Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] it [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I value my privacy and I am prepared to defend it all costs . |
| 2 | Erm ha having gone through that you moved on er and gave out your business card fi first and then the buyer 's guide erm do n't know whether you 're happy doing it that way or whether it 's better round the other way , I I , you , you tend to think if you give somebody the buyer 's guide first when they start to look at it you give them your business card and take it away , perhaps if you do it the other way round they might s start reading the buyer 's guide |
| 3 | It must have been awkward getting it all the way to Hochhauser from London . |
| 4 | I 'm only glad that we 've been able to sort it all out so quickly . |
| 5 | It must be awful to have it all taken out of one 's hands and have nothing to do but wait — and for what ? |
| 6 | Freud seems to be willing to put it this way , and then to want to insist again that it was an actual deed , otherwise the impact is immediately lost once we allow ourselves to think that it did not happen . |
| 7 | This having early in the days this not be impossible to get it all typed up . |
| 8 | Having worked so hard to start a business , it would be heartbreaking to see it all collapse due to some unexpected misfortune such as an accident , fire or theft . |
| 9 | You could do that and it would be easy to do it that way then to do it with time sheets . |
| 10 | I never thought I 'd be able to remember it all . |
| 11 | Ideally , to be honest I would like a diamorphine maintenance course , but I do n't know if that 's possible these days to pick up a prescription once or twice a week and be able to do it that way instead of having the hassle of having to go on the street . |
| 12 | But you might be able to do it some other way . |
| 13 | A : ( with injured innocence ) I 'm just asking whether you 'll be able to do it this afternoon . |
| 14 | I do n't suppose I 'll be able to take it all in for a while . |
| 15 | What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardens photo-call , carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead . |
| 16 | ‘ She telephoned the studio to say she would n't be able to make it this weekend . ’ |
| 17 | What shall we do in the weekend ? , are you gon na be able to make it this time if we do something ? |
| 18 | I should be able to tie it all up tomorrow . ’ |
| 19 | By predating everything else , particle physics may yet be able to underpin it all . |
| 20 | Only he wo n't be able to get it all off . |
| 21 | Perhaps , yeah we might find that by the time we got to might not be able to get it all on . |
| 22 | The necessary contact could partly be maintained by means of meetings and round-table discussions of the kind so successfully organised at Uig for the Arkleton Trust , but it would be desirable to give it some more concrete , institutional form as well . |
| 23 | Being able to rationalise everything when you come off the field is , I suppose , part of being able to enjoy it all . |
| 24 | But he is already top salesman in his company and dreams of being able to give it all up to start his own small business . |
| 25 | This was the worst part as by now everyone was tired , hungry , needed a long hot bath and still had a long drive home ; however spirits were cheerful and by the 29th May we were ready to do it all again . |
| 26 | And the slick export companies and landowners are anxious to keep it that way in order to retain total flexibility in hiring , firing and wage levels . |
| 27 | Most people only have shingles once in a lifetime but it is possible to have it several times . |
| 28 | Naff plebeian drugs , junk food , hoary sexism , a love of trash culture … hip hop and hardcore share all these , but where hip hop still has a guiding notion of cool ( both music and style are minimal ) neo-hardcore is prepared to LET IT ALL HANG OUT horribly ; the corset of cool has been ruptured and all manner of banished and forbidden rock memories have sprawled free … grotesquerie embraced as a defiant gesture against the sound track of yuppie culture — sleek , chic , designer pop-soul . |
| 29 | Britain 's is content to debate it all after the decisions have been made , and then pass the lot virtually unamended . |
| 30 | It is hard to describe it all to people who were n't there . |