Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's erm mm oh erm there 's there 's erm a boy with a big umbrella who 's got , and it 's raining and he 's got , I did n't know April showers were like this . |
| 2 | There 's gold and it 's haunting and haunting |
| 3 | See so it 's just by learning the pattern it 's like say if you were you were playing football every time somebody every time the ball came towards you you had to learn all about the way the ball goes Oh it 's you know it 's slowing down cos the grass is wet and it 's curling and things like that . |
| 4 | or a bit of mould in one of the sockets it used to click all the phones when anybody made a call and er , all , all sorts of things that , I would of thought ah there 's a faulty phone somewhere and it 's degenerating and er we went round and waste every single one out , every single one , went to this extension pressed line three , play it down and the phone rang , I thought right it 's not a phone , I changed the cabinet , I changed all the cards and the cards in one big one , I had one three |
| 5 | Had a very , very good over from Bill Tufnell there , it 's always a bit tricky when you come on to bowl and it 's turning and it 's a long day ahead and you , you 're expected to get hissed and you expect to get hissed , and you can get very impatient when they do n't come , but he 's got one now , he 's got , now he 's bowled well all morning now , he 's bowled almost for an hour , but he 's got that one wicket and he , that over was full of confidence , he tossed one up , misjudged the length and got into a bit of a tangle and then he bowled a quicker one which tried to cut , he then misjudged the pace and he could off nick it to the , a very , very good over and he 's bowling with , with great confidence at the moment . |
| 6 | ‘ That is not to say I am not looking around and it 's reassuring that there 's money available if necessary . |
| 7 | They will be talking as they eat and it 's distracting and embarrassing to have to juggle something fussy and awkward while you 're trying to make new friends and business contacts . |
| 8 | So you would n't see it and it 's running and there 's a mike there . |
| 9 | Right , if you just want to come out of there and we 'll just have a look at the plot of the residuals , if you plot the residuals the test for serial correlation there well the test for serial correlation , right , and try and determine whether there 's a auto regressive structure to those parameters and I think Steve was talking to you about er auto regressions , so what the computer is doing essentially , it is getting the residuals from the model raised and it 's regressing them right on the residuals in the previous period , right , and it 's testing whether this parameter row , right , is significantly different from zero right , now if this is , if row is significantly different from zero , let's say it 's nought point six , that implies the residuals in T are not independent of the residuals in T minus one . |
| 10 | Generic social work with the general population in closely knit communities may obviously be best achieved through small , patch-based teams ; but no organizational arrangement is universally valid irrespective of context and it is damaging when fashion seems to dictate otherwise . |
| 11 | Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky is the most suggestive of all Dostoevsky 's accidental men , and it is fitting that the phrase itself should never be used of or by him . |
| 12 | ‘ Aurigny ’ is the old French name for the island of Alderney , and it is fitting that this should have been chosen as the airline 's title , since in many ways that rocky islet is the heart of the organisation . |
| 13 | Over thousands of years it has been recognized that the human body has a non-physical component , and it is striking that through all the descriptions there is a strong energy theme . |
| 14 | And it is striking that this week 's pressure on the peseta did not reflect a fundamental misalignment of the currency : on most estimates , the Spanish currency was not at all over-valued . |
| 15 | There are two crystallographically independent copies of the sCD2 molecule in the crystal and it is striking that this association occurs , in similar forms , for pairs of both copy 1 and copy 2 molecules ( the two versions are compared in Fig.5 a ) . |
| 16 | The duchy resources were still used on behalf of the royal retinue and it is striking that most of the best offices and farms went to the king 's household . |
| 17 | The difficulty in finding such variables is in itself a measure of how internally divergent BV actually is , and it is striking that the variables that show the sharpest patterns of social variation are subsets within the larger sets . |
| 18 | The duchy resources were still used on behalf of the royal retinue and it is striking that most of the best offices and farms went to the king 's household . |
| 19 | Germany has sixty five percent and it is falling and France sixty percent and now also falling . |
| 20 | I had banged my head badly and it was bleeding but my father was more angry than I had ever seen him . |
| 21 | Thereafter only Ward on the final afternoon played with any real confidence and it was fitting that he should score the only century of the tour just before the end of the match . |
| 22 | The knowledge of his affair still ate away at her , and it was knowing that she could never speak to him about the affair that hurt most . |
| 23 | Then if you had a puncture and it was raining or something . |
| 24 | I would , I worry terribly much about this discussion and it was suggesting that men are somehow the root of all evil and all |
| 25 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |
| 26 | And the , the chef 's were squeezing the custard carton and it was going cos it was the last and the |
| 27 | And it was striking that in both instances the referenda did stimulate a serious and extensive debate about the matters which were to be decided on — or at least voted on . |
| 28 | And it were a-raining and a-raining ! |
| 29 | Investors do not usually grasp the minutiae of the trading experiences of the businesses in which they invest , but it is unsettling when a company such as Pentos , which has been proclaiming its readiness to do battle with the big boys over the Net Book Agreement , has a financial setback . |
| 30 | Little systematic evidence on Asian girls is available at present , but it is emerging that their educational achievements are continually improving and it is clear that the common image of the docile Asian girl uninterested in education and ‘ torn ’ between western and Asian cultures is a gross stereotype ( Brah and Minhas , 1986 ) . |