Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So I asked for help ; I did n't like doing it but it seemed necessary . |
| 32 | sometimes there is a sense of doing it because it needs practising ; |
| 33 | I saw it actually when I was just doing it and it went how loud it was . |
| 34 | no he was right that 's what I say you thinking about that thing , this is n't just doing it as it said , you ponder |
| 35 | Ever a man for taking the particular to exhibit the general , this allowed him a global crack at the Scots : he claimed that they were not interested in doing anything unless it had natural awkwardness in it : ‘ What can not be done without some uncommon trouble or particular expedient , will not often be done at all . |
| 36 | The Director could n't ask what it was , not without implicating himself if it went wrong . |
| 37 | I looked at him , not really wanting help , but appreciating it when it came . |
| 38 | A psychiatrist emphasized the importance of preparing for the emotion of loss and recognizing it when it comes . |
| 39 | taking it cos it did the same thing . |
| 40 | By rotating it until it cut out the polarised light , the Vikings could locate the dark polarised band . |
| 41 | Birds leave their roosts and take to the skies ; monkeys jump away through the branches to find breakfast , and antelope disperse once more over the open plains to graze , knowing that if danger comes they stand a good chance of seeing it before it gets lethally close . |
| 42 | And , such is trust , they went on seeing it after it had gone , for by now they were used to the constant and bewildering ebb and flow of Stevenson money . |
| 43 | It reintroduces God , who created life , and who has no problem repairing it when it goes wrong . |
| 44 | And erm , we got another hoe oh er , I do n't like using it cos it 's got wood and it keeps giving me splinters ! |
| 45 | If you look around for some field that has yet to be used in a crime story and then insist on using it when it has not filled you with enthusiasm , your book will be leaden . |
| 46 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
| 47 | So you 're filtering it before it goes in the machine and still we 're saying , why do n't we filter it as it comes out the machine , before it goes back in the tank . |
| 48 | I 've tried resetting it and it did n't work |
| 49 | It 's worth taking the assumption by the scruff of the neck and shaking it till it falls apart , otherwise there will be no fundamental lasting change in relationships , the school will remain inward looking with no real growth in active listening and responding . |
| 50 | It moves me playing it and it upsets me playing it , it 's very upsetting to play Alfie , because A he 's such a disastrous man as a person d you know you think oh god I do n't really wan na be playing this man for sixteen weeks but the part is so wonderful and the play is so rich that you ca n't help s sort of s submitting to it and putting yourself in the position of being a masochist I suppose . |
| 51 | I 've got the phone number er it 's just a case now of er getting on and getting it advertised and marketing it but it 's all been signed |
| 52 | But one simply must not think about this ; at any rate , I am enjoying myself while it lasts . |
| 53 | She explains that Thru is ‘ a text that is really constructing itself and then destroying itself as it goes along … whenever I slide into a realistic scene … something happens later to destroy it , to show that these are just words on a page ’ ( 4 ) . |
| 54 | In both cases the ego seeks to defend itself against a passive relation to the superego and , in its manic symptoms , succeeds in convincing itself that it has been successful . |
| 55 | Just a quick post-script to my last message about tickets for the Sheff Wed game — I just managed to get through to the ticket office , and they said that all postal applications were sent back yesterday with a letter telling you that it 's been postponed , and to re-apply if you still want tickets . |
| 56 | ‘ But it shows she was trying everything and it did put an end to the sightings at that time . ’ |
| 57 | I became really depressed because no matter how much I loved my children or tried to take care of them , I could neither keep the doctor at bay or the fungus that was destroying everything that it came into contact with . |
| 58 | The plaque was unadorned , the letters deeply carved in an elegant script reminiscent of Eric Gill , and Dalgliesh remembered his aunt telling him that it had been placed there by previous owners in the late twenties , when the cottage was originally extended . |
| 59 | It was raining when Patrick Montgomery Lundy , followed by Jane Bradley , stepped onto Irish soil , and he suddenly remembered his mother telling him that it had been raining on the day she had first come to Ireland , in the May of 1898 . |
| 60 | Now all the others are telling it that it 's got to be the one to welcome the Ship . ’ |