Example sentences of "it [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |
| 2 | It 's flattering after 15 years of marriage , to know that he 's in a lather of anticipation about undressing his wife . |
| 3 | It 's getting towards that time of year when you want to make plenty of garments and the faster the better . |
| 4 | You get the feeling that BMW likes the attention it 's getting in this area — plenty of supercar glory by association without getting its environmentally friendly hands dirty . |
| 5 | ‘ At home you hardly know whether it 's raining from one day to the next but here you feel better every time the sun comes out . |
| 6 | But it 's moving towards that end , where , do it or else . |
| 7 | The company has formed a new netball team by combining players from LASMO North Sea and LASMO plc and it 's looking for new recruits to boost its current 15-strong membership . |
| 8 | Following the successful Cold Front appeal it 's flying in warm clothing and our reporter Kim Barnes joined the airlift . |
| 9 | The National Children 's Home says many ca n't even afford basic necessities like food and clothing , It 's calling for immediate government action to help what it calls The Lost Generation |
| 10 | But as we 're seeing it 's happening to all sorts of people . |
| 11 | It 's happening in major cities , local groups are getting involved , so you might find a village firm somewhere is organising a sponsored walk . |
| 12 | Now we 've got to race against time again , this is not just happening in NUPE it 's happened all over and it 's gon na it 's happening in this union before it starts . |
| 13 | Besides , its new paymaster — the Russian leadership — is keen to avoid anything that would embarrass Britain , just when it 's asking for Western aid . |
| 14 | It 's travelling at one mph and SHOULD be off the motorway by 7.00 pm tonight , with the road opening an hour later . |
| 15 | IT 'S BURSTING WITH BRILLIANT IDEAS |
| 16 | Erm and then it 's talking about standard variety that it 's usually the standard variety that 's accepted as the proper one when compared to other like smaller varieties erm dialects and stuff . |
| 17 | Er but I did it at a scale like erm one centimetre for o for every hour it 's blowing in that direction . |
| 18 | So the bedrooms and they 're not too bad because he has n't been able to do anything in the bedrooms the bedrooms are alright except that over the lintels in most of the bedrooms the plaster is is not right , it 's it 's flaking in great lumps and rippling and cracked something to do with the |
| 19 | No no no what what Can I can I just say well I 'm What what the treasurer of an event like this needs to do is to note down the source of the cash he receives , to note where it 's coming from different products , how much is being received from that |
| 20 | The methods that she uses erm , and I think this needs to be done well before a disaster , unfortunately so often people only react at times like this and I think it 's such a pity that they do n't do it beforehand , but it 's working on basic assertiveness skills , communications skills like giving a language for feelings , erm building up support for each other , plus the creative work — getting things down |
| 21 | I think it 's working in this club or summat . |
| 22 | It 's crawling with pretentious wankers . ’ |
| 23 | being an hour it 's going onto two hours |
| 24 | it 's going into one lane |
| 25 | it 's going into one lane |
| 26 | It 's going into another statwell so that little . |
| 27 | It 's going through that system , and once they 've given us the go ahead then we can go to the solicitor in Lancaster . |
| 28 | because they 've sold everything off like gas and electricity and everything and all the resources they 've got for it they 've spent , to supplement everything else , so the money wo n't be there , and , and the income from the electricity and that is n't going to the Government it 's going to private enterprise |
| 29 | Gon na ask you to do an exercise now er it 'll it 'll take us to four o'clock before we start talking about assertiveness what I 'm gon na ask you to do is in one , two three , one two in two twos and a three I want you to put on paper one side one sheet of paper to sum up all the things we 've done about communication so far today and it 's going to other people on this course , and it 's going to be marked by one of them on this course . |
| 30 | it 's going to dotted minims . |