Example sentences of "it be old [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Next door , it 's old toys they 're after , the sort of thing most of us will remember from the toy cupboard of old . |
2 | It 's old ladies who show all the signs of a long life on subsistence , though they would n't necessarily see themselves as having been poor , because their husbands were n't necessarily poor . |
3 | It 's new but it 's old colours , it 's old stock |
4 | ‘ It 's old folks and neighbours that have gone into the houses , and it will be children who will benefit in years to come from the jobs that are created . |
5 | But America , however sleek the surface , is a massively antiquated contraption in which the wheels grind slowly , and in which it is old pols , not callow meritocrats , who understand the working of the gears . |
6 | I think you know , Lincolnshire has done a dam good job for the people in Lincolnshire whether it in roads , whether it be old peoples homes , or whether it be in schools , whether it be in fire stations , police stations , I admit to where one could say across the board , they could compare , that they could compare , they might compare they might live in one area and work in another . |
7 | Very quickly , Polanski and Nicholson became darlings of the west coast film and rock-music communities , who were also selecting the new heroes of the screen — anti-heroes in fact — because it was old values that had kept those handsome , pristine hulks of the last generation at the top and old values were now strictly taboo amongst the young and trendy . |