Example sentences of "[v-ing] to it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 2 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 3 | You , you were listening to it on the radio . |
| 4 | Watching it or listening to it on the |
| 5 | Sky T V so they were either watching it on their own or being very neighbourly with their neighbours or listening to it on the radio or as you say , up in Liverpool . |
| 6 | However anyone looking to it for an explanation of how women have come to be excluded so completely from the control of machines , or even for a theoretical framework within which to pose such a question , is in for a disappointment . |
| 7 | THE Labour Party 's land policy paper , Planning a New Agenda , has been called partially flawed by Christopher Jonas replying to it for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 8 | But she 's adding to it by the month with a lucrative round of speaking engagements all over the world at up to £125,000 a time . |
| 9 | It was planned as a pilgrimage church with a large crypt for the relics and with stairways leading to it from the aisles . |
| 10 | In part it 's down to S&M mainstream fashion ; in part to the rise of interest in all forms of body art ; in part to the fact that gays are turning to it as a form of safer sex ( hardly the sort of thing that should be criminalised ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I think … ’ he began , pointing to it with the point of his umbrella . |
| 12 | The humans below tried shining coloured lights at it , and playing tunes at it , and eventually just speaking to it in every language known to humans . |
| 13 | If we allow the King 's Cross Railways Bill to proceed and in the end no high-speed link or underground link between Stratford and King 's Cross is built , we shall be left with an enormous white elephant at King 's Cross with no means of getting to it from the channel tunnel . |
| 14 | No Moslem could have greeted the sight of its medieval columns with more glee than the clapped-out crews of the TransaDeuche for , even though the place is a little less remote these days , it was still a pretty formidable achievement getting to it in a vehicle not really designed to leave the Left Bank . |
| 15 | With any luck , it should not need much doing to it over the next few years . |
| 16 | This means that removal of the event or object prevents the child from responding to it in a pleasant and rewarding way . |
| 17 | It might be suggested that it is only through the presence of the frame that we recognize the work of art for what it is , perceiving it and responding to it in the appropriate way . |
| 18 | He writes : ‘ If we are pressed to see in the doctrine of the Trinity some clue to the sense that gender … must have something corresponding to it in the God-head , one would find in the unconditioned Unity of God something like the feminine in creation , while the differentiated Persons , on the other hand , have each a masculine denomination . ’ |
| 19 | Our classification of references to the care programme approach along a hypothetical assimilation-adaptation continuum suggests that roughly half of local authorities which mention the care programme approach in their plans seemed to have assimilated it , and half were adapting to it at the time of composing the community care plan . |
| 20 | It publishes just a picture of the Italian ‘ Pendolino ’ referring to it as a ‘ prototype ’ in the caption . |
| 21 | Nor were their questioners less than frank in referring to it as a " union " . |
| 22 | However , he was much more explicit in his references to the nature of ‘ adolescence ’ , referring to it as the age of ‘ terrible peril ’ which had to be responded to ; the ‘ wayward forces ’ had to be ‘ rightly directed ’ , so that the ‘ new instincts and impulses , the new faculties and powers … shall be rightly exercised and trained , and that protection shall be given as far as possible against the temptations to which it is exposed ’ . |
| 23 | I may indeed remind my friend of a thought I had by referring to it as the one I had on first wakening in Venice . |
| 24 | This relationship was discovered by Gauss who recognized its importance by referring to it as the ‘ Excellent ’ Theorem . |
| 25 | Referring to it as an artificial " pampered velveteen system " , the union journal was scathing about its " pretentions " : The small office in Edinburgh called the Caledonian Press … was opened a year ago , under the patronage of many of the nobility and members of the learned professions : yet with all its boasting about promoting the employment of women … and opening up a fresh field … to the " surplus female population " … it actually employs fewer women than any simple respectable milliner , of whose philanthropy the world takes little note . |
| 26 | She stood stroking the animal and murmuring to it for a moment longer before glancing around the hut . |
| 27 | When Zen reached the gate the security guard was back in his place , but he was so intent on the spluttering exclamations of his walkie-talkie , cradling it to his face and murmuring to it like a mother trying to calm a baby , that Zen 's departure went as unremarked as his arrival . |
| 28 | He 's got this really boring name — Stuart Hughes , I ask you , there 's a career in soft furnishings for you , no qualifications needed except the perfect name , sir , and you 've got it — and he 's quite complacent about answering to it for the rest of his days . |