Example sentences of "[v-ing] [subord] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Sophie did these vaccinations in the pet shop Mr Miller held each patient so firmly and expertly that the recipient hardly noticed was was happening until it was over , but in the surgery it was sometimes traumatic . |
| 2 | And I saw it and everybody in the whole room saw it and burst out laughing cos it was so funny . |
| 3 | You 'd be walking if it was n't for me . |
| 4 | And we just lay on the floor laughing because it was just getting from bad to worse . |
| 5 | I carry on walking till it 's really dark and all the cars have got their lights on . |
| 6 | That section states that a person convicted of taking without consent is liable to pay compensation for any — and I emphasise that word — damage to the property ’ occurring while it was out of the owner 's possession ’ and that such damage is to be treated as ’ having resulted from the offence , however and by whomsoever' the damage was caused . ’ |
| 7 | At the end of the road the huge bulk of the church with its soaring walls of smoke-blackened brick looked as much out of keeping as it was out of scale with this small domestic self-sufficiency . |
| 8 | I finished painting when it was too dark to see and later , in the nearest pub , I asked myself why I find water the most satisfying of all foregrounds. what follows gives some of the answers . |
| 9 | September is one of my favourite months for walking as it 's invariably cooler — and wetter , it 's true ! — yet the days are still long and it 's easier to avoid the crowds . |
| 10 | You must tell your partner to stop pushing if it is too painful . |
| 11 | Never mind , it is a reckless , bloodthirsty tale , with Roland ultimately being punished for his hubris in refusing until it was too late to blow his oliphant , or horn , to summon back Charlemagne and the rest of the army to help his vastly outnumbered rear guard . |
| 12 | This crater was known as the Etang Sec , or dry tarn , a name worth remembering because it was later to become the focus of the eruption proper . |
| 13 | A chill October breeze forced its way through countless gaps and alleys in the structures surrounding them , tugging and pushing when it was least expected , lifting Diane 's hair and flicking it across her face . |
| 14 | It was something to do with homing in more precisely on what had really happened , seeing if it was ever possible to pin down the truth . |
| 15 | These costs of consent to political authority suggest that , on instrumental grounds , consent can only be held binding if it is so qualified that its effect is almost entirely confined to reinforcing independently existing obligations to obey . |
| 16 | Okay , so the gradient which shows you how fast they 're going If it 's more or less horizontal , they 're still . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Shannon held out her hand to both newcomers , wondering if it was simply her imagination that saw a coolly speculative gleam in Marianne 's eyes . |
| 19 | At the time I was very much in love , one of those adventures which seem of overwhelming importance at the time but , afterwards , leave one wondering if it was n't a kind of sickness . |
| 20 | I have put a wee bit of weight on , so I was wondering if it was maybe |
| 21 | In fact she was just checking up on room service , wondering if it was too late to order a plain omelette and salad in her room . |
| 22 | Micro Focus Plc makes a very good living out of a programming language that many believed would be long dead by now yet still shows no signs of fading away — but if object-oriented programming fulfils its promise and sweeps away the paraphernalia of the first 35 years of the computer industry , Micro Focus is going to have to be ready and waiting if it is not going to be swept away too . |
| 23 | It will keep going until it is all gone and then it will go to another place with water and do the same . |
| 24 | We made the mistake of not putting in the trees before the hedges and it 's taken them seven or eight years to get going because it 's so exposed . |
| 25 | That comes up as waiting because it 's not the right side . |
| 26 | To avoid the heat of the day we went out in the mornings , waking while it was still dark . |
| 27 | ‘ He will so — ’ agreed Anne gloomily , adding since it was clearly expected of her ‘ — God rest his soul . ’ |
| 28 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 29 | Still , sacrifices had to be made , though sometimes one could n't help wondering whether it was all worth while . |
| 30 | ‘ I think it 's all right , ’ responded Floy , warily , but even as he spoke he was wondering whether it was all right , and whether they might n't be better simply to walk back through the forest and on to the road . |