Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't I do n't I do n't I do n't think I do n't think anybody is denying that but it 's clearly not worked . |
| 2 | It 's looking good but it 's down to us They 've convinced dealers that they have something worth selling … even in a recession . |
| 3 | Time and again their commitment to doing a good job proved stronger than their commitment to looking good and it was out of this honesty that many of the insights ( if such they be ) in this book arose . |
| 4 | I said and there 's there 's me panicking like I said I said I 'm going grey as it is now I said without worrying about |
| 5 | Getting better but it 's just this gritty thing in the back of my eye , I mean I |
| 6 | In The Family , Sex and Marriage he was careful to retain an open mind on affective individualism , emphasizing first that it was not necessarily the way of the future , family change not being linear , and second , that it did not necessarily result in greater happiness than other forms of family organization . |
| 7 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 8 | He knows he is doing wrong but it is just that , in certain situations of moral dilemma he has to act in ways that involve violence . |
| 9 | The title ‘ Futility ’ has a double meaning : at first , the futility of the attempts to rouse the soldier and in the latter half , the futility of all the complexity of the earth and the effort put into achieving this when it is just destroyed . |
| 10 | Deterioration of the second pier was increasing fast and it was unfortunately closed in 1982 . |
| 11 | Stroke the Luminescent Mousse quickly through your hair and comb through , making sure that it is well distributed at the roots . |
| 12 | Any employee who has charge of Company property is responsible for taking all reasonable precautions in making sure that it is not lost , stolen or damaged . |
| 13 | ‘ Their original intentions were to lessen the humiliation experienced by the victim in a rape trial and to send a symbolic liberating and educational message to the rest of society , advising all that it was no longer acceptable to assault sexually ( or batter , or ultimately to subjugate ) women . ’ |