Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [prep] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This really shook me this morning although I am getting over it a bit now , ’ she said yesterday . |
| 2 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 3 | Bill : I was wondering recently what effect the AIDS hysteria has had outside the gay movement and I was talking about it a bit in a pub I use down in Sussex . |
| 4 | I was talking about it the other day and you go and it all comes , it hurts and , and it comes out and you ca n't even hold it down either cos it just comes in your mouth dribbles out the side . |
| 5 | I am so excited , I have n't slept since I was told about it a couple of days ago . ’ |
| 6 | But I was told about it the night before I was released ! |
| 7 | But as I was going into it the sun came out , challenging the smell from the night lavatory . |
| 8 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 9 | If I was left to it the first pint would go about |
| 10 | In either case , another chapter is added to a ‘ founding text ’ , a text which both authorizes its own dissemination , and gives everything which is recounted in it the imprimatur of a special truth : this is the word of a chosen people . |
| 11 | She 's talked about it every day since last winter and I 've listened . |
| 12 | I think she 's going off it a bit so I said oh well I 'll come and have a chat and I said listen , I said , I realize you you 've got a lot of school work and that and you 've got your boyfriend , I said , but there is now way that you 're gon na let him stand in the field , getting fat and getting old you 've got |
| 13 | We are going about it the proper way and er nevertheless it will be assessed and costed at the end . |
| 14 | Thinking about our coastline , seeing that we 're talking about it a bit , what about our white cliffs all along the coast ? |
| 15 | And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day . |
| 16 | There is attached to it an element of ratio between input and output . |
| 17 | They 're looking at it the wrong way . |
| 18 | They 're concentrating on it a bit now , are n't they . |
| 19 | It 's carrying with it a lot of soil , bits of rock , |
| 20 | He 's worked on it every day you 've been gone . |
| 21 | He was in the middle of more grief than he could deal with , yet he was piling onto it the commonplace misery of subterfuge , as if he had to protect some clandestine happiness that did n't even exist . |
| 22 | Anyhow , he , he bakes bread and he was talking about it the other day and I said oh that 's lovely homemade bread . |
| 23 | He was staring at it the way a cat looks at a dinner-plate . |
| 24 | In fact , he was to learn of it the very next day , and he duly performed his own half of the bargain with a strangely honourable integrity . |