Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] it [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I I 'm I think that er I 'm less worried about dating it cos I think it actually quite important to date it , like the war memorial ground and actually fairly closely although it 's not actually dated to the end of the war , I mean it was nineteen fifty two when it was established . |
| 2 | Birds leave their roosts and take to the skies ; monkeys jump away through the branches to find breakfast , and antelope disperse once more over the open plains to graze , knowing that if danger comes they stand a good chance of seeing it before it gets lethally close . |
| 3 | Yes well I think I told him a wrong , you see , there were two there there are two ways of tackling it and I do n't think the way I told him is what they want for the examination purposes , at all ! |
| 4 | That 's it like a desk that 's really that that was the American way of spelling it but we spell it that way now . |
| 5 | did you have the power of vetoing it if you wanted ? |
| 6 | Thus where the discretionary fund management arm of a conglomerate receives confidential information from the corporate finance arm about Company X , the fund management arm may be prevented from using the information of disclosing it if it has actual knowledge of the breach of confidence or possibly where it ought to have known of the breach . |
| 7 | He had begun his account , intending to tell Lyn the whole of it , but now that he had reached the point of disclosing the site of the hole into the mine and of describing it and what happened there , he felt uneasy . |
| 8 | We suggested in the last chapter that in some situations you might think about producing a lecture on video instead of recording it as it happens . |
| 9 | Or , what was your way of doing it before you said ? |
| 10 | I do n't think I would actually want to be a producer , but I know I 'm capable of doing it if I chose to . ’ |
| 11 | I would n't have dreamed of doing it if I 'd known he was dead . ’ |
| 12 | If it was suicide , then it was a bleedin' elaborate way of doing it and he changed his mind half way down . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah well if , it 's a stupid way of doing it when you 've got a boiler that 's heating up , you can just wait on a bit |
| 14 | sometimes there is a sense of doing it because it needs practising ; |
| 15 | Notts ' new cricket manager Mike Hendrick thrust the 22-year-old seamer into the senior squad while Andy Pick nursed a shoulder injury , and claimed : ‘ The lad has got a chance of making it if he goes on working and improving . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'll have more chance of finding it if we search separately , ’ Donna suggested . |
| 17 | whatever o overtime they sling at me , I 'll do not because I feel like doing it but I need to do it there 's |
| 18 | Would he 've had time to take it home in between stealing it and me finding him ? |
| 19 | I must admit that I got fed up with pursuing it and I think it 's like banging your head against a brick wall in the end . |
| 20 | ‘ If you put as much into running it as you do into describing it , you 'll have a good chance . |
| 21 | Oh no I did n't I said I I did I was bit embarrassed about doing it because I 've already changed it twice , he said well he rang me again I said oh he must of got his records wrong . |
| 22 | That has always been the case , we have always been criticised for doing it but I find it outstandingly noticeable this year . |
| 23 | She consumed the contents quickly before replacing it as she had the box . |
| 24 | A third party coming into possession of confidential information is accordingly liable to be restrained from publishing it if he knows the information to be confidential and the circumstances are such as to impose on him an obligation in good conscience not to publish . |
| 25 | Raise the tank temperature to 70°F. before adding it as it works better at higher temperatures . |
| 26 | Plenty of praise should be given when the dog responds , although there is no point in scolding it if it fails to do anything more than run or sniff around the garden . |
| 27 | Well you 've taken the colour out there obviously in photocopying it but you 've also got to be crafty and think of things like that as well . |
| 28 | " She wanted to do it , she was one of the type who believed in doing it because she wanted to . |
| 29 | It will take a great deal of money to do it properly and I 'm only interested in doing it if I have the support to give me a chance of winning . |
| 30 | Well there are a number of spaces that are in positions which could be used by disabled , in other words , they are not sort of , sandwich tight against other spaces and what 's happened in the past is that erm when a need has arisen an and when perhaps there 's been er generally a bungalow that has been er , occupied by somebody who 's disabled then the housing department have erm modified that space I mean , wha what we 've actually done is we 've er , taken a certain amount of block paving out but put back some block paved logo , sort of , standard white er symbol that erm that identifies disabled space and and , and that space is actually earmarked for that person , and it could happen in a variety of different locations erm it 's just that there 's probably not so much point in doing it until you know that there is er a specific need . |