Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] it [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have to be a bit more incisive out wide but at least after our poor start to the League season we seem to be getting it together at last . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Why do n't you give our young friend a hand with her backpack ? — After all , she 's going to be lugging it all round Madrid this afternoon . ’ |
| 3 | Linford Christie and Desert Orchid look set to be battling it out at Cheltenham in November . |
| 4 | Hare , a panel beater from Belstead , is likely to be battling it out with Tacey for the number eight race jacket . |
| 5 | Although erm his second idea second way of limiting the possibilities on is rather more difficult to accept now and his claim is that we should n't pay members of parliament , that people who go to parliament ought to be doing it out of duty and not out of er interest . |
| 6 | She claimed to be doing it only for Jeeta , but there was real , wilful contrariness in it , I suspected . |