Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 2 | What I do n't quite understand is what was the legal basis on which they went ahead with this despite the objection , presumably as some of the trustees as to what was being done , I could hear we 're talking of er a deficit of one point seven billion appearing or it a surplus disappearing into a deficit , which is actually four times as much has disappeared out of Maxwell . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's an art to tackling and it 's nothing to do with the elbows in faces , eye-poking , testicle-grabbing and raking opponents down their Achilles tendons that he talks about . |
| 4 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 5 | It keeps occurring and it 's called ‘ morphic resonance ’ ; something is simply in the air and more than one person picks it up . |
| 6 | Again this causes blurring and it 's difficult to see near details . |
| 7 | It would be perverse , then , to deny that very exciting things have been happening and it is no business of this chapter to disparage these remarkable advances in understanding of the brain . |
| 8 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 9 | ‘ He 'd pretend it was n't happening and it would still be a shock to him . ’ |
| 10 | The problem there I would suggest is the timescale between the things happening and it getting to the regulator and being digested . |
| 11 | Something was happening and it was so pleasurable she did n't want it to fade . |
| 12 | I would suggest is the timescale between these things happening and it getting to the regulator and being digested . |
| 13 | Well , I think we should tell national office that this is , you know , this is happening and it 's not on ! |
| 14 | It was too hot for sunbathing and it would still be stuffy below decks . |
| 15 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 16 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 17 | I 've learnt a lot , my job depends on me driving and it 's made me realise how much I can drink , how much I ca n't drink , what I can drink and realising about road accidents . |
| 18 | This method is called density slicing and it was the technique used in the generation of the colour image shown on the front cover of this book . |
| 19 | I was n't going to see Morrissey and at that point the whole of Finsbury Park could have been laughing and it would not have mattered . |
| 20 | And I was , I was laughing and it , everyone was going because it was Patrick Swayze but I was still seeing Whoopie Goldberg ! |
| 21 | Traditionally , hill sheep farmers have sold store lambs to lowland farmers for fattening and it is the latter who should benefit from the variable premia . |
| 22 | This evening 's heavy rain will clear away with the winds dying but it will stay pretty cloudy with the odd shower . |
| 23 | And they 'll check that out for you and we 'll see what 's happening but it 's just in case there 's any arthritis or anything like that that 's |
| 24 | I may be bragging but it er we had a wonderful day ! |
| 25 | The expansion of forestry by means of a policy of attrition and isolation of farms is occurring but it is not necessarily a process which in the long term will lead to a reasonable balance of land use . |
| 26 | Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time . |
| 27 | I do n't mind walking but it 's I get the shopping |
| 28 | It was emptying but it 's started filling up again . |
| 29 | Either the place was worth searching or it was n't . |
| 30 | It is very important to keep on happy and good terms with the family that are living and it is extremely sad when the death of a parent who loved all the children should be an unwitting source of family rifts . |