Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] it [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are encouraged to use it , rewarded for using it and disapproved of as ‘ unfeminine ’ if they fail to use it . |
| 2 | I fantasized about poisoning it and killing us all , even Davey , even little , innocent , favoured Davey . |
| 3 | They were apprehensive about opening it and sent for the Bomb Squad . |
| 4 | Happily , after rectifying it and laying down coconut matting ( ! ) , the year ended with a small surplus , although £100 was owing on the building , and £140 had been spent on the Club 's first tractor ! |
| 5 | One night I dreamt about it : about the dog going over to look at it , as it sometimes did , and instead of sniffing it and walking away , it tore open the anus and started to pull out the innards . |
| 6 | Spokesman Graham Sharpe is optimistic about a reconciliation and asks : ‘ What better way of proving it than having another child ? ’ |
| 7 | Terror gripped her so completely that she was incapable of opening it and let it fall to the floor where — she very nearly followed it in a faint . |
| 8 | The connotations of this in the creation of manhood were made clear by Baden Powell , founder of the Scout movement , who observed that masturbation checks the semen from getting its full chance of making the strong , manly man : ‘ You are throwing away the seed that has been handed down to you as a trust instead of keeping it and ripening it for bringing a son to you later on . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm thinking actually of here in the university itself , we 've got three different groups in those areas that are now collaborating , and I think we 've got a good chance of _ especially in the area of schools curricula — but also in the area , I think , of helping business people , and I 'm thinking now of senior management , who might be your and my age , Brian , for whom computers did n't exist when we went through university or college , erm who 've probably more or less given up any hope of understanding it and understanding the computer boffins who have taken over — almost taken over the company at times , one suspects . |
| 10 | The short process of giving birth to a baby seemed to her a triviality compared to the long haul of rearing it that lay ahead . |
| 11 | I take the view that a collection of material which is consonant with our acquisitions policy in other respects , should be accepted on the assumption that we must find a way of preserving it and making it available . |
| 12 | The house is a mobile home , carried about as the caddis walks , like the shell of a snail or hermit crab except that the animals builds it instead of growing it or finding it . |
| 13 | ‘ We were raided on Monday by customs with the specific intention of confiscating it and sticking it in a zoo somewhere , ’ he said . |
| 14 | He 's been through it all , has ol' Slow Hand — alcoholism and drug addiction , and most recently the tragic death of his only child — but as this record amply demonstrates , he 's still capable of mixing it when called upon to do so . |
| 15 | Er so we are all very keen to see this get these extra fire fighters but as he has n't identified the source for which they could pay more , this believes that fifty thousand pounds which slices , there is a good way of doing it and suggest that that 's the way we should do it . |
| 16 | Erm the only thing that occurred to me I just wondered if she knew somebody who had a dearly loved dog that , did n't want to train it but you know she could perhaps just take along for the joy of running it and training it but I think part of the pleasure is the reflected glory you know it 's my dog |
| 17 | Despite Hojjatoleslam Rafsanjani 's assurances that the object of Karbala No 5 was not Basrah , Iran had not quite abandoned all hope of taking it and made another attempt in April , again approaching by way of Fish Lake and claiming numerous Iraqi losses . |
| 18 | If a trailer begins to ‘ snake ’ , the swinging often develops so quickly that within seconds there is no way of stopping it and avoiding going right off the road . |
| 19 | Because of the vast size of it and the difficulty of controlling it when sailing single-handed , the spinnaker was n't a sail he used much and it was right at the bottom at the aft end of the sail-locker . |
| 20 | Users may be in the process of endorsing it or adding module and SPR relations to it . |
| 21 | Well not only instead of leaving it but using , she was n't quite sure she was pressing delete and |
| 22 | I , you know I , I just loathe the thought of leaving it and leaving it until the next thing is you 're going up for her funeral you know ? |
| 23 | There it is , God in his mercy and his love , in his graciousness he has provided a gift , a free package gift for you and for me forgiveness , salvation but there is our responsibility of receiving it or taking hold of it , of experiencing it . |
| 24 | In 1991 the Norseman was purchased by the Township of Red Lake with the aim of restoring it and mounting it on ‘ the pole ’ . |
| 25 | forget the error or the cause of the problem and get on with correcting it and avoiding a worse situation . |
| 26 | He was not so much concerned , as the tribal sculptor was , with conveying his idea about an object , but rather with recording it or interpreting it in pictorial terms . |
| 27 | They came into the hallway before opening it and taking out rubber surgical gloves . |
| 28 | I love being in France and I recently bought an old barn there and took great pleasure in rebuilding it and making a garden . |
| 29 | You see , he knew he would get more income in the long run from returning your hat than from keeping it and selling it . ’ |
| 30 | This was never a very promising argument , seeing that the notice is addressed to the defendants and not to the plaintiffs , and the defendants themselves have made it clear that they have no difficulty in understanding it and complying with it . |