Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well why did n't they get a mile away from where they put that money they could 've , they could 've been planned it away , a mile away all |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Thus , as was intended , the Act has had most impact on consumer transactions , and its effect , together with the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , has been to make it hardly worthwhile to exclude liability in consumer transactions . |
| 4 | Glenys has been doing it ever since , han |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , of course , Flick has been going it lately — her letters have been awfully scrappy , but she 's told us about all the dancing and bridge , and that Russian prince with the name like a hiccup who takes her all over the place . |
| 6 | Where Cooper has been taking instruction on board , Waters has been tossing it aside . |
| 7 | ‘ He used his resources to try and trace it and he came up with a French jeweller who 'd been offered it about twenty-five years ago . |
| 8 | What you can not do is leave it overnight . |
| 9 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |
| 10 | If evil were only the absence of good , for instance , then the Ring could never be anything other than a psychic amplifier ; it would not ‘ betray ’ its possessors , and all they would need do is put it aside and think pure thoughts . |
| 11 | It will not expand and since it completely encloses their bodies , the only way they can grow is to shed it periodically . |
| 12 | Finance are resisting it strongly . |
| 13 | Right , what we need to do is to hit it fairly hard and try to get it damped down as quickly as we possibly can . |
| 14 | What they 'd like to do is script it really . |
| 15 | When there 's er when there 's this sort of number what I like to do is make it very informal , more of a chat really than , than a talk . |
| 16 | So all you have to do is imagine it gradually being blown up . |
| 17 | If we find property that we 're , we 're not happy with then all we 've got to do is get it under ultra violet because all police forces do that and up will come the post code . |
| 18 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 19 | Like on this one , you did n't know what the resistance was exactly , but you worked it out , well it 's going to be less than , your first thought was add it together of course . |
| 20 | Comfort , to me , means warmth , and whenever I change homes the first thing I do is make it as warm as possible . |
| 21 | What I do n't want is to do it so seldom that he gets angry ; because he does if he has to wait too long . |
| 22 | Nigger Asnett , who had been taking it very easy since his homecoming , decided it was time to start work . |
| 23 | Someone had been using it regularly , and recently . |
| 24 | She had filched a bottle of claret from her grandfather 's stock and they had been drinking it liberally . |
| 25 | We had been getting it wrong , so were face down in a foot of water in the field doing press-ups . |
| 26 | Mrs Fellows had been finding it increasingly difficult to cope with her usual activities due to her aching legs and tiredness . |
| 27 | He had been planning it long enough . |
| 28 | He had been saying it nightly now for three nights . |
| 29 | It became apparent that the business was haemorrhaging cash because John 's partner had been spending it unwisely and indiscriminately . |
| 30 | Assuming that Short had been playing it straight , then there remained the question of who stood to lose if Pendero won . |