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

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1 I think we 're losing track of what this actually is Paul , there are , you 're trying to do two things at once what you 're trying to do , I think is use it as a learning process for children but this is an annual report for parents and I think that part of it a at least surely must be a report by the sa member of staff , by the department on how the child has done , by the member staff .
2 So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it .
3 All you do is apply it to a cleansed bare face and give it a few hours to work .
4 Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know ,
5 Except for it 's dead hot still if you 're not careful , if you 've been cooking it in the over or something
6 Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now .
7 A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’
8 Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ?
9 Well I 've been doing it for a
10 So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis .
11 I 've been treating it as a wart .
12 If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years .
13 Well this is what I 'm saying Ton you and I have been saying it during the game that that the other players ca n't score goals it 's as simple as that .
14 Washington seems content to let the United Nations disband the Contras , but Mr Pickering and other US officials have been linking it to the disbanding of the FMLN , without explicitly making it a condition for Washington 's cooperation .
15 That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer .
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