Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] it 's [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gray said : ‘ There 's no denying that it 's going to be a tough fight now . |
| 2 | Digital Equipment Corp also has a copy of the paper , and some of the COSE people think DEC is now only a photo opportunity away from announcing that it 's becoming a COSE too . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the company is bragging that it 's having trouble dumbing down the Alpha chip to make it slow enough to sell against the 80486 . |
| 4 | It keeps occurring and it 's called ‘ morphic resonance ’ ; something is simply in the air and more than one person picks it up . |
| 5 | At least that 's what it 's telling the PC press , with IBM retorting that it 's trying to spook customers . |
| 6 | He put a little fish to swim inside , looking like it 's wriggling free . |
| 7 | I 'm never going to forget what I saw — or stop wondering whether it 's happening again . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah I 'm wondering whether it 's playing to itself , with the television off . |
| 9 | You know I mean you 're wondering whether it 's going to blow the chimney pot off or all sorts of things . |
| 10 | In fact , we 're wondering whether it 's going to be possible to keep it up but the trouble is it 's in an area where in the last ooh , over over recent years forty chapels have closed ! |
| 11 | Well , sort of , considering that it 's co-produced by a man named after a Blue Peter dog , Shep Pettibone . |
| 12 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
| 13 | The Reindeer is to push the car park back , half way across the grass , er which is er am I correct in saying that it 's putting it back where it was ? |
| 14 | But the Americans are coming and it 's causing great alarm in some circles . |
| 15 | it straight off the line knowing that it 's coming in . |
| 16 | See what he 's doing with his fur , look scratching and it 's going off and , he knocks his fur off and then it falls , falls out look at him the |
| 17 | A coach firm is claiming that it 's owed more than two thousand pounds by a charity set up to help Bosnian children . |
| 18 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 19 | you make an arrangement to have a game of tennis but the weather , you know i it 's snowing or it 's raining so a lot of them get rained off which is er quite sad . |
| 20 | in other words if you read it without any experience you might start thinking that it 's giving you a vision of the real heaven where as it 's just symbolic |
| 21 | Now I did bring a film along for you see and I 'm hoping that it 's going to work . |
| 22 | So next year I think is potentially hoping that it 's gon na come . |
| 23 | Now , it 's alright , I 'm looking at people and they 're smiling and it 's throwing me . |
| 24 | You 've just to got be ca You 've just got to be careful that you get it i i you 've got it pristine working and it 's gon na work for two days . |