Example sentences of "it [prep] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because , because I I do feel sorry , I I sorry I consider it for not having any young new members . |
| 2 | So , she 's not one to play on it for not going to school though , so |
| 3 | So what you do as a trainer in a circus you try and encourage the animal to want to the act and to reinforce it for so doing and that may be food , it may be actually just affection for the people who are training and that 's what a trainer wants to try and . |
| 4 | Some became pregnant through contraceptive failure , such as missing taking the Pill for a day , or a faulty condom , but most do it through not using any kind of contraception at all . |
| 5 | is it worth actually circulating any of the P R firms in Glasgow like |
| 6 | Wilson , of 8th Signals , Catterick Garrison , had just bought it after deliberately going in search of the drug because he wanted to try it , the court martial was told . |
| 7 | Consumer chiefs put a rocket under Michael Heseltine 's Department of Trade and Industry in yesterday 's Echo , accusing it of massively underestimating firework injury risks . |
| 8 | In what has been described as the first case of its kind in Britain , Greenpeace is taking the chemical concern ICI to court , accusing it of illegally discharging pollutants . |
| 9 | The Government 's earlier reluctance to put its hand in its pocket had led property experts to accuse it of unwittingly aiding and abetting the IRA 's efforts to disrupt the City . |
| 10 | If you have n't done that yet do it now because the practice of writing it of actually copying it down is important . |
| 11 | She took it with slightly trembling hands . |
| 12 | I mean , I used to hate it with like having flipping anyone come up to our house when I was little ! |
| 13 | The transmitter is broken down enzymically , to prevent it from continuously initiating action potentials . |
| 14 | Its opposition to the Communist Party , in particular , prevented it from even attempting to mount a mass political campaign in favour of the Republican government . |
| 15 | In part the practical difficulty of withholding tax most of which is deducted at source has prevented it from ever assuming large-scale proportions , while the fact that opposition has in the past tended to focus on specific wars , of which the Vietnam war was the most prominent recent example , ensured that it was usually a relatively transient phenomenon . |
| 16 | Yet its quasi-mystical elements prevent it from fully using its potential . |
| 17 | Something behind it prevented it from fully opening and a dark , viscous substance that in the subdued light looked like a patch of oil was spreading from an invisible source and had begun soaking into the carpet . |
| 18 | Her eyes widened as she came to the last paragraph , and she stared at it before abruptly crumpling the paper and stuffing it back into her case . |
| 19 | ‘ If you wanted to find out how an astronaut 's body was likely to stand up to the strain of living on a very , very heavy planet , is there some way of testing it before actually visiting the planet ? ’ |
| 20 | For if the princes were to take seriously the one task the church now allowed them , they could not achieve it without also enlarging their criminal jurisdiction . |
| 21 | It is impossible to select any important part of it without soon realising that its root is firmly grounded in atheism . |
| 22 | Maybe you do it without even trying . ’ |
| 23 | If necessary she could do it without even standing close to him . |
| 24 | And now we 've found a fine warren and got into it without even having to fight , you 've got to do your best to upset everyone ! |
| 25 | As you watch one tackling such a problem in a tank , you can detect the clicks of its discharges increasing as it identifies the outlines of the selected parking place behind it and slowly manoeuvres its great length into it without once touching the sides . |
| 26 | And some people think that this matters : that when it 's wrong to mislead people — which it usually , if not always , is — then it 's not quite as bad if you can manage to do it without actually saying anything you believe to be false . |
| 27 | Tentatively , he ran his thumbnail over the thick seal , exerting a careful pressure which made an indentation in it without actually cracking it open . |
| 28 | He sat on the edge of her desk , watching as she tidied it without really thinking about what she was doing . |
| 29 | Brutus again talks of Caesar 's authority becoming corrupt because of using it without really thinking about the consequences . |
| 30 | But you can avoid it by simply leaving the tops on . |