Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's baloney , of course , but it 's getting them a high degree of visibility . |
| 2 | I 'm sorry , it 's taking me a long time cos I do n't know what to do . |
| 3 | Oh but it 's so wound it 's taking me a lot of time outside . |
| 4 | It 's teaching me a little bit , you see . |
| 5 | I mean they had twenty two thousand people round this year , it 's takes him a week to recover , the poor man . |
| 6 | Nick 's is very eh , expensive in Holland it 's cost him a lot of money . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes — I persuaded poor old Eb to take a drop , and it 's done him a power of good . |
| 8 | Two five five , the reason why the Executive asked for withdrawal was because it 's moving us a bit too fast along this track , and it 's moving us in a particular direction before we 've had the time to think about whether that 's the right direction to go . |
| 9 | It 's costing them a thousand pounds per employee per year . |
| 10 | It 's costing her a lot of money . |
| 11 | Erm I mean I I have some concerns , like Cynthia , about the number of careers officers who suddenly appear when you say there 's a visit to , Hull University , and we 've got people coming from all over the county and it 's costing us a fortune . |
| 12 | It 's costing us a bit of money but er , you know , we do n't do these things for the short term , er |
| 13 | You 're lucky in a way that he 's there , and lucky , too , that he 's got his music and that it 's bringing him a name , for it 's some sort of compensation in the meantime , helping his waiting . ’ |
| 14 | But at the moment , you feel as if they 're getting patted on the head and it 's giving them a push down the wrong way . |
| 15 | Oh it 's designed , it 's giving me a fault . |
| 16 | in other words if you read it without any experience you might start thinking that it 's giving you a vision of the real heaven where as it 's just symbolic |
| 17 | Because it 's giving us a value whether it be a value which |
| 18 | It 's give it a new lease of life . |
| 19 | And it 's makes it a it makes it a different space , totally different . |
| 20 | That long-anticipated non-profit X trade association , the X Industry Association , brainchild of The X Business Group , is getting off the ground : it 's picked itself a chairman in David Harris of Adobe Systems Inc and the board includes Peter Winston of Xhibition , Peter Shaw of AGE Logic Inc , Stephen King of Tektronix , Brian Fitzgerald of Digital Equipment Corp and Michael Harrigan of Network Computing Devices Inc and Anil Malhotra of IXI Ltd ; members include Applied Digital Data Systems , Grafpoint , Hummingbird , Kinesix , Non Standard Logics , Omron , Shographics , TeleSoft , Visual Edge and Walker , Richer & Quinn ; the new body is to market , promote and educate in the name of X , leaving the X Consortium , while it still exists , to grapple with the technical issues . |
| 21 | I 'm not and I tell you honest it 's , it is frightening me a bit . |
| 22 | Study takes time and the best way to use it is to set yourself a programme . |
| 23 | Now yes this is very very welcome indeed , but I do see it Mr Chairman in the experience of the past and that really with the hard work that you both have put in as a piece of paper it is now in the computer as far as I can see and I think there is a term now within agriculture and I will give you an example of this and I think it now , it may apply I think to our road system particular particularly in the north , north Suffolk , yeah I think the term is set-aside , and I hope that some time central government will acknowledge that within this eastern region certainly the Lowestoft area and Waking area we have very great problems , because these pieces of jigsaw do not come into the full picture , they 're put in place now and then and later and in apparent it is giving us a very great problem certainly within the last |
| 24 | Janet Parsons knows what it is to find yourself a victim of crime . |
| 25 | It was leaving it a little bit late , even if there was the possibility of serious trouble in the summer , not to be talking about it . |
| 26 | on the way back it was pushing it a bit . |
| 27 | Whether it was give it a better flavour or no , I do n't know but we never used the saltpetre . |
| 28 | In the early stages it was finding them a deal , or moving them to the next level up . ’ |
| 29 | At least it was giving me a weekend on my boat . |
| 30 | It was giving everyone a lot of pleasure . |