Example sentences of "[be] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | he would n't of been touching it with this . |
2 | Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said . |
3 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
4 | ‘ I am using it in yarn-dyed form for things like Tencel/rayon chambray for jackets and dresses . |
5 | but , because I 've been knocking it off that bit earlier |
6 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
7 | Erm but then later on th they 're saying that you you 're accepting it in full and final settlement . |
8 | They 're pushing it like crazy . |
9 | Oh er they 're for some job at Street , they 're wanting it for some job or other . |
10 | So they can enter the secondary schools and they 're selling it to these young kids that just do n't know any better . |
11 | If they 've got any sense at all they should be I mean they 're getting it for free except for the telephone calls you might use |
12 | ‘ I 'm not doing anything to you , ’ he breathed into her ear , ‘ we 're doing it to each other . ’ |
13 | No , cos they 're doing it for all , they 're all doing for all over different places anyway . |
14 | We 're doing it for this little orphanage and it 's all terrible exciting . |
15 | If you 're determined to cry , you 're doing it in private . |
16 | With the move to the new system , we 're abolishing that subsidy , but we 're doing it in two goes : 50% of it this year and all of it will go next year . |
17 | We say yeah but we 're we 're doing it in three stages . |
18 | It 's er , it 's not pleasant for them , and they 're doing it in wet weathers , but I mean whatever erm , I find for them you know , to wear , I mean , time after time they get their feet down and slip and get them in . |
19 | We 're giving it for six months . |
20 | That 's why they 're putting it on this week . |
21 | So they 're taki it 's I think it 's daft because they 're introducing it in nineteen ninety three and they 're taking two age groups instead of taking one . |
22 | The only trouble is with that , if you 're changing it for different albums all the time it can wear out the gears and that . |
23 | They 're changing it to more exams I mean , it changes to G C S E in the first place to get rid of having |
24 | One if you 're increasing it by forty five percent if it was a hundred percent and you increase it by forty five hundred percent |
25 | you 're leaving it like that then ? |
26 | You 're dividing it by ten or you 're of-ing , times-ing , multiplying it by one tenth , it 's the same thing . |
27 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
28 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |
29 | Xhibition — the X-Windows show — calendared for June 15th to 19th in San Jose , California , is expecting to fetch more than 100 exhibitors : Mircosoft Corp and DEC are citing it as one of the key technical conferences to explore NT and ACE applications development . |
30 | Because he knows that somebody else has has been offered it for twenty quid . |