Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 2 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 3 | So it 's not , you 're looking at it as two . |
| 4 | But that 's because we 're looking at it at close quarters . |
| 5 | and if it 's a tight one , and you 're going round it in first , really tight one , then what you need to be doing really is slipping the clutch |
| 6 | You 're talking to it at this very moment , you 're talking it out , you 're talking it down , and you want my help . |
| 7 | However , I believe we are going into it in good shape and can fact it with out usual , and properly cautious , optimism . |
| 8 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 9 | But sociologist Jean-Claude Kausmann has found out what they are doing with it in private in a major piece of research that takes the lid off the French marital laundry basket . |
| 10 | But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully . |
| 11 | There 's a proof because so if two people were contemplating the proof of the infinity of primes they would n't be going about it in different ways , erm , if they 're contemplating the proof , they 'd be contemplating exactly the same steps in the same order . |
| 12 | A county council spokesman said : ‘ We have received Rev Harper 's letter and will be replying to it in due course . ’ |
| 13 | On the other hand , for a task such as fault diagnosis he will be thinking about it in various structured ways which he can reveal by talking about it and exploring verbally why he looks at particular indications or takes particular actions . |
| 14 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 15 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 16 | Well I think there 's a difficulty here because I think one of the questions is a matter of perspective erm how do you define how you define what sexual harassment is is to an extent a factor of your perspective on the question in that I think that tutors who have been thinking about it in recent years , and women tutors , who have taken the lead in it , have tended to think about the implications from the institutional perspective , that is how do tutors behave to their students and in what ways may that affect students ' studies and their live in the college . |
| 17 | It 's just that he 's coming for it at three so if I get my camera I want it before three . |
| 18 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 19 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 20 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 21 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 22 | I 'd want to know how much the people who are working on it at all stages are paid , if they 're paid a living wage . |
| 23 | Er I I could n't tell you off the top of me head I because I was working on it till half past midnight . |