Example sentences of "it [is] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Er , you know , I 'm alright , and I 've done my back now and I 'm sure it 's with coughing cos every time I cough now it really hurts !
2 Now my concern is not really with trying to erm get outside people or people in universities to sort of be involved in evaluations necessarily , it 's with helping people within schools to acquire more skills in the area of evaluation , so that schools , whenever they feel it would be useful to them , have got enough professional expertise among their own members to be able to perhaps rather more the quality of their evaluation and to see that it gets put perhaps to rather more purpose .
3 It 's to recording us speaking
4 It 's for calling a servant , but Julia and I never used it because we did n't have any servants .
5 You 'll never guess it 's for collecting gases so we call it a
6 It 's the title on the , it 's for establishing Europe 's first wildlife teaching hospital which is what we 're building at Haddenham pretty shortly .
7 It 's for unfreezing car locks , ’ said Robyn , hastily stowing it away in the glove compartment .
8 It 's for recognising words rather than features or objects , visual .
9 destroyed all mine and put it all in the , I mean lipsticks ten quid a time or whatever , seven quid a time , so I went through and Mary had a she got this moisture , oh I thought what does this mean , she said it 's for removing lines , I thought right we 'll have a sample this
10 It 's , it 's for setting goals and working them out and so on .
11 I think it 's for taking stuff to the factory and that .
12 th th there 's , basically there 's an ord it has an ordinary editor which is sub right , it 's an ASCII editor that appears in a window and it 's for using , for editing the ASCII files .
13 It 's for throwing at them as you retreat into the living room .
14 Something else , therefore , it 's for selling , especially public assets , and they get two pluses in that .
15 Things like that it 's for letting that 's what words are for well numbers are for telling other people how much you how much do you Would you like a cup of coffee ?
16 Oh yes yes it 's it 's for noting yes .
17 to Majorca for a week but it wo n't be to laze around it 's for it 's for walking .
18 Music is n't for keeping and treasuring , it 's for cutting up and feeding into a computer .
19 It 's for making products which are now or are potentially viable commercially .
20 Oh , so it 's so it 's for photographing the star and
21 It 's for hitting cricket balls with .
22 It 's a glove , but it 's for covering the hand .
23 It 's for putting the cream on is n't it ?
24 It 's for putting the cream on the cake is n't it ?
25 ‘ Music 's not about being political , ’ reckons Scott , ‘ it 's for gettin' off on .
26 ‘ Music 's not about being political , ’ reckons Scott , ‘ it 's for gettin' off on .
27 But that would be a strictly literary question ; and it 's for raising quite other questions that this book is momentous and irreplaceable .
28 Aye it 's for carding wool .
29 but it 's for playing golf in .
30 We 've got ta have a direction , and it 's not about who gets the best jobs and who gets the best power positions , it 's about dictating an agenda by the members for the members in the interests of our members , the T & g 's members and all trade unionists in this country .
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