Example sentences of "be [adv] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 2 | Make sure you 're there when it happens . |
| 3 | Reality Therapy involves confronting the sufferer with the reality of life as perceived by others and helping him or her gradually to change the perception of how life should be so that it comes nearer to how life actually is . |
| 4 | On one level it is yet another accident , and on a second level it is inevitable , it must be so because it belongs here and nowhere else , as the foreign restaurant bill belongs to a novel about human birds of passage , and as the whistle belongs to a novel , in fact the only late Dostoevsky novel , with no children in it but haunted by the toys of absent innocence and peace : the governor of ‘ our province ’ where these crazy terrible events take place was disappointed in love as a young man and consoled himself by making a paper theatre with curtains , actors , audience , orchestra , conductor — the lot . |
| 5 | But in its more extended and generalized uses it can become remarkably similar to the ‘ informing spirit ’ of idealist cultural theories , and this can still be so when it offers ( but does not include or specify ) a ‘ last instance ’ referral to the economy or to the mode of production . |
| 6 | It won' be long before it finishes it 's only |
| 7 | There was a time Clan Gillian could put two hundred galleys to the water , but that time is past , and it may be long till it comes again . |
| 8 | I 'm not as it goes ! |
| 9 | But the third would be best because it deals with the essential needs involved . |
| 10 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 11 | Would rather a cat be out cos it wants to be out . |
| 12 | ‘ The water is rising all the time and I would n't like to be around when it does overflow . |
| 13 | ‘ And I would n't like to be around when it happens . ’ |
| 14 | Where plot might be jettisoned , story is retained as a principle of connection : ‘ Once the story is launched it must go on it must follow its course however crooked it may be even if it takes the wrong direction ’ ( 1976b ) . |
| 15 | Will you be here when it comes , do you think ? |
| 16 | She thought : I must be here because it does n't matter to me much whether I live or die . |
| 17 | It is simply the case that the party should be there while it intends to govern Northern Ireland and it should be exerting itself to offer the voters a real alternative to sectarian politics . |
| 18 | One way to endure severe abuse is not to be there when it happens . |
| 19 | Then at least the fear wo n't be there if it does . |
| 20 | And the green wo n't be there if it 's been irradiated . |
| 21 | Dealers from all over the UK will be there and it sounds like a historians . |
| 22 | I mean you know , sometimes you you see a picture of a place when you 've been there and it does n't even resemble it . |
| 23 | The bombs , guns and paras are there but it avoids stereotypes , reminding us that most of the people in Belfast simply want no truck with the war . |
| 24 | racemic mixture in other words , both are there but it has no ah ! |
| 25 | Both are there but it has no effect on plane polarised light , for instance , like , as if one of them is trying to rotate it to the left by so many degrees and the other one is rotating to the right by the said the amount . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ I wo n't say wish you were here since it rains incessantly and I am not a sadist . |
| 27 | You were there as it happens . |
| 28 | This is presumably because it allows you to explore the knowledge contained therein . |
| 29 | Yes , yes , it does n't compete with the fireplace , we have a , a , er mock fire in there you know , normally in the winter that , that 's on and it looks , it 's very realistic , it almost looks as if it is a fire glowing all the time cos there 's a rotary spinner in it and it flickers , er , and er the room is very warm because it 's central heated anyway and , no I would n't say , it never bothers me the television , I do n't suppose that er , if I were left on my own I 'd hardly have it left on you know I think men watch television more than women . |
| 30 | The humble raisin has been around for at least 2,000 years , but it has n't always been very popular — particularly in the US where novelty is all when it comes to food . |