Example sentences of "it be [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other humans around it are trying to explain to it what a planet is . ’ |
| 2 | The rink 's owners say it simply is n't making money — the clubs that use it are trying to form a consortium to keep it open . |
| 3 | The paper quotes Microsoft officials saying that the 130 to 140 developers working on it are trying to develop an operating system that will provide a consistent means of accessing information with seamless integration of everyday tasks . |
| 4 | Are we going to go for fourteen lane high way , or motorway , on the M twenty five , cos if you do , all the roads that lead from it are going to have to be fourteen lane . |
| 5 | Why should it be seeking to deprive children of a first-class education ? |
| 6 | ‘ Well , what would it be standing shivering around the streets here , telling lies about being in hospital ? |
| 7 | THWAITE hides itself away at the upper end of Swaledale as though it were trying to shelter from the rush and madness of twentieth-century life , and I ca n't say that I blame it . |
| 8 | There were crescents under his eyes like bruises , and his jaw jutted out as though it were trying to overtake his nose . |
| 9 | When you ca n't do something you know , you might actually kind of , your whole body kind of starts to , and that would be the ego as it were trying to express this , this er drive from the id . |
| 10 | Aye it were getting pinched off of me cupboard 's outside the door . |
| 11 | It felt as if it were going to burst . |
| 12 | It 's demoralizing to see what a small area the Universal Church commands . |
| 13 | We 've got a big hole to fill , and it 's getting filled in forty pound lumps at the moment . |
| 14 | It 's getting rid of almost half the workforce at Dowty Seals in Ross-on-Wye . |
| 15 | It 's getting rid of this Government that I 'm concerned about . |
| 16 | Boy it 's getting getting past it . |
| 17 | Boy it 's getting getting past it . |
| 18 | It 's getting married , yes . |
| 19 | " It 's getting started that bothers me . |
| 20 | There 's no one standing there so it 's getting caught up in that traffic jam at the bridge I would have thought they 're all queuing to get on the bridge in the morning . |
| 21 | It 's getting known is n't it , really . |
| 22 | it 's getting shoved in . |
| 23 | It it 's taking taking shape . |
| 24 | It 's hoping to meet the shopkeepers and reach a compromise . |
| 25 | It 's rewarding to rummage around these little mines of information , particularly for free ( or at least the cost of a local call ) . |
| 26 | Use your wipers , ’ he said , ‘ it 's beginning to rain , ’ |
| 27 | It 's beginning to happen in Frankfurt and Paris , but … ’ he trails off in a manner sufficient to make the Continentals want to cut the United Kingdom adrift . |
| 28 | It 's beginning to happen . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's now able to concentrate solely on his football , and it 's beginning to dawn on him just how good he really is . |
| 30 | It 's beginning to help us to understand multiple sclerosis , and there are a number of hormonal or endocrine diseases , such as thyrotoxicosis , underactive thyroid disease , juvenile onset diabetes , rheumatoid arthritis , which are all immunological disorders and erm in which the advances of immunology have contributed to understanding . |