Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [conj] it [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is as much to keep other things from crowding in as it is to ensure that we pay attention to all that matters . |
| 2 | There is a massive sub-culture there , looking backwards and it 's getting more insidious all the time . |
| 3 | ‘ That is not to say I am not looking around and it 's reassuring that there 's money available if necessary . |
| 4 | Smoke detector 's batteries must be going down cos it 's making a funny noise . |
| 5 | you 're coming near to the end of your shift you 're not waking up because it 's getting near morning whereas everybody else is , you 're finding it much more difficult to carry on because you 've gone through the whole night working , the night is well along and it becomes increasingly more difficult to stay awake so physically , spiritually , whatever way you look at it , it is certainly very difficult to stay awake in the truth today , but it is n't that difficult and it is n't er a hurdle that none of us can overcome , Jehovah says that his load is light , Jesus echoed that did n't he and it is true that if we do Jehovah 's will , Jehovah 's way , then it will be made light for us , he will help us to stay awake , but he 's not going to allow us to slumber and drift off into obscurity , but it all comes back in hinges upon us and that 's why the counsel is in verse thirteen as a day , as in a day time look , let us walk decently so we have to do something do n't we ? |
| 6 | Where the water 's stuck and it keeps coming down and it 's getting quite wide where anyone could slip in . |
| 7 | I 'll stop moaning now because it 's going to be a great season . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Gradually add the oil stirring steadily until it is amalgamated and the sauce has the consistency of a creamed butter . |
| 10 | I said , I said , if we do get going , and we do start finding out that it 's going alright , he 'll turn that , into like er , shop er , blasting shop . |
| 11 | ‘ There might be some spare cash floating around since it 's getting near the end of the year . ’ |
| 12 | Its engine is missing badly and it 's circling round as if looking for a landing-place . |