Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we 're losing track of what this actually is Paul , there are , you 're trying to do two things at once what you 're trying to do , I think is use it as a learning process for children but this is an annual report for parents and I think that part of it a at least surely must be a report by the sa member of staff , by the department on how the child has done , by the member staff . |
| 2 | So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it . |
| 3 | All you do is apply it to a cleansed bare face and give it a few hours to work . |
| 4 | I 've been filling it in in pencil . |
| 5 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 6 | So to find out how much you 've used , you 've got to multiply it by how long you 've been using it for . |
| 7 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 8 | Trouble is with this quarter , with this discount I 'm probably not going to get to a hundred pound at the office because I 've been using it at home so much . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , the people who make the system decided to redesign the bit that connects the two computers — they 've been redesigning it for months . |
| 11 | Well I better not tell them because it will completely spoil their holiday but erm it 's h it 's interesting because we 've been mentioning it to other people I 'm sure they 've never . |
| 12 | ‘ I bet you 've been discussing it with Ian , who , nice as he is , is a male vet , and they 're like the farmers . |
| 13 | You you 've been taking it for how long ? |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 15 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
| 16 | They 've been building it for God knows how long , cancelling trains , people ca n't get on or off the platforms . |
| 17 | Except for it 's dead hot still if you 're not careful , if you 've been cooking it in the over or something |
| 18 | And they 've been making it for right on four years now , backed by the colourful and wily One Little Indian label , earning themselves Single Of The Week round here pretty much every time they put one out , and doing quite nicely in end-of-year writers ' charts too . |
| 19 | You 've been doing it to each other all the time but if I were to hurt you or if anybody else here were to hurt you physically or mentally how many times would you forgive them ? |
| 20 | They 've been doing it to Albanians at . |
| 21 | I 've been doing it without thinking . |
| 22 | I 've been doing it without you taking much notice for thirty years . ’ |
| 23 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 24 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 25 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 26 | I 've been doing it for years . |
| 27 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 28 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 29 | I used to say Uncle I do n't lie , you know you 're do oh I 've been doing it for years you all that sort of thing you know . |
| 30 | I , I think most people would feel , we 've been doing it for such a while |