Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] it [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 2 | And as they were fretting about it being nicked , it turned up in their own backyard . |
| 3 | As soon as the offices and shops closed at noon , the square and all the streets leading off it were filled with bicycles , then as now the best way of getting about in Parma . |
| 4 | While this work was going on it was observed by two Parish Councillors that the concrete holding the seat in place had been smashed and the seat itself removed . |
| 5 | While this work was going on it was observed by two Parish Councillors that the concrete holding the seat in place had been smashed and the seat itself removed . |
| 6 | This is because protein and fat act as a chemical block to alcohol , leading to it being absorbed from the stomach into the bloodstream more slowly . |
| 7 | Many of the 35 replies gave details of the circumstances leading to it being written , their experiences and hopes . |
| 8 | When speeding along it is folded and lies in a deep groove along the back . |
| 9 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 10 | There were a few cancelled bookings for children and Darlington Conservative councillor Peter Jones went on Radio Four last week , calling for it be banned from the Civic , where it is due on March 31 . |
| 11 | An object with what appeared to be a gun barrel pointing from it was found 30 yards from where Mr Peter Jowett 's body lay . |
| 12 | Then in the late fifth , or early sixth , century the settlement moved northwards ; it was smaller , of briefer duration and more dispersed , and the cemetery belonging to it was defined by Romano-British ditches . |
| 13 | ‘ Markham received help for two years , but with new applicants coming along it was felt he could not receive a third grant . ’ |
| 14 | Rape does not provoke such strong emotions in policemen , and their resistance to dealing with it is expressed more in terms of the greater competence policewomen are supposed to have . |
| 15 | The advent of the success is so delightful that all thoughts of learning from it are banished . |
| 16 | And one day she had this other map , and I do n't know where she got that either , or what happened to it She only showed it me the once , and after that whenever I mentioned it she did n't know what I was talking about It was made of something absolutely rigid but incredibly thin . |