Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You recognise the anger you feel against your parents , but at this stage there 's little point in contacting them if it 's only to unload your bitterness . |
| 2 | For some reason these thoughts of Emily sent her memory shooting back to the previous Friday in Vass 's office when he had brought up the subject of the new crèche and she had somehow ended up , almost aggressively , informing him that it was not her intention , ever , to remarry . |
| 3 | ‘ If you remember , you had told me it was over and I was … persuading you that it was n't , ’ he reminded her unwillingly . |
| 4 | This price gulf mirrors the problem with organic food : most shoppers are put off buying it because it 's too expensive . |
| 5 | If so , they can be used to boost the lighting by aiming it where it is most needed . |
| 6 | She had to get a grip on her ridiculous emotions , had to keep reminding herself that it was only the club he wanted . |
| 7 | This represented a move away from the department head receiving capitation and simply spending it because it was there . |
| 8 | ’ People think it 's a cruel way of doing it but it is n't really , because there 'll be shooting snaring and gasing , which is worse that the way we do it ’ ’ Foxes have to be controlled , fox hunting in the last 250 years have controlled the numbers beautifully ’ |
| 9 | What was the use of saying anything if it was n't what they wanted ? |
| 10 | Her old self would have seemed like light-years away as well if Mr Know-it-all did n't keep reminding her that it was n't . |
| 11 | I mean I 'm not worried about taking it but it 's just it 's just |
| 12 | Did you decide to eat it , or are you just taking it because it 's there … ? |
| 13 | I 'm perfectly capable of controlling myself if it 's absolutely necessary . ’ |
| 14 | It was made use of on 8 November by Cardinal Frings of Cologne precisely to call the Theological Commission into line , reminding it that it was there to carry out the wishes of the Council , not to determine what the Council should decide . |
| 15 | When we see a distant galaxy we 're not seeing it as it is today , we 're seeing it as it was a long time ago . |
| 16 | The galaxy shows several extraordinary features that may be connected with its extreme youth ( we are seeing it as it was when the universe was a third of the age that it is today ) . |
| 17 | But erm I do n't think that the town show perhaps I was I 'm prejudiced to the fact that , that we 'll be losing money rather than making it but it was n't anything like we put on for entertainment ! |
| 18 | Further , it makes me angry with myself to find that the perfectly natural and utterly unfair result is that I begin to dislike Paxford , no exercise of the will convincing me that it is not the unfortunate P. who is boring me with his views on everything under the sun . |
| 19 | Do you know , my psychiatrist spent hour after hour convincing me that it was all in the mind , that nobody really was out to get me , that the world was n't conspiring against me … |
| 20 | He says they have formed the notion that it is legal , he is telling them that it is not . |
| 21 | But basically you 're telling them that it 's almost an accomplished fact and erm they probably do n't have too much room for manoeuvre . |
| 22 | Switching the GR-1 on , the first thing you see is the LED telling you that it is indeed a Roland Guitar Synth . |
| 23 | Clarissa enquired from her bed if the gentleman had a black shirt on , and Charles was in the middle of telling her that it was n't a man at all , but a woman , well a girl , and quite a pretty one too if treasonable , when the record , a 78 of course , ended . |
| 24 | ‘ I keep telling myself that it is n't possible , that I imagined it . ’ |
| 25 | I kept telling myself that it was n't likely , that the man who shot at me could n't have known anything about my boat or he would n't have asked about my car , that I 'd met no one else on the entire expedition , and that if ever a place could be described as lonely and unvisited , it was Winter Marsh in mid-October . |
| 26 | Sparc laptop house , San Diego , California-based , RDI Corp , is finally getting around to telling us that it 's out of the kidding around stage and trying to become a real company . |
| 27 | One incident that has stuck with me was when he played us the Queen of the Night 's aria from The Magic Flute , telling us that it was notoriously difficult for singers as the top note reached ‘ F in alt ’ . |
| 28 | This stick had been used so often for beating me that it was now quite smooth . |