Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Carbohydrates provide a good energy supply for the body as they 're converted into glucose , but make sure you 're eating it in the right forms .
3 ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time .
4 We we 're keeping it under the first weight bracket er for for cost reasons .
5 How is unemployment measured , they 're measuring it in the formal sector , and you can actually live by being employed in the informal sector , which is often not recorded .
6 Well you 're measuring it in the opposite direction to the way you 're measuring X.
7 If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child .
8 so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis
9 They may need to go out in pairs which is why I think that we do need to put more money into the budget to provide this service and make sure that we 're doing it in the best possible way , erm so I mean I think that it 's very important that we 're consistent about this .
10 you , you 're doing it in the same room
11 so if you 're putting it in the second half of the second term
12 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 .
13 ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League .
14 Understand that you are not shutting the door on the one you loved , but you are shutting it on the negative force that lived — or still lives — within them .
15 I 'm doing it through the four years of the course .
16 ‘ Now I 'm in the side , I 'm running into these superstars and thinking I 'm only a young boy , but I 'm mixing it with the best .
17 If I take away the minus twenty well I 'm taking it from the same thing are n't I ?
18 Property shares will get a shot-in-the-arm should one of their over-geared number announce that its bankers are backing it into the New Year , rather than pulling the plug .
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