Example sentences of "[pron] it be [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Many of you , I know , believe Smott 's substitution after four minutes was because he was out of his depth , but I can assure you it is all part of my master plan which I am painstakingly developing on a game-by-game basis .
2 Oh god , mind you it is all relative is n't it ?
3 I can tell you it 's all expenses paid , it 's a fabulous trip , and er , we 'll tell you how perhaps , you can be on that plane to Sydney with us , later in the programme .
4 I tell him it 's another shooter , and he gives so little reaction I think he believes it .
5 But if there was one thing the past weeks had taught her it was that work was an antidote to worry .
6 They it was all piece work , there .
7 And er they were still whistling and calling , so I went up on to the top of the bank and they it was this plantation that fell down in the warren and caught fire .
8 For them it is all part of a culture and religion which must be tolerated .
9 It 's a a a re a really nice restaurant but you can pick all your food raw and they just , there 's a chef cooking , and you just get one of these plates , you can have as many helpings as you want , they serve you a cold starter and a hot starter but there 's a buffet that 's about half the size of our club and one side of it it 's all fish on a wet fish slab , and steak , and veal , and chicken and so there 's every sort of meat you can think of , and you can pick a wooden platter full of it , so you go and give it the chef with this number that they give you and then they come serve you with whatever you want .
10 So it it 's yon end .
11 you know I mean I 've looked through the parasitology books I 've got about two of 'em it 's all cestodes and lima luminaries and and worse the jargon in biology
12 In this and in future legislation , it seems that the public interest almost becomes whatever it is that competition promotes .
13 Come on , Doctor : have n't you short-circuited the mad scientist 's gizmo yet , or bamboozled the megalomaniac survivor of an ancient race of warrior wizards , or whatever it is this time ?
14 And , whatever it was that drahá meant , she liked that too .
15 ‘ I think you do not appreciate what it is that space contains . ’
16 Let's , we 've got to look at what it is that management are making a mess of .
17 Only here what must be put squarely , if not exactly clearly , before the reader is what it is that will after all betray the murderer .
18 I know what it is this time , though , love . ’
19 As I say , you owe me something , and if you 're determined to go on pretending you do n't know that , I 'll be delighted to tell you what it is some time soon , but not right now .
20 my personal view was that we , we should have some form of , two things , one is communicating the realities of the situation , it 's a fairly new market , there was a lot of competitors in the market , coming into the market , there was a lot of confusion in the market there was a lot of confusion in the market as to exactly what it was that customer could buy , there was also a lot of confusion of as to , cos there are different types of customer , and over sixty five , there are about seven different categories , there was a need for someone and I believe it should therefore have been the market leader at that time to if you want to establish principals , establish what they , this was in the market and establish what the elderly would be , would , should look for when purchasing a retirement apartment .
21 It is important to grasp what it was that peace activists thought they were trying to prevent .
22 For it turned out that Pound 's poetry — The Cantos certainly but much of the earlier work also — could be understood and enjoyed only by those who had attended to Pound s criticism enough to grasp what it was that Pound was trying to do , or conceived himself to be doing , in his poetry .
23 ‘ All right , then , tell me what it was this friend of yours had me do for him , and I 'll tell you whether I can do ‘ something similar ’ . ’
24 and there was one week that Pat came , because I used to get the meat off of the van by the gate then , and I do n't know what it was this week , but I bought the meat ready minced and when I come to give it to you , I knew there 'd be complaints , I do n't know what we were having
25 So that 's nearer than , what it were half hour ago
26 This is where Alan Davies came in , and if the latest coach 's previous career with England B , the Midlands and Nottingham had proved anything it was that pragmatism — what you have to do — comes before even the noblest notion of what you would like to do .
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