Example sentences of "[be] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we need people with financial experience and managerial experience , then appoint them to the local to the Police Committee , given them a job to do , they 're the ones that are should advise the Chief Constable and the Police Committee as to whether they 're spending the right of money on computers and are using it properly , not whether they 're using them operationally correctly . |
| 2 | The effect , claims Wren , has been significant : ‘ Staff are using it much more than they used to . ’ |
| 3 | Even in its innocent context near the start of Volume One , when the hobbits are using it only to help themselves along , it has an odd ring . |
| 4 | It is an exploration of [ a ] vocabulary … which has been inherited within precise social and historical conditions and which has to be made at once conscious and critical — subject to change as well as continuity — if the millions of people in whom it is active are to see it as active : not as a tradition to be learned , nor a consensus to be accepted ; … but as a vocabulary to use , to find our ways in , to change as we find it necessary to change it , as we go on making our own language and history . |
| 5 | But I would be surprised if I did after this year , although , at this stage , I am still playing well enough and I am enjoying it enough so that if I want to play another tournament , I can . ’ |
| 6 | But I would be surprised if I did after this year , although , at this stage , I am still playing well enough and I am enjoying it enough so that if I want to play another tournament , I can . ’ |
| 7 | P.S. They cook good western food here , and I am enjoying it now and then as a change from Chinese . |
| 8 | There was one though on the Antique Road Show where there 's erm er girl brought in a kettle and they 've been using it just every day and it was pottery and it was actually to buy her her own house . |
| 9 | Someone had been using it regularly , and recently . |
| 10 | The user can also lock out his floppy disk drive or input-output port , if the computer 's log-in count indicates someone has been using it illicitly . |
| 11 | I am eating it really . |
| 12 | ‘ They are enjoying it quietly , ’ said Owen soothingly . |
| 13 | It was only then that he realised that he simply had n't been driving it fast enough . |
| 14 | Where Cooper has been taking instruction on board , Waters has been tossing it aside . |
| 15 | ‘ If your wife fancies me — as you put it she 's been keeping it very much to herself . ’ |
| 16 | But they 've been keeping it though have n't they ? |
| 17 | I have been wanting it badly . |
| 18 | ‘ You are to open it later — on the flight to Ebert 's if you must , but later . |
| 19 | Perhaps what we believe today is no better than the Sunday-school notions we were forced to discard yesterday and is different to us only because we are believing it today ? |
| 20 | They 're building it so that they can control events in the whole of South America when things get really tough . |
| 21 | Consequently , we 're seeing it more on the high street as casual wear . |
| 22 | They 're now even on to the vile Trade Union Reform Bill , they 're accepting it admittedly but but they 're accepting it , but it 's in the wrong Bill it 's in the wrong place it should be up in the front . |
| 23 | Life may be stressful but you 're handling it magnificently . |
| 24 | Okay then we used this er in a way that we 're using it right now to er produce our design for what we were going to say through thought patterns . |
| 25 | And you 're using it now are you ? |
| 26 | oh no , they 're gon na think we 're rigging it now |
| 27 | That was the boss ; all the other crews are already on task and D Squadron needs a new gearbox in one of its Chieftains — it 's about six miles from here so they 're sending out a truck with the spares and we 're to meet it there . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Sorry you 're takin' it so bad , ’ he added miserably . |
| 29 | They 're grouping it right now . ’ |
| 30 | You 're trying to be everything and they 're pushing it away cos it 's not what they really want and they , I mean , all , all you can get from him is how marvellous , you 're right , how marvellous his brothers are and yet , what I 've heard of the brothers they 're not |