Example sentences of "be [pron] [verb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Am I to take it that is the general male philosophy , that shrug-it-all-off attitude ? ’ |
| 2 | Now , am I to take it that sort of appeal will have a very low priority , I mean , how about Oxfam for example ? |
| 3 | What do I hope will happen ? " and " Why am I doing it this way ? " |
| 4 | Oh yes , oh yes , oh mum went there for years and years every Saturday yeah , and as I say the wagonettes used to erm be stationed up by Albion Street , to take er shopping and , and er and Rushbrooks used to be the big confectioners then , that 's on the , it used to be on the corner of erm Albion , well there 's a market there , an indoor market now is n't there yeah they were the er the big confectioners Rushbrooks , and er bakers and confectioners and er all the barrels of flour used to be , you could see all that going in you know but er I do n't know whether it is , am I making it interesting , is it interesting for you ? |
| 5 | There you are I got it right for |
| 6 | Or are you taking it all a little too personally ? |
| 7 | Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : If any new hospitals are built in Wales , such as the East Glamorgan hospital , will the funding for those hospitals , in terms of capital costs , be entirely met by the Welsh Office or , as a result of last week 's disclosure in Construction News , are we to take it that Treasury guidelines to introduce private sector money into such building will mean that the commitment from the Welsh Office will be less ? |
| 8 | We thinking well why are we doing it this way ? |
| 9 | But planners are paid to be pessimistic , and for the time being they felt it prudent to assume that American assistance in a crisis — imperative though it would be — was likely to be forthcoming only after an unpredictable interval . |
| 10 | I was longing to get back to it , or perhaps its associations with Toby were what lent it this sudden magnetism . " |
| 11 | The tapes are erased afterwards what they do is somebody types it all up and erm then they build it all up on a computer . |
| 12 | Then Sophie had added : ‘ It is she makes it beautiful , no ? ’ begging Teodor to agree at once . |
| 13 | Right that 's it makes it milky . |
| 14 | ( It was also , of course , disgusting and deplorable : that 's what made it such a success . ) |
| 15 | That 's what makes it worse . |
| 16 | And it stretches all the tissue on this inside , and that 's what makes it sore . |
| 17 | Part of my job as a media commentator is to slag off other journalists — it 's what makes it all worthwhile — and I 've put knees into the groins of such eminences as Alastair Burnet , Peter Sissons and Donald Trelford , without so much as a raised eyebrow in Kingsland or City roads . |
| 18 | ‘ Absolutely , warts and all ; that 's what makes it good fun . |
| 19 | The point for Kojak will not be the relevance of the information , nor the nature of it , but merely that he has it and others do n't — that 's what makes it valuable and Kojak a computer stud . |
| 20 | Every day is different , that 's what makes it interesting . |
| 21 | I think that 's what started it all off I think she 's running off . |
| 22 | This , I think is what makes it possible for this story to have a positive if not a ‘ sunset ’ ending . |
| 23 | The response is out of all proportion to the stimulus , and this is what makes it special , distinguishing it from occasions where a cat merely withdraws after being scolded . |
| 24 | We do n't know what 's going to happen next — which is what makes it dramatic . |
| 25 | Only later were , was one to find it possible to develop a small comedy action or a small dramatic action on the screen , this would be around nineteen hundred and three , four , five , about five or six years from the beginning , that films of this sort would make . |
| 26 | What was your priorities when you were doing that , what were your priorities as far as , was it to get it all down or was it just to get in down in a particular way what what do you see as the priorities when you were talking about doing it ? |
| 27 | None of the villagers would go near the pool , which was what made it such a suitable place for a rendezvous . |
| 28 | This was not snoring but a kind of clicking , irregular and sporadic — that was what made it irritating — and liable to start when least expected . |