Example sentences of "be [v-ing] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be sure we are seeing it in a grotesquely parodied form , but what leads to Celia being nearly raped is nothing less than the prevailing structures of patriarchal and heterosexual authority : it is after all her hitherto paranoidly jealous husband who has literally dragged her to Volpone 's bed . |
| 2 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick . |
| 3 | FoE 's rainforests campaigner , Tony Juniper , admits that some tree planting is a good idea , but says that " politicians are using it as a green smokescreen to hide the failure of developed countries to cut emissions of carbon dioxide " . |
| 4 | ‘ The Bosnian Serbs are using humanitarian aid as a military weapon and the Bosnian government and Croatian groups are using it as a political weapon . ’ |
| 5 | The majority have simply been using it as a solvent . |
| 6 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 7 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 8 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 9 | People who do n't have a real understanding of vibe are adopting it as a pose . ’ |
| 10 | A group of kids are on a roundabout , one foot on and one foot off , they are pushing it at a giddy speed , round and around until their faces form a single banded blur . |
| 11 | This is a similar sort of thing to passing current through , but this time we 're using it as a battery . |
| 12 | We 're keeping it as a monument to its origins during the war |
| 13 | No , oh , well no , we 're painting it as a female problem exclusively , but one that 's been |
| 14 | When they measure your speed , they 're measuring your velocity really , they 're measuring it in a particular direction , along that road . |
| 15 | It sounds like they 're forcing it with a jemmy , but they 're not . |
| 16 | no cos we 're doing my , taping my , we 're doing it onto a tape , music from L A Law , so what do we need to do ? |
| 17 | He took a drink and went on , " Okay , so they 're invading Earth , but they 're doing it as a tax dodge so that — " |
| 18 | They 're doing it for a dictionary for erm sch for students . |
| 19 | Well , he says he says , We 're we 're doing it with a with a with a er a diamond tool . |
| 20 | As ever , ESP are busy doing the obvious thing , but they 're doing it in a manner a cut above some of the other ‘ rawk ’ guitar manufacturers . |
| 21 | And we 're doing it in a second time . |
| 22 | They 're talking about going with us certainly , but they 're doing it in a positive way because they see what the future is . |
| 23 | speed if you 're doing it in a |
| 24 | because you 're doing it in a very different coordinate system which is |
| 25 | There 's just time for a quick flip through the Highway Code and then your , but the test is even more daunting when you 're taking it on a 15 ton steam roller . |
| 26 | But on paper you can see that you 're intending it as a an augmented interval . |
| 27 | So we 're showing it in a peaceful way because in the end of course we can destroy by the ballot and not the bullet . |
| 28 | It 's all going to it er , they 're putting it into a ma massive voice bank . |
| 29 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 30 | It 's chamber music , to all intents and purposes , and they 're receiving it like a home run . |