Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 61 | If it has n't , is it worth our er now sending it to them , because if they do n't come here , at least we 've then submitted something in writing . |
| 62 | continue to jog people 's memory to actually get collecting and get sending it to you . |
| 63 | In the bedroom Rufus retells my story , condensing it like it was Reader 's Digest . |
| 64 | Thank you for sharing it with me . ’ |
| 65 | She prevaricated , wanting the story verified or denied before sharing it with him , but he could n't be expected to know that . |
| 66 | It was n't fair that your grandmother left her fortune to him instead of sharing it with you just because he 's a man and she had an old-fashioned prejudice that women should n't own money . |
| 67 | My life is here , and I have no intention of sharing it with you , not if you offered me an Empire , let alone a castle in Scotland and the fortune of a man whom I despised and who I warned you would treat you badly . |
| 68 | Slamming it after him , a look of disgust on her face , Hilary poured out her tea then carried the cup to the table and sat nursing it in her palms . |
| 69 | First , most clients tell the solicitor what they want and he sets about getting it for them . |
| 70 | — But do n't take off , mind , while I 'm getting it for you ! ’ |
| 71 | I 've tried a few ways of getting it off her … offering to telephone for her and so on , thinking she might improve if that was off her mind … ‘ |
| 72 | She now suspected that they had known long before and were breaking it to her gradually . |
| 73 | ‘ There was an arrangement , I freely admit it , ’ he said , bravely breaking it to her and gazing out across the valley as to a disappearing dream . |
| 74 | But I see no point in teaching it to them backwards . |
| 75 | Neil Williams ( see the September issue ) was flying it for him and , the initial tests complete and the aeroplane signed off by Mike Searle , Spencer was ready for his first sortie . |
| 76 | ‘ Offensive weapon means any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to the person or intended by the person having it with him for such use by him , or by some other person , per section 1(4) Prevention Of Crime Act 1953 as amended by the Public Order Act 1986 Schedule 2 paragraph 2 . |
| 77 | A weapon of offence is defined in s.10(1) ( b ) as " any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to or incapacitating a person or intended by the person having it with him for such use " . |
| 78 | All their eyes were turned on Rose but she , with just a glance at Moran , took up the Second Mystery as if she had been saying it with them all the nights of their lives . |
| 79 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 80 | Why was they saying were they saying it to you then ? |
| 81 | Sixty-seven of them and you get sick at the sixty-eighth ’ , it is as if he is saying it to us over his shoulder as he bends down to examine another body . |
| 82 | But there was no sense in her giving it to me in full view of everyone . |
| 83 | ‘ You 're giving it to me ? ’ |
| 84 | It 's trusting me to understand the significance of it and why they are giving it to me . ’ |
| 85 | Mummy dropped it when she was giving it to me . |
| 86 | She accused the widow of stealing her husband 's love away from her by dosing the milk of the dead cow and giving it to him to drink . |
| 87 | wondering whether it 's I 'm giving it to him , to him or what . |
| 88 | She was going no ! and I was writing yes ! and giving it to him . |
| 89 | It 's all right , ’ Sarah said , picking up the purse and giving it to her . |
| 90 | To her , as to Edmund , the question of legitimacy is a nuisance to be subverted : When Goneril 's ‘ trusty servant ’ , Oswald , bears a letter from her to Edmund , Regan attempts to corrupt him into giving it to her ( IV.v.20ff . ) . |