Example sentences of "to be [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have to be a bit more incisive out wide but at least after our poor start to the League season we seem to be getting it together at last . ’ |
| 2 | I have become convinced that our whole approach is hopelessly unscientific , in fact wrong , and particularly that my own reconstruction is so fundamentally flawed that we really do n't have the right to be displaying it anywhere except in a Disneyland type of amusement park . ’ |
| 3 | Feel a bit sorry for her , but she seems to be enjoying it so . |
| 4 | ‘ Why do n't you give our young friend a hand with her backpack ? — After all , she 's going to be lugging it all round Madrid this afternoon . ’ |
| 5 | Erm because it is an onerous task , erm onerous in terms of the time that needs spending doing the job even if it 's relatively simple in terms of what needs to be done it still takes time and there 's still running around to do . |
| 6 | Er so er er Gillian seems to be taking it very well actually , I think it 's erm , quite a relief , relief erm |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , everyone seems to be taking it so seriously . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It wo n't do to be saying it backwards , or inside out , or to be missing a bit out that 's important , or adding a piece from another enchantment . |
| 9 | He seemed to be saying it as much to convince himself as to convince all the rest . |
| 10 | They 're supposed to be doing it again . |
| 11 | And the second point I make is that if there are fools who are doing it wrongly then some of you ought to be doing it correctly . |
| 12 | But they 're doing this and they seem to be doing it quite unstressed . |
| 13 | She claimed to be doing it only for Jeeta , but there was real , wilful contrariness in it , I suspected . |
| 14 | Large companies still seem to be finding it increasingly difficult to retain top management . |
| 15 | None of them seem to be finding it so terribly difficult to just sit on their brooms . |
| 16 | Internally , Intel is thought to be finding it much harder and certainly more costly to produce new iterations of its iAPX-86 series than it expected . |
| 17 | He seemed to be finding it more than puzzling . |
| 18 | I would n't have it , she 's supposed to be spending it tonight . |
| 19 | You 'll have to be play it very carefully on the er on the Thursday and not look as if you , yeah |
| 20 | but you 're allowed , supposed to be allowed it so it tallies up with test certificate , twenty eight days |