Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] it [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things just gradually start to build up and get on top of you and you either get more into the gear and try to forget about it , or you stop using it and try and sort out what 's left of your life . |
| 2 | If at any time any exercise causes severe discomfort , pain or extreme breathlessness , stop doing it and see your doctor . |
| 3 | Erm remember the hay we would be turning it w with pitchforks you know , and erm not a well goo drying day but you had to risk turning it and hoping that it 'd be dry but er it would be raining again the following day . |
| 4 | If you do n't explore your anger how can you stop internalizing it and shed the costume of the victim ? |
| 5 | I bought exactly what I wanted and I did spend a lot of money , but I enjoyed doing it and had fun . |
| 6 | That 's where he keeps biting it and scratching it . |
| 7 | The importance of affirmation With regard to football it perhaps does not matter very much — people who like playing it or watching it are not likely to be seriously affected by our negative comments ; they will just think that we are stupid and go on playing and watching as before . |
| 8 | I remember trying it and finding it locked . |
| 9 | Then I started studying it and doing charts for friends . |
| 10 | I mean , we just , we just do n't have to keep changing it and talking about it . |
| 11 | She was the sort that keeps coming , that never knows when they 're licked … the mad cockerel I once hit with my toy cricket bat — it was an accident , of course it was , but I had to keep hitting it and hitting it until it was nothing but a bloody pulp on splintered sticks . |
| 12 | And she kept pulling it and making the hole go . |
| 13 | Jinny remembered seeing it and slipping past it because it looked complicated and she was tired . |
| 14 | Since the infinitive evokes the effect , to represent it as a mere result produced on the patient implies representing it as coming after the operation of producing this effect ( = the making ) , whence the use of to express the before/after relationship between the two events . |
| 15 | And I think if you start analysing it and trying to think back to how or why , or questioning why it happened , you start worrying about whether it 's going to happen again , and then it wo n't happen . |
| 16 | Practise reading it and think up a few sentences to explain why you have chosen it . |
| 17 | In that sense , thinking anything adequate about commercial television may well involve ignoring it and thinking about something else : in ( this ) instance , experimental video … . |
| 18 | The wood was roughly finished ; Melissa ran a hand along one of the top rails , collected a splinter in her thumb and stood sucking it while considering the possibilities . |