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 . ’
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