Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same sentence is now seen to do different things , and according to what it is doing , the answer is more or less suitable : |
| 2 | I think we shall find ourselves distinguishing between what it is to want what we have n't got and what it is to want what we have got . |
| 3 | When you 're when you 're talking about what it 's cost us to get him those bearings |
| 4 | But when the state collects taxes in order to provide some of its citizens with services which they were capable of obtaining for themselves it is perpetrating a grave act of injustice on the taxpayers . |
| 5 | So are the members of the Shropshire TEC board , who also run demanding businesses yet give much time to developing the TEC and working towards what it is trying to achieve , especially for young people in Shropshire . |
| 6 | Managing director , Chris Dawes , says the company decided that it should be concentrating on what it was doing with the box , rather than the box itself . |