Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] and it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know trying to find an assistant cos there was n't one walking about cos there was some at the tills but there were n't any walking around and it was very busy , there were lots of people going through the tills . |
| 2 | He wasted no time in looking round and it was only when he was backing the van to drive away that his face could be seen . |
| 3 | And the peedie fairy was just delighted to start with but soon realized that there was something kind of fishy going on and it was n't a very happy place . |
| 4 | The evenings were drawing out and it was not yet dark but the hall of Moorlake was shadowy and insubstantial in the twilight . |
| 5 | and then coming back and it 's not fucking working properly ! |
| 6 | Of course she could n't make poor Mrs Fanshawe 's bed while they were poking about and it was nearly twelve before she managed to get the poor deluded creature into a chair and the sheets whipped off . |
| 7 | Sit up cos we 're lounging around and it 's still not time yet . |