Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] it [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura reckons , ’ she continued , a salacious gleam in her toffee-brown eyes , ‘ old Po-face-that 's what they all calls him cos he never smiles-had been having it off with that secretary for weeks . |
| 2 | They 'd been feeding it down at the where they give the horses |
| 3 | Her mother identified it as a wayfaring tree and she 'd been cutting it back during the summer and it did n't seem to mind but she 'd be very grateful for any information about the wayfaring tree which presumably she 'd like to keep and continue to grow in her garden . |
| 4 | She had been covering it up for years . |
| 5 | Ward 's side had been fighting it out on the streets with the IPLO 's Dublin-based Army Council in a row over drug money . |
| 6 | Somebody had apparently given her the matchbook and she had been carrying it around with her ever since . ’ |