Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] it and [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Touring the fort , commanded by Sir Eyre Coote of the 37th Regiment , an unexpected knowledge surfaced : ‘ Dr Johnson talked of the proportions of charcoal and salt-petre in making gunpowder , of granulating it and of giving it a gloss ’ — although he admitted to Boswell afterwards that he had ‘ talked ostentatiously ’ . |
| 2 | Freud acknowledges the unconscious and provides a means of exploring it and of living with it . |
| 3 | But if what it means is to combine a sense of community , a sense of society , a sense of inter-dependent provision and collaboration in doing it and in providing true welfare con , consumerism , the government have chosen the word partnership . |
| 4 | Either way , by 1933 it was evident how successful the holders of local socio-economic power had been in retaining it and in evading or openly flouting unwelcome legislation . |
| 5 | However , even persons as brash as Heath had to recognise continually that the majority was uneasy and dangerous and much effort was expended in monitoring it and in camouflaging the government 's Irish unification objective from the man-in-the-street who , initially , was almost incapable of believing that a British government was endeavouring to cede its own subjects to a foreign power . |
| 6 | Many mums who have apparently short labours have actually been gently dilating for a few days without realising it and without having any of the other traditional ‘ signs ’ of labour : a ‘ show ’ as the plug to the cervix is expelled , waters breaking or the first contractions . |
| 7 | but you 're the only one who can make it work by practising it and by trying it . |