Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cumulative effect of the language of the British inner city has been to give it a contradictory definition , as a conceptual space both inside and outside of society . |
| 2 | OK , so perhaps she 'd been pushing it a little ! |
| 3 | But er , I was giving this er I 'd been giving it a stroke , and er it 's sort of dying to be fussed , but I do n't think they give it any attention across there . |
| 4 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
| 5 | If you get it right , the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds , and all you 've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout , and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly … |
| 6 | I 've been feeding it a goodly amount of quinine and aspirin in the night to keep it from going hungry . " |
| 7 | I 've got two thirds of back and I 've been doing it a month . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been giving it a lot of thought , ’ he says slowly , chewing on the pipe , and smoothing the glossy black hair above the drooping face . |
| 9 | I 've been giving it a great deal of thought myself in recent weeks . |
| 10 | ‘ No , but I 've been giving it a lot of thought , and it seems to me that the person who fits the bill is … ’ |
| 11 | But Aldi says it has had trouble : the Office of Fair Trading is investigating Aldi 's claim that suppliers , frightened of affronting their main customers , have been giving it the cold shoulder . |