Example sentences of "[v-ing] and it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 2 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 3 | Well , I think we should tell national office that this is , you know , this is happening and it 's not on ! |
| 4 | Something was happening and it was so pleasurable she did n't want it to fade . |
| 5 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 6 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 7 | It is very important to keep on happy and good terms with the family that are living and it is extremely sad when the death of a parent who loved all the children should be an unwitting source of family rifts . |
| 8 | It 's a word which everyone is using and it 's almost like confetti . |
| 9 | A blackbird was singing and it was very quiet and peaceful in the Park . |
| 10 | it 's stopped raining and it 's not raining or anything . |
| 11 | That unsettled me a bit , but we eventually got going and it was all right . |
| 12 | I am waiting and it is not a time for you to be chatting . |
| 13 | The sexual revolution was beginning and it was very exciting to get away from home and enjoy yourself in a relatively guilt-free way . ’ |
| 14 | The clouds had thinned , the sun was shining and it was almost warm enough to create the illusion of summer . |
| 15 | I know , look crying and it 's still sore today . |
| 16 | and erm but the plane , the er boat was slow in coming and it was so hard to get a ship back then |
| 17 | This is extremely time consuming and it is not always easy to tell whether the grains are what you think if they are not well-preserved . |
| 18 | It 's happening now , it 's always progressing and it 's always going on and you 're never going to reach an end point , you 're never going to reach a final point , whereas with something like history , I find it 's interesting , but you 're always going over and analysing what 's happened , it 's that much more backward looking , whereas science applied has got more constructive . |
| 19 | I would have thought that was a more likely erm But er we 're obviously we 're speculating and it 's perhaps |
| 20 | ‘ The IRA are sure that somebody in the organisation is talking and it 's really put the wind up some people . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Come on … now … before they finishes their arguing and it 's too late ! ’ |
| 23 | So perhaps the first thing about that continuum is that none of them are right or wrong we all dis-represent the ways of behaving and it 's very much a personal choice which one will use at one stage . |
| 24 | New uses for aspirin keep emerging and it 's now thought to help prevent heart attacks , strokes , arthritis and even some forms of cancer . |
| 25 | The analyses of the multiple choice versions suggest strongly that many pupils were guessing and it is only the non-multiple choice versions which are reported here . |
| 26 | He was off the field throughout the second day having treatment for a pulled thigh muscle , but said today : ‘ I have not felt the injury at all when batting and it is much better . ’ |
| 27 | So I played on this really , really heavy cut by Michael Bolton — it was really rockin' and it was really cool . |
| 28 | Then they were among them , milling about the horses , and the terrified animals were bucking and screaming and it was all Riven could do to stay mounted . |
| 29 | Massive chunks of history are missing and it is really not possible to understand the Abstract Expressionists without reference to how they incorporated or reacted against those earlier tendencies . |
| 30 | oh the cupboards are brilliant it 's just the fronts are so dated and the man in these reports in the house said erm , kitchen is satisfactory but it needs updating and it was only about seven years ago it was brand new , no , not seven , have we been in then , no eight , so nine or something , I know the fronts need sorting out . |