Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [subord] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Frye 's left calf and foot remained protruding from the bottom of the wall , shuddering slightly as it was drawn in . |
| 2 | The most common is the all-too-familiar cystitis — the bladder could be inflamed and JoJo may think it needs emptying even when it is only partly full , with the result that she could be effectively ‘ caught short ’ . |
| 3 | A few minutes of brief activity later , he was on his way again , the needle climbing steadily till it was hovering on the 120 m.p.h. mark . |
| 4 | Grangemouth was also developing rapidly although it was the early part of the present century before substantial tonnages were handled . |
| 5 | Because the senior members on the flats that have been living here since it was put up , when they came to live on complex , they reckoned it was the place to come and live . |
| 6 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 7 | I wish to thank Andrew and Margaret Hewson , my literary agents , for their unfailing support and their honest and constructive criticisms throughout the writing of this sequence ; and also Sylvia Kantaris , who read Lying Together while it was in progress and offered excellent suggestions . |
| 8 | Remember that you 're going abroad because it 's different so please do n't expect it to be the same as home ! |
| 9 | Coming up to my house pretty soon but I 'm not going there cos it 's shit . |
| 10 | Apart from pure nostalgia , perhaps this is because in the ‘ old days ’ it was fairly easy to look at a faulty circuit , identify components used for specific functions , replace them and get the set going again whether it was commercially or home-made . |
| 11 | Well I 'm not moving only because it 's the actually there is a bit more room is n't there . |
| 12 | I know how good you were because I was at that stage in maths where I felt rudderless and becalmed , drifting helplessly as it were , as my peer group — the rest of the fleet — sailed serenely on towards the horizon . |
| 13 | Now I think this came around , about , because you get the , the people , the women who want to wear fashionable clothes , it 's getting broader and broader and we 're sort of expanding downwards as it were , so you get women who have enough money to buy the material , to buy patterns , who have the skill to make dresses , but have n't the money to actually get a dressmaker to do it for them . |
| 14 | Finally , it is quite in order to conclude with a brief mention of any potentially useful information that is lacking either because it is not available to you or because it has never been collected ( but could be ) . |
| 15 | Detecting 10 pg of anything is taxing , and doing so when it is effectively ‘ contaminated ’ with a million-fold excess of somewhat similar DNA fragments is even harder . |
| 16 | Return the sauce to the saucepan and then to a low heat , stirring constantly until it is thick enough to coat a spoon . |
| 17 | Stir in the rice and cook , stirring constantly until it is completely reheated , about 2–3 minutes . |
| 18 | She was suffering enough as it was . |
| 19 | And there 's no wonder it 's blowing away cos it 's just lighter than air . |
| 20 | I 'd spent too much of my life running away as it was . |
| 21 | I used to hate coming home when it was almost dark , with ice-cold fingers and toes , feeling miserable because Bessie , the nursemaid , was always scolding me . |
| 22 | And in the winter time we used to love to linger in the bakehouse coming home cos it was so warm . |
| 23 | You 'll have to have a look on the way down and then pass the buds they should be coming now cos it 's nearly spring well it is spring really . |
| 24 | I 'll stop moaning now because it 's going to be a great season . |
| 25 | Dame Gillian Brown thanked the speakers with great enthusiasm , congratulated the Principal on ensuring the succession , and also thanked Patricia Hutchinson and Mary Keen for a successful meeting , and the University Womens ' Club ( worth joining even if it is known as Pussy Cat Hall by my irreverent 88 year old cousin , a St. Hugh 's gal ) gave us rather a good tea . |
| 26 | The important characteristic of an evolutionarily stable strategy , you will remember from earlier chapters , is that it carries on doing well when it is already numerous in the population of strategies . |
| 27 | So that , this is when fractions come into it and everybody starts getting a bit ooh I 'm not very sure of what I 'm doing here because it 's not , you know , it 's not obvious , it 's not very real |
| 28 | I mean clubs that are arranging fixtures will be responsible for telling , they 'll know where it is , and they 'll be responsible for telling people who are coming there where it is . |
| 29 | Gradually add the oil stirring steadily until it is amalgamated and the sauce has the consistency of a creamed butter . |
| 30 | Varieties can develop behavioural ‘ isolating mechanisms ’ , such as differences in courtship , which prevent interbreeding even when it is genetically possible — but a brief period of physical isolation is needed to allow the populations to develop the differences that will prevent them blending back together again if they come into contact . |