Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 2 | Er , because w er males because of er variance of male reproductive success , another way of looking at it is to say look , males are expendable , you do n't actually need a lot of males to keep all your females fertilized so you can waste them , and in fact we do waste them , for example in wars . |
| 3 | Another way of looking at it is to think of an actor who rehearses and rehearses his lines in order that his performance may be as near perfect as possible on opening night . |
| 4 | One successful way of going about it is to invite parents into school one class at a time to hear of the plans that the school has made . |
| 5 | And as they were fretting about it being nicked , it turned up in their own backyard . |
| 6 | As soon as the offices and shops closed at noon , the square and all the streets leading off it were filled with bicycles , then as now the best way of getting about in Parma . |
| 7 | While this work was going on it was observed by two Parish Councillors that the concrete holding the seat in place had been smashed and the seat itself removed . |
| 8 | While this work was going on it was observed by two Parish Councillors that the concrete holding the seat in place had been smashed and the seat itself removed . |
| 9 | This is because protein and fat act as a chemical block to alcohol , leading to it being absorbed from the stomach into the bloodstream more slowly . |
| 10 | Many of the 35 replies gave details of the circumstances leading to it being written , their experiences and hopes . |
| 11 | Yeah , but you 've got ta me , do n't forget we 've got fitted wardrobes , so it 's going by it 's taking space off for the wardrobe . |
| 12 | When speeding along it is folded and lies in a deep groove along the back . |
| 13 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 14 | There were a few cancelled bookings for children and Darlington Conservative councillor Peter Jones went on Radio Four last week , calling for it be banned from the Civic , where it is due on March 31 . |
| 15 | An easy way of sort of getting round it is to say that adapters do it better , and innovators do it differently . |
| 16 | An object with what appeared to be a gun barrel pointing from it was found 30 yards from where Mr Peter Jowett 's body lay . |
| 17 | Then in the late fifth , or early sixth , century the settlement moved northwards ; it was smaller , of briefer duration and more dispersed , and the cemetery belonging to it was defined by Romano-British ditches . |
| 18 | ‘ And all the government is doing about it is running the country ! |
| 19 | In the experience of the author , the idea of the scheme is catching on very widely , and the theories running through it are rubbing off on traditional conveyancing practice in the commercial area . |
| 20 | And in instead of it coming off it 's adding on and adding on and by night time she can hardly breathe so she 's cough cough cough cough cough cough cough all night . |
| 21 | ‘ Markham received help for two years , but with new applicants coming along it was felt he could not receive a third grant . ’ |
| 22 | Rape does not provoke such strong emotions in policemen , and their resistance to dealing with it is expressed more in terms of the greater competence policewomen are supposed to have . |
| 23 | If , for example , a shy child has been very quiet in what is supposed to be a television interview , a positive way of dealing with it is to acknowledge it as something that has happened within the dramatic fiction : " Most of us would get very nervous being interviewed for TV ; I know I would . |
| 24 | The advent of the success is so delightful that all thoughts of learning from it are banished . |
| 25 | And one day she had this other map , and I do n't know where she got that either , or what happened to it She only showed it me the once , and after that whenever I mentioned it she did n't know what I was talking about It was made of something absolutely rigid but incredibly thin . |
| 26 | David Jensen 's playing like it 's going out of fashion ! |
| 27 | I know it 's still an acid but the way it 's thinking about it 's making me confused . |
| 28 | Tell you what I must do actually whilst I 'm thinking about it is do take one lot of washing out and put another lot in . |
| 29 | then the when they 're all parading around it 's to behave , he tried to hold their hands , right . |
| 30 | The paper quotes Microsoft officials saying that the 130 to 140 developers working on it are trying to develop an operating system that will provide a consistent means of accessing information with seamless integration of everyday tasks . |