Example sentences of "it [be] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it been Dierdriu 's son ? |
| 2 | He thought of the pattern of his visit so far ; the revelation of Rose McGarry 's death ; the discovery of the swan ; Jos 's warning ( had it been Jos 's strong arm holding him back in the dream ? ) ; and this most recent sign , which at the very least told him that someone had entered his room , his own sanctuary . |
| 3 | Two of the best-remembered things in it are Emma 's adulterous drive in the curtained cab ( a passage found especially scandalous by right-thinkers ) , and the very last line of the novel — ‘ He has just received the Legion of Honour ’ — which confirms the bourgeois apotheosis of the pharmacist Homais . |
| 4 | COULD it be Edinburgh 's fourth university , or Leith 's first ? |
| 5 | Yeah , thought it were Wendy 's children . |
| 6 | But they thought it were Wendy 's daughter ! |
| 7 | But suppose it were Berowne 's ? |
| 8 | It were Bill 's older brother . |
| 9 | Oh it were Julie 's birthday yesterday and she did n't tell us . |
| 10 | I stroke my beard , as if it were Timmy 's brow , trying to soothe myself to sleep . |
| 11 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
| 12 | If only it were Lorrimer 's cadaver which would be cradled in porcelain on the post-mortem table next day , laid out for ritual evisceration . |
| 13 | The appearance of a specific theory of gravitation in the resolution of the problem , even if it were Einstein 's own , seemed a trifle odd . |
| 14 | I think with it being Tranmere 's first competitive game in Europe it is something people do n't want to miss . |
| 15 | Even a nervous pull into the greenside bunker with his third shot at the par-five 18th , which was to open the door for Stewart and Olazabal , could not prevent it being Langer 's day . |
| 16 | He 's been to say that Bernard has put his wrist out , and it being Danny 's day off he went for Bill , but Bill 's gone over to see his mother in Consett , so he says , what about it , sir ? ’ |
| 17 | Right , it 's Christopher 's turn then , you 've had one turn . |
| 18 | Well you did the I poured your , the water into your cup so it 's Christopher 's turn to feed them . |
| 19 | It 's Christopher 's turn to read . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's Cheryl 's feelings that count . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's Cheryl 's decision . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's Cheryl 's feelings that count . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's Cheryl 's decision . |
| 24 | It 's Brad 's moment . |
| 25 | Production 's usual attitude is ‘ any typeface you like , as long as it 's Times ' . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's Sabrina 's . ’ |
| 27 | Then it 's Alison 's insistence on doing the washing-up straight after the meal . |
| 28 | it 's Sally 's hair band |
| 29 | No it 's Sally 's , it 's Sally 's . |
| 30 | No it 's Sally 's , it 's Sally 's . |