Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] it [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , the motorist did NOT ( contrry to The Scotsman 's report ) spend any time looking for a parking space or walking from it to his destination . |
| 2 | Fen stopped short and pulled out a folded map from his pocket and spread it out before her , stabbing at it with his finger . |
| 3 | And the curly-haired bint would not be walking across it on her way home from the pictures . |
| 4 | Matt 's been looking through it for us , I 've not had a chance to look at it yet . |
| 5 | I went looking for it with my cousin Peter . " |
| 6 | He could imagine Durkin boasting about it to everyone . |
| 7 | If you have forgotten anything , you can always phone whoever has a key to your house or is looking after it for you . |
| 8 | It was a very ill-ordered household , Mary and Claire looking after it between them in a slapdash way . |
| 9 | When Pennant visited it in 1772 there were three farmers living in it with their stock and crops and at times in the summer months as many as twelve families were known to stay in it at once and it was the headquarters of those employed in the manufacture ( if kelp . |
| 10 | He 's been sat there all day like a stuffed dummy , then he suddenly comes to life , grabs the dinner and runs off with it trailing between his legs , tripping and stumbling over it in his anxiety to have it all to himself . |
| 11 | Noreen had a small voice and relied on people listening to it for its full effect . |
| 12 | After listening to it on his headphones for a few minutes , Syrian George stopped the tape , looked Mikalis up and down and turned to Coleman . |
| 13 | She banged the door , pushing at it with her foot because her hands were occupied . |
| 14 | ‘ Chewing gum , ’ she informed Bridget , picking at it with her fingernails as she did so . |
| 15 | That was a bit far fetched I suppose but erm you wo n't be looking at it for it is believable or not . |
| 16 | There was something that seemed very easy for lots of these people , and I was looking at it as somebody who did n't feel quite so easy about what they were doing . |
| 17 | You are only looking at it from our point of view though are n't you , I mean they , they 're going to look at it from the point of view that they can possibly obtain sixteen zero zero fours , although they 'd obviously like to get them cheaper , but at a price that makes the the overall package that contains that bearing and a six eight O seven cheaper than than the package that we would like them to use which inc would incorporate six zero zero fours , and er whatever after . |
| 18 | Er , and you can spend some time looking at it in your own time , I E , going at your own pace , over the problems . |
| 19 | Erm well it depends erm the , the economics of power production are extremely erm er complex and , and t to a certain extent arbitrary erm and erm I mean there , there are various ways that the government can actually get out of this fix because obviously it 's caused a lot of concern to close the , the mines , and one is actually to , to subsidize the mines and put the price on to electricity bills er the other is to subsidize the mines er but pay for it out of the , out of , er out of taxes so it 's a basic , instead of paying for it on your electricity bill , you pay for it on your tax bill , yeah . |
| 20 | But you 're paying for it in your tax , you you 'd paid a whopping subsidy on it , it 's a big con . |
| 21 | One of his body squires heard him whispering about it to his Gascon favourite . ’ |
| 22 | He went all out at a new piece , rushing into it with lots of enthusiasm and wrong notes , trying to make it sound like the finished piece as soon as possible . |
| 23 | The only person she could imagine lying in it with her was Guido . |
| 24 | I pour a hot coffee , and sit sipping at it in my kitchen armchair . |
| 25 | Cinzia Miletti was lying across it on her back , bent slightly to one side , fully clothed , her eyes closed . |
| 26 | Dr Jaffery knew the building as well as anyone and I much looked forward to going around it with someone who had studied it for so many years . |
| 27 | She followed him to the lift , terrified of stepping into it with him and finding it empty ! |
| 28 | WALL AFTER WALL of raging water rose up and thundered on to the strange craft intent on destroying it and the frail humans clinging to it for their lives . |
| 29 | And was she getting over it with her , was she getting better ? |
| 30 | The Court acknowledged that the Registry could not make a decision binding upon it in its judicial capacity . |