Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] it [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The purpose of the administration order is to allow the company an opportunity of finding an investor or partner thereby allowing it to survive , ’ said Jason Elles . |
| 2 | Within the union , therefore , Scargill 's call was for solidarity , for those with more readily-guaranteed futures to support other miners ' prospects which were less bright , especially so if the NCB could capitalize on splits and other weaknesses within the NUM , thereby enabling it to isolate vulnerable areas . |
| 3 | This keeps the register ‘ live ’ and provides a steady income for the UKCC , so helping it to move towards financial independence from government subsidy . |
| 4 | If you take it to make yourself numb , in order to forget or to help you sleep , you are only using it to mask the symptoms of a distressing situation which will still be there tomorrow . |
| 5 | The problem with keeping the original ( e.g. as a photocopy , with sections highlighted ) is that you have n't really done anything with it yet : you have n't assimilated it or made it your own , in the sense of fitting it with ( and so allowing it to affect ) your existing thoughts and knowledge . |
| 6 | At the time of birth , however , an angel strikes its upper lip , so causing it to forget everything that it has seen and learned . |
| 7 | He 's obviously doing it to keep a rhythm going and it certainly seems to work . |
| 8 | Do n't answer , she adjured herself ; it is n't mandatory ; he 's only doing it to annoy you — then found she was totally incapable of being as rude as she wanted to be . |
| 9 | Because sometimes , if the employer goes along , people will think , oh yes , they 're only doing it to get their quota up , and they regard it as something that just helps us , and we can get nearer our quota , and it might be something that we could encourage the unions to help us with , because they could point out the positive benefits to people to be registered , despite the rotten name that they 're called . |
| 10 | Miss chalk and that is terrible of you implying that Miss is only doing it to get her voice on the recorder . |
| 11 | Because she was only doing it to protect herself , to hide the real truth — which was that she 'd have given anything to simply thrown herself into his arms . |
| 12 | He might well be creating havoc with her pulse-rate , but he was only doing it to comfort her after a bad day ; it did n't mean there was anything personal in the action . |
| 13 | I 'm only doing it to wind him up . |
| 14 | That 's all I 'm only doing it to wind them up you see there . |
| 15 | In the beginning I did it to look good , cos I wanted the money , towards the end it was doing it to live , it was literally doing it to live . |
| 16 | However , it would certainly confuse the fox , thereby causing it to run erratically as described . |
| 17 | I mean if you 're into the hit , you 've got to inject then , otherwise you 're just using it to keep the turkey away . |
| 18 | Would it not be far better for the Government to end these punitive and ridiculous double tax payments — the Post Office already pays corporation tax — thus allowing it to concentrate on improving the quality of service to customers rather than pursuing abolition of the second delivery in towns and putting restrictions on rural services such as insisting that people have letter boxes at the bottom of their gardens or , in some cases , making people go to village centres for their letters ? |
| 19 | The last two years of the Eighties saw a glut of products which aimed to fight the ageing process by boosting the skin 's metabolism , thus enabling it to carry out its own regenerative programme more effectively . |
| 20 | Economic history/development over the last two hundred years has resulted in 90 per cent of the world 's manufacturing capacity being situated in the North , thus enabling it to control world trade , investment and financial resources . |
| 21 | On the other hand , it was claimed that Hanson was only interested in short-term profits , rather than long-term investment and that the company was only capable of limited organic growth , thus forcing it to rely on ever larger takeover bids to sustain its expansion . |
| 22 | He has n't asked me yet , not formally , he has n't done the man-to-man bit with my father , I 'm just expecting it to happen one day , maybe . ’ |
| 23 | It 's easy to play — fat , but not too fat — and the question now is just getting it to sound exactly right . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sure he 's just doing it to wind me up . ’ |
| 25 | This garment grew with the child , so she was still wearing it to play in the garden when she was four years old ! |
| 26 | Writing out a fresh job specification enables you to see the job objectively , possibly rethinking it to fulfil a more useful function . |
| 27 | Few people would think seriously about installing a central heating system these days without also using it to provide domestic hot water . |
| 28 | It was so narrow that barges had worn the brickwork to half its normal thickness in scraping through , and mining subsidence was also causing it to crumble . |
| 29 | He had his time-proven tests for this : one was simply to walk over the land and to ‘ feel it through his boots ’ , ; then again he would take up a handful of soil , carefully crumbling it to test it ; or he would bend down and draw his fist backwards through the soil . |
| 30 | It did n't make me drunk , which was what I was confidently expecting it to do . |