Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] it [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after signing it Barzani said , ‘ It is all a ruse . |
| 2 | The plaintiffs claim that they suffered loss and damage as a result of the defendants breach of contract er my Lord erm essentially having completed on this purchase they then tried er to run the business financially and in accordance with the terms of the lease , erm but it 's all been the plaintiff 's evidence that right from the start erm he was well prepared that there was insufficient working capital and insufficient funds er to run this business properly and efficiently and indeed shortly after purchasing it advice was sought about er re-sale and er if your Lordship looks at page eighty eight of the pleadings bundle which twenty one the plaintiff 's case on page eighty eight , the top of the page my Lord . |
| 3 | ( Nearly 30 years after writing it Leonard was enthusiastically recommending our attendance at a Chagall exposition on Sherbrooke Street . ) |
| 4 | Mr Simpson said that he rejected the footage , which purported to depict ‘ the greatest single-day defeat for Soviet troops since World War II ’ , as untrustworthy after reviewing it frame by frame . |
| 5 | In fact it works so well that within a few days of installing it friends were asking if they could fax me printed documents that they had always wanted to store on disk . |
| 6 | That 's a great benefit of doing it sort of erm nationally . |
| 7 | You would n't think of doing it years ago |
| 8 | Poor Crossley became the laughing stock of a 19,326 crowd when Vinnie Jones overhit a through ball , leaving the Forest No 1 with the seemingly easy task of collecting it yards ahead of the advancing Clarke . |
| 9 | Instead of claiming it year by year , you just fill in a form when you apply for your mortgage . |
| 10 | is it worth rewinding it Charlotte ? |
| 11 | Another comment described the work as a ‘ very , very luxurious painting ’ , having ‘ the life and energy that it 's got because of the colour underneath giving it life and vitality ’ . |
| 12 | I got told off for calling it Pakistan . |
| 13 | The redevelopment of the er derelict factory site into smaller industrial units and making it er a form of want for a better phrase , enterprise zone where thanks to subsidies from the government and the E E C , we will look into making it rate free , reduced rents , etc. , er increase capital allowances for companies going in there so you could attract the needed capital intensive industries that will meet the high tech need that we have the need to have to create high tech jobs . |
| 14 | He regularly plays the ball outside the 18-yard area before kicking it upfield . |
| 15 | It was puny and small , for all the anguish in giving it birth . |
| 16 | It may be possible to distract a horse in some other way than in giving it food , so that it tolerates being shod . |
| 17 | In making it Curtis helped to unleash a force which before long would profoundly challenge the British claim to dominion in India . |
| 18 | Thin your hair without cutting it love . |
| 19 | What , without having it sort of with an aerial ? |
| 20 | Without realizing it Macmillan trespassed on the modern constitutional convention . |
| 21 | On Feb. 10 President Hashemi Rafsanjani said that Iran was the victim of " propaganda blackmail " aimed at denying it access to nuclear technology . |
| 22 | Thanks for raising it Jim . |
| 23 | The idea is simply to starve the Candida in the gut , by denying it sugar . |
| 24 | The jury had been confined to an hotel overnight and , in the judgment of Lord Lane , C.J. , any risk of prejudice was capable of being overcome by denying it access to radio and television . |
| 25 | By revealing it von Weizsacker hopes to shake the dunderheaded British out of their lethargy . |
| 26 | At the end of 1862 Chicherin gave his letter to Herzen a wider currency by assigning it pride of place in a book of essays on the principal political questions of the day . |
| 27 | ( 1981 ) , for instance , revalue women 's lack of egotism , which has strongly negative implications in psychology , by calling it modesty . |
| 28 | Atomizing language by approaching it bottom-up has yielded results for linguistics , but it does not necessarily follow that the same is true for all language students . |
| 29 | A football crew 's reputation could be severely damaged by giving it toes ( getting chased ) at Fulham Broadway . |
| 30 | To start with you must teach the computer to recognise your writing by giving it examples of the way you write individual letters . |