Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It keeps occurring and it 's called ‘ morphic resonance ’ ; something is simply in the air and more than one person picks it up . |
| 2 | It was raining and it was threatening . |
| 3 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 4 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 5 | The city 's best season was the autumn , when the leaves were turning and it was filled with a soft golden light which carried it the name of Aurea Parma . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But the Americans are coming and it 's causing great alarm in some circles . |
| 8 | The light was fading and it was getting difficult to distinguish what was happening . |
| 9 | The light was fading and it was getting cold ; Edward decided to pack it in . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | B. Life in Britain is changing and it is changing more and more quickly . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Belgian group was now flourishing and it was anticipated that future activity for the Swiss and Dutch members would be coordinated by enthusiastic individuals . |
| 15 | Now , it 's alright , I 'm looking at people and they 're smiling and it 's throwing me . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A male dancer volunteered for the partnering but it was thought tactful to omit his solo . |