Example sentences of "be [conj] it [be] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my second outing with the boots I was trying to assess how watertight they were as it was raining heavily . |
| 2 | What is extraordinary is that it is taking off in England — the land of the Stiff Upper Lip , where the primary emotion often seems to be fear of embarrassment . |
| 3 | One view of the overall employment implications of new technology is that it is bringing about the collapse of work . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ The picture we are getting is that it is spreading nationally . |
| 5 | The IS coordinator , for example , suggested that : the only problem is that it 's developing too fast . |
| 6 | Well that 's cos it 's going down . |
| 7 | what 's if it 's pouring down with rain ? |
| 8 | So it 's if it 's coming up |
| 9 | That 's because it 's going round in a circle — like the Shuttle , and me on my space walk . |
| 10 | but that was n't with flood water coming over , that was because it was coming up the drains , cos it could n't drain into the river |