Example sentences of "it [is] [det] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's that Ripper bloke they 're all going on about . |
2 | People around me stated ‘ Oh hell , it 's that poncy twat from The Smiths that loves flowers . ’ |
3 | It 's that back yard . |
4 | Ken himself always said that it was a modernized version of the kind of radio entertainment that Tommy Handley had brought with his famous wartime comedy series , ITMA ( ‘ It 's That Man Again' ) . |
5 | ‘ It 's that bastard Nazi who 's trapped . ’ |
6 | It 's on look , it 's that colour lipstick |
7 | Cos when he knocked on door and I thought oh I wonder if it 's that parcel midi hi-fi system I 'm |
8 | Unless it 's that cooker thing , I think her cooker 's there . |
9 | It 's that Mayday bank holiday . |
10 | Beneath it there 's a Sun cartoon of a chap being polled on his doorstep : ‘ I think Kinnock is marvellous , ’ he says , ‘ it 's that windbag husband of hers I ca n't stand . ’ ) |
11 | It 's that masking tape bloody company again in er , Newcastle |
12 | ‘ It 's that kangaroo juice he puts in the engine , ’ Terry teased her after she had started from outside the house in a series of jumps . |
13 | It 's that ballet dancer . |
14 | Now it 's all Boy Scout stuff and bivouacs and tents . |
15 | It 's all evening weekends you know . |
16 | NME 's punk enfant terrible Tony Parsons in 1992 : now it 's all Apple Mac and Armani , then it was chiefly amphetamine and aggression |
17 | shorthand it 's all shorthand notes . |
18 | it 's all office work |
19 | Another , a business woman , often under considerable pressure , managed to come to an arrangement with her voluble but good-humoured mother , that she could terminate any of their telephone conversations speedily if necessary , without giving offence , simply by saying , ‘ Well , I 'm afraid it 's all action stations here now , so I 'll have to say goodbye ’ ; and it worked remarkably well . |
20 | It 's the same with most women I said , and it 's all paper talk . |
21 | Meanwhile , Rudge dismissed recent speculation linking him with the managerial vacancy at Bristol Rovers by insisting : ‘ It 's all paper talk . ’ |
22 | In Salvador , it 's all death squads , guerilleros , sombreros . |
23 | It 's all ground cover and |
24 | Wonder if it 's this road surf- there 's a feeling a bit of vibration on the steering then . |
25 | there is a shock wave in the pipe , it 's this shock wave or pulse which triggers the timing light . |
26 | ‘ It 's this tax business , ’ Paul explained , ‘ this levy the Khedive is proposing . |
27 | It 's this island race mentality : the paranoia , the xenophobia , having no land-bridge for twelve thousand years . |
28 | ‘ It 's either Seaside Cottage , Fair Dell or Braeside . ’ |
29 | ‘ It 's some master plan , that I 'm certain of . |
30 | ‘ Some people tend to think it 's some faraway problem that will never come to anything , but it destroyed human decency before and it can again if we do n't stand up to it . |