Example sentences of "it be [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's good no I tell you why I thought they were crap cos you gave me an album and it had the had Dancing in the Moonlight and that was good but all the other songs on it were really shit . |
| 2 | Er I 'd want to be seen if it were only back of , back of |
| 3 | It were only quarter past one and I finished at and I felt really |
| 4 | Mind you , I do n't I , I think it were yesterday morning I oh no it were Monday morning . |
| 5 | I do recall Jimmy Hill spouting on about it being all seater and anti-hooligan . |
| 6 | But , it 's rather dad that it will neither visit London nor the big towns . |
| 7 | I think it 's rather dandy he 's finished off , he 's put this white erm stuff you know what they squeeze from now . |
| 8 | It 's already part of the family . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's already dawn . |
| 10 | I 've barely had time to wipe the blood off my axe after my last battle and it 's already time to hack my way through the next trail ! |
| 11 | But it 's strictly smalltime . |
| 12 | In Jamaica , it 's strictly ragga , and the occasional old tune , pumped through new silicon chips and piezo horns , sounds like ragga . |
| 13 | ‘ The way I see it , it 's probably part of some cosmic master-plan . |
| 14 | It 's probably kind of true ! ’ |
| 15 | Your skin may now be soft and smooth but it 's probably lily white too . |
| 16 | ‘ I mean , ’ says Howard quite bluntly , ‘ it 's probably time to go , is n't it ? ’ |
| 17 | erm it 's probably sort of fifteen per cent better than it was last year . |
| 18 | But in general the people who are doing some of those things , a lot of it 's probably escapism certain type , complete break from their work . |
| 19 | ‘ If there 's anything we 're trying to aspire to it 's probably Island Records . |
| 20 | It 's probably news time fairly soon . |
| 21 | You know it 's neither judgement nor luck . |
| 22 | Otherwise it 's mostly sex — I hope you 're not easily shocked . ’ |
| 23 | It 's mostly chipboard based , but I did buy an old 60s wardrobe quite cheaply which I cut up to make a computer work station . |
| 24 | Erm but I would say it 's mostly maintenance trades . |
| 25 | It it 's mostly sort of things about energy . |
| 26 | Well our pits there 's a lot of water but it 's , it 's mostly body sweat and s I do get some water off a , a machine that I drive . |
| 27 | And the others could have almost anything , but I think it 's mostly cereal . |
| 28 | Well , it 's mostly vanity . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's either lunch , or an afternoon of — ’ |
| 30 | it 's like , it 's either king or knight something , knights or kings something has won a race |