Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | bloody hell , that must of been hard work that , they must of been at it all day |
| 2 | In it , she confronted him with evidence she 'd unearthed of a conspiracy against her and accused him of being behind it . |
| 3 | they travel up the stairs your , you knew this room and when , with being in it all the time you , you know you , your nose gets |
| 4 | Sgurr a'Ghlas Leathaid is the dominant peak in the view from Achnasheen , so there was a smug satisfaction in being on it at long last . |
| 5 | He seemed to be over it much quicker . |
| 6 | It meant driving up to the London Passport Office a few times and waiting around there for interminable periods , but I hoped that it was going to be worth it . |
| 7 | But he calculated that it had to be worth it , that such casualties would be minor compared with those which would result from a prolonged , slogging , hand-to-hand battle . |
| 8 | when you come and stay with me , she , anyway she , she would n't , well in the end I just said that 's it I 've had enough I switched the car off and grabbed hold of her I said , frogmarched her in the car I said come on , I 'm going to bed , Rudy 's ready for bed I said I want you with me , so that I can keep me eye on you if I have to sit up all bloody night , of course when she was with me I picked her up and got her strong again and I say you have to be worth it , you 're better off without him then she come round and then she 'd say I know I am I just go down |
| 9 | ‘ You really seem to be into it . |
| 10 | You know yo , it 's all these buttons is n't it , you 've got ta you 've really got to be into it . |
| 11 | Now I would not like to be without it . |
| 12 | This was to keep alive , in boys whose privileged background might have encouraged complacent acceptance rather than active pursuit of power , a keen appreciation of what it was like to have it , and what it was like to be without it . |
| 13 | ‘ One day you 'll simply have it , and then you wo n't remember what it was like to be without it . ’ |
| 14 | But at the moments you wish you were shot of the whole thing you know perfectly well that it 's precisely because you could n't endure to be without it , now you know about it , that you 've got to go through all this . |
| 15 | Bertrand Russell said the prerequisite of happiness is to be without it . |
| 16 | Ah well yes I would n't like to be without it now . |
| 17 | Just what does something have to be for it to be called a god ? |
| 18 | ‘ They asked to be on it and it 's not going to do us any harm to have Slash and Ozzy on the new album , is it ? |
| 19 | Beach are this week 's archetypal , one-syllable hopeful indie band , a four-song EP is the correct thing for them to be releasing , and titles like ‘ Burn ’ and ‘ Seeing ’ are the correct things to be on it , each one laced with all the right expansive guitar and aptly sweet and cottony ( female ) vocal . |
| 20 | As it was , some time was also wasted by internal bickering over the status of the panel and the right of some members to be on it . |
| 21 | To pinch a famous phrase , the road from Edinburgh to Sarajevo is a long one , and I am not sure how I came to be on it . |
| 22 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 23 | I know Councillor is quite happy to be on it , I would hope that Councillor is . |
| 24 | The roads are bumpy and uncertain and when they do get on a half decent stretch , they get pulled over by the police : they 're not supposed to be on it . |
| 25 | words that yo people are using I 've got now , so I do n't even think of it , it 's just there and I just talk normal that 's the idea really and if anybody asks you what you 're doing , then you tell them and it and you say , if you do n't wish to be on it , well |
| 26 | It 's not , it 's just like a little bead , it 's meant to be on it for that and |
| 27 | I want you put it on because I want my voice to be on it . |
| 28 | It 's to be formed , so far Mrs E Mrs have volunteered to be on it . |
| 29 | If you could have paper things … sometimes it seems to be putting out fresh plates , eating off them , washing them , and then putting them out again … some days you seem to be at it all day long . |
| 30 | you 've got to , you 've got to be at it all the time . |