Example sentences of "be [v-ing] it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Calatin 's banqueting hall and the house in the forest had wavered and grown dim — ‘ as if I am seeing it through water , ’ thought Fergus — and there had been a great heaviness within him so that it was difficult to breathe . |
| 2 | They are using it as part of their module to train for the real business world by setting up their own venture and running it for the school year . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Talbot acted as a primary test site for AppleShare and one of their customers , the Poole Advertiser , has actually been using it in anger for about three months . |
| 5 | or touching it and that pad should be big enough to cover the wound , so you should something , overlaps , alright , and then if you find , if you unwrap the roll a little bit further , you do n't want to unroll it completely , your see that if while you 're using it in practice you need to roll it up again backwards towards the back of the bandage like so , we 'll roll it up again , backwards and when you get to the bandage you just fold the bandage up around the long end and wind the short end round it firmly and there it 's ready for use again in practice , you would n't of course do that for real would you ? |
| 6 | And if we 're keeping it in cash , can we buy some gilts ? or can we buy some fixed interest securities ? |
| 7 | Mind you there again it 's cheaper than it should be because we 're paying it on VAT , you know , it , er , they must think we 're fools |
| 8 | You 're doing it for charity does it I mean is that |
| 9 | Oh , you 're doing it in English are you ? |
| 10 | I do n't think it 's right , my niece Sue does n't think it 's right , they 're doing it in school , it 's part of the national curriculum , as soon as they can form the letters now , they join them , I said I go to King university and I do n't join up my letters |
| 11 | If you 're doing it by calculation , you pick one corner and draw tr |
| 12 | We do n't know if this has finished him , we 're playing it by ear . ’ |
| 13 | You feel helpless , too , because you 're watching it in danger . |
| 14 | They wanted their own announcer , a local girl , not one from London , and as I 'd been presenting it on radio since I was 13 , they asked me to try my hand on television . |
| 15 | Make sure that the story you have for them is interesting and if it is merely constituency information , explain that you are providing it for background briefing and that you are not expecting them to publish it . |
| 16 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
| 17 | His opponent has been doing it since age 14 . ’ |
| 18 | I 've been doing it without thinking . |
| 19 | I am not sure what that means but we are having it for tea . |
| 20 | Only the jobless or even married women and working girls who are doing it for money ? ’ |
| 21 | Some are doing it fe pay |
| 22 | and all we will be talking about when my father-in-law will be coming along , he 's got a tripod , he 's got all the gear , it will be just that probably be plonking it on front of the ground circle actually |
| 23 | You 're supposed to be keeping it under control , Owen . |
| 24 | You gave me your sludge , Universe , he told the cosmos , and I 'm turning it into gold |
| 25 | ‘ They must be doing it off screen , ’ insisted hardened news editors . |
| 26 | so I do that that way when I 'm doing it to practice . |
| 27 | But if you had your name and year at the top you could actually put a simple statement along the bottom because you 'll only be issuing it for year nine |
| 28 | Just , I 'm taking it on holiday with me . |
| 29 | I 'll be taking it on holiday . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah erm , the reason I want to follow it up is because would you not agree er with a number of major companies in this country and in a time of recession rather than cutting back on your marketing and advertising you should in fact be increasing it in fact when the marketing |