Example sentences of "[conj] be [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He drove through the backstreets , and the quieter residential boulevards , where people had either ignored the date and retired to sleep , or were celebrating it in the privacy of their homes .
2 somebody that is doing it as a business , what sort of money are they looking to ?
3 At the beginning of September , 1715 , the mission left St. Petersburg on an incredible journey that was to take it from the shore of the Baltic Sea in the west , almost to the Pacific Ocean in the east , crossing the full width of European Russia , much of Siberia , Mongolia 's Gobi Desert and deep into China .
4 Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference .
5 So there is a shortage of hard information in some areas , er , it is a changing situation , and it is one where the Committee is under very clear instruction to extend the alternative care options that it gives to clients , and therefore that again is a complexity in terms of your ability to ensure you 've got adequate funding and are directing it in the right areas in , in order to meet , not only the needs of people out there , but the changing needs and what is , Mike has already referred to as being the preferred solutions erm , many of which have not been available to people in the past .
6 They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion .
7 With no qualifications and precious little experience , she has taken on the job of Princess of Wales and is turning it into a significant career — and at the same time has brought up two small boys .
8 The Three Choirs vineyard is making an English equivalant of Beaujolais Nouveau , and is launching it on the French market .
9 She 'd washed her hair and was drying it on the hessian towel .
10 Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning .
11 At luncheon , Bradbury 's Alsatian dog was found to have retrieved a boot of a German airman and was chewing it under the table .
12 Raynor had fetched wine from a corner cupboard , and was heating it with a thin iron rod which had been resting in the fire 's embers .
13 On the steps of the stadium someone had erected a red hammer-and-sickle flag and was waving it towards the crowd and the few media people present .
14 It had been owned by the Turner family , and my aunt 's builder husband had bought it from them and was turning it into an apartment house when he was called up for service with the Army .
15 He kept on , and it was worse because he 'd got hold of the helmet now and was smashing it against the toilet .
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