Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In very few cases is homework a freely chosen option and the more women are trapped into it the more likely is the erosion of services , nursery centres and transport , to trap them into it . |
| 2 | They 're looking at it the wrong way . |
| 3 | Thinking about our coastline , seeing that we 're talking about it a bit , what about our white cliffs all along the coast ? |
| 4 | They 're concentrating on it a bit now , are n't they . |
| 5 | We are going about it the proper way and er nevertheless it will be assessed and costed at the end . |
| 6 | ‘ This really shook me this morning although I am getting over it a bit now , ’ she said yesterday . |
| 7 | The traditional Keynesian view of the conduct of monetary policy has been to assign to it the role of interest rate and/or exchange rate stabilization . |
| 8 | Nonetheless , she seemed to be coping with it the best of all of them . |
| 9 | as for trade , it will be encouraged by it every way ; for carriage of all kind of heavy goods will be much easier , the waggoners will either perform in less time , or draw heavier loads , or the same load with fewer horses ; the pack-horses will carry heavier burthens , or travel further in a day … all which will tend to lessen the rate of carriage , and so bring goods cheaper to market . |
| 10 | Now , arriving at his own manor of Kouklia , he recognised as if he had been bred to it the sound and smell and look of each component ; each piece of equipment . |
| 11 | th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident . |
| 12 | All of them were occupied , but , without even a word from Guido , the proprietor snapped his fingers , and even as they were being led towards it an extra table was being laid . |
| 13 | And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day . |
| 14 | Whether ground was distinguished from sky in any other way than by being outlined against it the evidence so far cited does not tell us , but probably some trees and flowers were shown on it , and it may have had something in the nature of shading . |
| 15 | She 's talked about it every day since last winter and I 've listened . |
| 16 | I think she 's going off it a bit so I said oh well I 'll come and have a chat and I said listen , I said , I realize you you 've got a lot of school work and that and you 've got your boyfriend , I said , but there is now way that you 're gon na let him stand in the field , getting fat and getting old you 've got |
| 17 | — Because of the shit that 's put on it every week . |
| 18 | It 's carrying with it a lot of soil , bits of rock , |
| 19 | He 's worked on it every day you 've been gone . |
| 20 | In either case , another chapter is added to a ‘ founding text ’ , a text which both authorizes its own dissemination , and gives everything which is recounted in it the imprimatur of a special truth : this is the word of a chosen people . |
| 21 | There is attached to it an element of ratio between input and output . |
| 22 | Conservative Republicans like Maura and Alcalá Zamora , and even some individuals on the left , recognized the desirability of a modus vivendi between the Church and the Republic , and of the latter 's attracting to it the Catholic sectors of the urban middle class and peasantry . |
| 23 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 24 | I am so excited , I have n't slept since I was told about it a couple of days ago . ’ |
| 25 | But I was told about it the night before I was released ! |
| 26 | But as I was going into it the sun came out , challenging the smell from the night lavatory . |
| 27 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 28 | He was in the middle of more grief than he could deal with , yet he was piling onto it the commonplace misery of subterfuge , as if he had to protect some clandestine happiness that did n't even exist . |
| 29 | He was staring at it the way a cat looks at a dinner-plate . |
| 30 | If I was left to it the first pint would go about |