Example sentences of "[v-ing] and it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's an art to tackling and it 's nothing to do with the elbows in faces , eye-poking , testicle-grabbing and raking opponents down their Achilles tendons that he talks about . |
| 2 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 3 | It keeps occurring and it 's called ‘ morphic resonance ’ ; something is simply in the air and more than one person picks it up . |
| 4 | Again this causes blurring and it 's difficult to see near details . |
| 5 | It would be perverse , then , to deny that very exciting things have been happening and it is no business of this chapter to disparage these remarkable advances in understanding of the brain . |
| 6 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 7 | Well , I think we should tell national office that this is , you know , this is happening and it 's not on ! |
| 8 | Something was happening and it was so pleasurable she did n't want it to fade . |
| 9 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 10 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 11 | This method is called density slicing and it was the technique used in the generation of the colour image shown on the front cover of this book . |
| 12 | Traditionally , hill sheep farmers have sold store lambs to lowland farmers for fattening and it is the latter who should benefit from the variable premia . |
| 13 | It is very important to keep on happy and good terms with the family that are living and it is extremely sad when the death of a parent who loved all the children should be an unwitting source of family rifts . |
| 14 | I was n't listening and it was important that I should have picked that up . |
| 15 | OK , so it used to be called ‘ mother 's ruin' and it 's reputation among the more desperate of women as a way of sorting out an inconvenient pregnancy problem might hardly have endeared it to the more sober . |
| 16 | In one sense these findings may be seen as an argument for mainstreaming and it is appropriate to pause for a moment to consider this view . |
| 17 | Not strictly true , he was a lapsed communist , but Preston meant it to be provoking and it was . |
| 18 | Beryl was staring at him , her lips were trembling and it was clear that she was deeply disturbed . |
| 19 | I would assume by now that erm you know that they 've finished operating and it 's alright . |
| 20 | It 's a word which everyone is using and it 's almost like confetti . |
| 21 | The ceremony has died out in many areas over the past hundred years , so it was a good idea to revive it.There 's cider and singing and it 's good fun . |
| 22 | A blackbird was singing and it was very quiet and peaceful in the Park . |
| 23 | it 's stopped raining and it 's not raining or anything . |
| 24 | It was raining and it was threatening . |
| 25 | ‘ The party 's only just got going and it 's quiet up here , peaceful . |
| 26 | So he , he , as I was talking to her last night on the phone the front door bell 's going and it 's our Fred from next door right looking after her and bringing forms for her to fill in to get dial-a-ride . |
| 27 | In some of the more elaborate biplanes it was not always easy to tell which way the loads were going and it was a stock joke at one time that the way to check the rigging of a certain aircraft was to put a canary between the wings ; if it got out something was wrong . |
| 28 | That unsettled me a bit , but we eventually got going and it was all right . |
| 29 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 30 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |