Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.
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1 | This is something I 've suggested before , something I keep on suggesting because it 's all I can think of . |
2 | I carry on walking till it 's really dark and all the cars have got their lights on . |
3 | Dioxin was indeed found at one Rhone-Poulenc dump in France , its manager nervously explaining that it was good French dioxin , and not a nasty Italian import . |
4 | As to the price of the ‘ Samson ’ , Goldner will not specify , only saying that it is ‘ far , far less than $10 million — I could have bought that , plus another important picture for that amount ’ . |
5 | Our alternative is straightforward , and meets this objection , and we are not only asking that it be used in all cases , only those where the result would otherwise be patently unjust . |
6 | The most this can mean is that the people who voted for the party did so knowing that it was planning to do certain things , and that therefore these voters can be assumed to have consented to those plans . |
7 | I mean the one fear surely is that this is n't something which is happening on a , I was going to say a small local area , that 's perhaps exaggerating but it is in a at the moment in a confined locality , we know where it is , it 's not actually here and |
8 | Therefore if you 've got a relationship with somebody and all you seem to constantly to be doing is constantly arguing and it 's either I win or you win you 're never gon na get out of that unless other time . |
9 | but go for the six o'clock showing cos it 's two pound ten pence . |
10 | This one followed him trustingly , its interest only evaporating when it was turned away from the bar we entered . |
11 | HAMMERSMITH and Fulham Council in west London continued to take out options on the London money market even after the intervention of the district auditor , wrongly thinking that it was reducing its holdings , the High Court was told yesterday . |
12 | Charles stressed that Aimee 's hair would look especially striking if it was darkened and enriched to give the illusion of body . |
13 | Before 1926 , when a person died wholly or partly intestate , the distribution of his property differed widely according as it was real or personal estate . |
14 | It would seem to cover the situation where the accused takes the victim 's umbrella dishonestly and the victim buys back the umbrella , not realising that it is his own . |
15 | I DISCOVERED OIL pastels one Christmas when kindly relation bought me a large box after hearing that I painted in pastels ; not realising that it was the soft chalk variety that I used . |
16 | This fellow went up to a chap ( you could not tell who were NCOs or who were officers ) who was just resting because it was very hard work and we were working under pressure , and said sharply : " What is the trouble with you , have you run out of sandbags ? " |
17 | ‘ I liked the coffee tonight , ’ he said , not allowing that it was the same instant coffee as ever , and to deserve the goodness she determined to go up to Soho tomorrow for some beautiful fresh espresso beans . |
18 | He is not suggesting that it is ‘ thought ’ that is the main determining force . |
19 | I am not suggesting that it is proven that our motives , reasons and purposes are not themselves reducible to mechanically operating causal factors , as a fully determinist model would have it ; but if that is the case , we are so far from being able to specify these factors that they do not offer a model we can actually work with — as we saw in the discussion of positivist criminology in Chapter 2 . |
20 | We are not suggesting that it was a good thing that a flock of kids roosted on Mr Jones 's garden fence . |
21 | She 'd fixed the place where he 'd been , stooped to pick up her baggage , and gone after him , not doubting that it was he . |
22 | Now it is standing at a huge sum , growing rapidly , and it is still not going where it is needed ’ . |
23 | I 'm not going if it 's frosty ! |
24 | I was just wondering whether it 's something , you know , you buy a |
25 | I 'm just wondering whether it 's E D or E S , to fight like this . |
26 | I 'm just wondering if it 's my teeth or that it 's just my blood that 's doing it . |
27 | They seem as what women we are getting today er just want social er and yet my own particular guild , I 'm just wondering if it 's the secretaries that we 're , we 're jus it 's the good secretary we need of course really because , er this sounds really awful of me , it sounds a bit big-headed does n't it you know we would , we would say . |
28 | It could be , or I 'm just wondering if it 's actually squirrels , because although the , the excreta contains berries erm a squirrel will eat berries , it will also eat nuts and of course they do bury their nuts and I 've actually seen squirrels in other parts of the country digging holes and starting a bit of a larder and of course there are a lot of , of erm squirrels in Croydon so I think unless you actually see the animal you can only speculate that it is something small like a vole or , or a squirrel . |
29 | Might the Mr Chairman I was just wondering if it 's worth just mentioning that the , since the Redhill Airport proposal which does include a privately funded motorway link erm point erm has gone to and has been called in to the determination I believe by the Minister , but er we are sort of pending er holding our horses until that er er is nearer the time is that not perhaps |
30 | Now they are exchanging information right away , and not waiting till it is published two years later in a scientific journal . ’ |