Example sentences of "it be [v-ing] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's getting them to push it and keep in keep in line . |
| 2 | That 's how long it 's taking you to do on the paper . |
| 3 | It 's trusting me to understand the significance of it and why they are giving it to me . ’ |
| 4 | It 's helping them to understand the immense pressures on them to stay forever in the closet . |
| 5 | Well , I 'm basically interested in the way in which education , or formal schooling , has attempted to prepare girls for their lives in the future , whether it prepares them for a life of , say , motherhood and working in the family , or whether it 's encouraging them to do work outside the home and try and achieve in the areas that men traditionally achieve . |
| 6 | So er and god knows what it 's costing them to collect . |
| 7 | It 's telling me to go away . ’ |
| 8 | And it 's asking you to put in the bar lines . |
| 9 | It 's asking us to save them from being depicted in overexposed snaps , and from being constantly pointed at by male senior citizens . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's enabling us to get the effects we need in blends , primarily with wool , mainly for women 's wear . |
| 11 | I 've tried to be sensible about getting back into it , which is strange for an athlete , and it 's forcing me to temper my enthusiasm and take the training easy . ’ |
| 12 | Joanne often felt that she could have taught a topic to the whole class in a fraction of the time it was taking them to find it out for themselves . |
| 13 | She stared out of the window and thought she could write a book in the time it was taking them to get to Nice , which really was just around the corner . |
| 14 | whenever it was telling it to ring |
| 15 | It was killing him to leave his isolation , but leave it he must . |
| 16 | In the beginning I did it to look good , cos I wanted the money , towards the end it was doing it to live , it was literally doing it to live . |