new constitution for this country . |
| 2 | They giggled with bagels in a park strewn with dog-shit and broken bottles , and pretended it was New York . |
| 3 | Yes … ! ’ and felt him strip , the feel of his hair-roughened skin against hers driving her wild because now he was so real , so completely real , and so completely hers as they moved together naked , and she took the physical desire he expressed for her and pretended it was love , because it was the deepest display of emotion he had ever shown her . |
| 4 | I pretended it was Annie 's hair we was putting on the tree , and I called her a little angel , but she got upset about that , so I stopped . |
| 5 | Stella pretended it was Uncle Vernon in the coffin . |
| 6 | At the County Ground it 's Swindon against Bristol City … former skipper Colin Calderwood 's making a guest appearance as the club stage a benefit for good old Chalky White whose goals have helped the team to the very top … |
| 7 | But just then there was a sound in the hall , the door to outside shut , and Jasper , jumping up to look , reported it was Philip going down the street . |
| 8 | ‘ although the term Information Management is becoming more frequently used it 's definition is not widely understood as the effective production , storage , retrieval and dissemination of information in any form . |
| 9 | A long clearance from one the Leeds defenders found it 's way into the Crewe half where upon rolling out into touch the linesman controlled it neatly with his left and passed it back to the returning Crewe player with a neat right foot pass . |
| 10 | Afterwards through her affair with the Frenchman she is content because as she says ‘ the linnet found it 's way to the sky ’ . |
| 11 | You found it 's contact , yeah , good , erm |
| 12 | er we learnt from America that er a lot of birds that have been caught by cats , die , and everybody 's always assumed it 's shock but the Americans were doing some tests and they found it 's septicaemia from the cat 's teeth . |
| 13 | Ah , but you never found it was Berty 's son that co you know what he 's like . |
| 14 | when they found it was time to go back . |
| 15 | Welling were originally told £2.70 , but when young Welling fans arrived for the match they found it was £3.90 . |
| 16 | I was very worried when I found it was quads , because I assumed that there would just be more complications and we 'd end up with nothing again . |
| 17 | But he says the hospital changed it 's mind without telling him . |
| 18 | I was mystified and alarmed , then I suddenly twigged it was rain . |
| 19 | In fact , Peggy remembered her own mam saying as how there were certain folk , including herself , who believed it were Luther Reynolds ' fault when his second wife died of the fever . |
| 20 | Mr Major signalled it was business as usual when he welcomed new Welsh Secretary John Redwood at the morning 's Cabinet and told ministers they had important issues to deal with . |
| 21 | ‘ Brrrrr — ’ he said as the Green Man signalled it was time to cross . |
| 22 | And er last time I came it was Doctor and he changed |
| 23 | In the story she recalled it was slides of the life of Christ which had stilled the crowd . |
| 24 | It was so funny — as I walked along , rather disconsolate in the rain , at midday , I suddenly recollected it was Mayday , & knowing I ought to be bright & rejoicing I forthwith was so , at least for a time . |
| 25 | I later learnt it was cat . |
| 26 | This led many later Greek thinkers to regard musical theory as a branch of mathematics ( together with geometry , arithmetic , and astronomy it constituted what eventually came to be called the quadrivium ) , although this view was not universally accepted , the most influential of those who rejected it being Aristoxenus of Tarentum ( fourth century BC ) . |
| 27 | With its existence thus assumed it is knowledge of the external world which has to be explained . |
| 28 | ‘ I assumed it was Pinder going to see Pamela Berry . ’ |
| 29 | I assumed it was coincidence , seeing him in Wexford , and then finding him staying in the same hotel . |
| 30 | At least , she assumed it was Dick who spoke . |