Example sentences of "it be [v-ing] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we share his horror as he observes in himself , experiences almost passively — as if it were happening to someone else — the emergence of the tempting desire to murder Duncan ( ‘ suggestion ’ still had the sense of diabolic temptation ) : There , with amazing speed , and as if parenthetically ( ‘ whose murder yet ’ ) we become privy to the secret that sets him apart from the others on stage , the goal to which all his energies will ultimately be directed . |
| 2 | Just see if it 's speaking to me . |
| 3 | It 's confessing to our fraud . ’ |
| 4 | He says you lot ca n't play and it 's getting to him , it 's too much work for him to take on , what with his writing and everything . |
| 5 | I said to myself , ‘ Oh boy , it 's getting to him . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's getting to us a bit but it 's making us even more determined . |
| 7 | But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent . |
| 8 | It 's calling to me in my mind , and it 's horrible ! ’ |
| 9 | It 's presenting to my superiors that I find really scary . |
| 10 | It 's happening to me . |
| 11 | You mean the animals ca n't identify what it is , but they they feel that whatever is it 's leading to their destruction ? |
| 12 | Should any branch have any complaint to make they must do so to their branch secretary who must submit the matter to the branch , it 's talking to yourself . |
| 13 | It 's coming to something , I hope them buggers do n't get in . |
| 14 | Well it 's got to I think we 've , look what it 's doing to yourself |
| 15 | Then you 'll find out for yourself what it 's doing to me , just being this near to you . ’ |
| 16 | Look what it 's doing to me ! |
| 17 | Do you know what it 's doing to me , standing here seeing you in that robe and wondering just how much you 've got on under it ? |
| 18 | ‘ Barney , it 's a wretched , miserable business and I can only guess what it 's doing to you . |
| 19 | We 'd be the last people to see what it 's doing to us . |
| 20 | I ca n't stand it , what it 's doing to us — to both of us . |
| 21 | Yeah I 'm wondering whether it 's playing to itself , with the television off . |
| 22 | Balcon , for one , was not aware of any frustration on the part of his filmmakers , unless he was dishonest when remarking in his autobiography , ‘ It is puzzling to me in retrospect that none of my films … in any way reflected the despair of the times in which we were living . ’ |
| 23 | IBM Corp is expected to announce today that it is switching to what it calls value-based pricing for mainframe software , charging on either a per-user or elapsed time used basis ; the company issued a cryptic statement in response to the Financial Times story alleging that Louis Gerstner had put the break-up of IBM on hold , saying that Gerstner had not said such a thing for public consumption and that he had no plans to do so . |
| 24 | In these sorts of circumstances , the teacher 's predominant practical concern is not with the learning experiences of individual students , but with the overall ‘ instructional flow ’ of the lesson with how well it is proceeding to its intended conclusion and maintaining order as it does so . |
| 25 | By comparison with the intellectual patriarchs of Anglo-Saxon democracy , it is astounding to what degree the patron saints of Soviet Communism , Marx and Engels , made war — interstate and civil — an object of study and the raw materials for their theories and insights . |
| 26 | It is according to my watch anyway . |
| 27 | The egoist , like the puritan , must inhibit his immediate response in obedience to a principle : ‘ It is happening to him and not to me , I have no reason to care . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ There is a lot of denial and it is very difficult to talk about the abuse when it is happening to you , especially if you are a researcher as you do n't have much contact with the person on a regular basis , ’ Ogg says . |
| 29 | Lot number eight Lot eight there we are there it is showing to you , Lot number eight and I 'm offered a hundred pounds to start me on it , one hundred pounds and ten , twenty , one hundred and twenty pounds at a hundred and twenty pounds all s all done at one twenty , one thirty , forty a hundred and forty pounds selling for one hundred and forty pounds , any more at one hundred and forty pounds . |
| 30 | We are extremely pleased that it is coming to our own Festival , as part of its Irish tour . |