Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're letting it die ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And you 're letting it get out of hand . ’ |
| 3 | And you 're making it sound like an interrogation . |
| 4 | She supposed wearily that she should be hoping this last thing would still happen , should be making it happen if it did n't happen on its own , but she knew that however hopeless this love for him was , it was the most precious and valuable thing she had ever experienced . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm making it sound as though the little hut was some sort of brothel , but it was n't like that at all . |
| 6 | So it it it gives , gives , gives the girls a lot of different sort of ways break it up , fit it in and and I 'm making it sound very nice |
| 7 | But he 's also saying is n't he at the end of this paragraph , or he 's implying that th this is this revolution is not happening because we the communists are making it happen , it is happening and we need to react to it and somehow we 've therefore got a choice , we can either trail behind or we can lead it . |
| 8 | Archaeology has become significantly more scientific , with the result that science is helping it evolve from being something of a treasure hunt to a high tech study . |
| 9 | ‘ Now he 's seeing it like this ' , ‘ now like that ’ would only be said of someone capable of making certain applications of the figure quite freely . |
| 10 | And he 's letting it go for a song . |
| 11 | tree that 's making it fall down yeah . |
| 12 | He 's making it sound as if I was stretched on a couch , locked in a room with a ‘ Do not disturb ’ sign on the door while Sir Matt , the doc and a priest I have certainly never met , got to work straightening me out , socially , medically and religiously . |
| 13 | So it 's making it look like inverse proportion and the first thought is , Oh it l er er oh . |
| 14 | But now it stretched all the way down her back and Claire was making it shine like black oil . |
| 15 | She had not meant that , Ashley thought frantically , at least not in the way his husky intonation was making it sound , not how the look in his dark eyes seemed to imply . |
| 16 | They were both singing well , not exactly together , but not destroying each other either and , as he listened , he realized that once again it was Therese who was making it work , adapting slightly , but still dominating the sounds as they came over the footlights . |