Example sentences of "[be] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you look down , when you are seeing it in on the television pictures , you look down from an aerial view . |
| 2 | If we need people with financial experience and managerial experience , then appoint them to the local to the Police Committee , given them a job to do , they 're the ones that are should advise the Chief Constable and the Police Committee as to whether they 're spending the right of money on computers and are using it properly , not whether they 're using them operationally correctly . |
| 3 | The effect , claims Wren , has been significant : ‘ Staff are using it much more than they used to . ’ |
| 4 | Even in its innocent context near the start of Volume One , when the hobbits are using it only to help themselves along , it has an odd ring . |
| 5 | It is an exploration of [ a ] vocabulary … which has been inherited within precise social and historical conditions and which has to be made at once conscious and critical — subject to change as well as continuity — if the millions of people in whom it is active are to see it as active : not as a tradition to be learned , nor a consensus to be accepted ; … but as a vocabulary to use , to find our ways in , to change as we find it necessary to change it , as we go on making our own language and history . |
| 6 | But I would be surprised if I did after this year , although , at this stage , I am still playing well enough and I am enjoying it enough so that if I want to play another tournament , I can . ’ |
| 7 | But I would be surprised if I did after this year , although , at this stage , I am still playing well enough and I am enjoying it enough so that if I want to play another tournament , I can . ’ |
| 8 | P.S. They cook good western food here , and I am enjoying it now and then as a change from Chinese . |
| 9 | You 've been encouraging it up to now , on a few occasions up to now . |
| 10 | There was one though on the Antique Road Show where there 's erm er girl brought in a kettle and they 've been using it just every day and it was pottery and it was actually to buy her her own house . |
| 11 | Someone had been using it regularly , and recently . |
| 12 | The user can also lock out his floppy disk drive or input-output port , if the computer 's log-in count indicates someone has been using it illicitly . |
| 13 | I am eating it really . |
| 14 | ‘ They are enjoying it quietly , ’ said Owen soothingly . |
| 15 | We are applying it not to everyday life , but to that aspect of the performance mode that is , at least incipiently , present in dramatic playing . |
| 16 | It was only then that he realised that he simply had n't been driving it fast enough . |
| 17 | Where Cooper has been taking instruction on board , Waters has been tossing it aside . |
| 18 | It 's one we normally keep in the attic but we 've been keeping it down here |
| 19 | ‘ If your wife fancies me — as you put it she 's been keeping it very much to herself . ’ |
| 20 | But they 've been keeping it though have n't they ? |
| 21 | I have been wanting it badly . |
| 22 | I am living it up with Survage at the Coq d'Or . |
| 23 | But the men are lapping it up — so are their floosies . |
| 24 | I goes yeah , just been to pick it up . |
| 25 | I 've been filling it in |
| 26 | erm so er tt I think the other thing that 'll be nice if erm er given , if the first years are filling it in er in about a week and a half 's time , if we could if you could try and bash some of the data in fairly rapidly so that , you know kind of before the end of term we can , you know , kind of give them a brief digest of how , what , what the results were |
| 27 | ‘ You are to open it later — on the flight to Ebert 's if you must , but later . |
| 28 | While you 've been living it up in the lap of luxury — ’ |
| 29 | ’ I hear that George has been living it up a bit lately ? ’ |
| 30 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |