Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He put a little fish to swim inside , looking like it 's wriggling free . |
| 32 | The bridge plate should only need replacing if it is split or lifting away from beneath the table ; check for this by looking inside with a torch and a small mirror . |
| 33 | Yet there is a danger of reading too much into petitioning unless it is given a firm context . |
| 34 | My Warwick is currently being serviced by a luthier in Holbury who tells me that the truss rod needs replacing because it is beginning to shear . |
| 35 | Secular employment is as sanctified as preaching if it is done ‘ as unto the Lord ’ . |
| 36 | Any visual task is rendered more difficult and fatiguing if it is undertaken in poor lighting . |
| 37 | It was raining and it was threatening . |
| 38 | Now it is standing at a huge sum , growing rapidly , and it is still not going where it is needed ’ . |
| 39 | ‘ If , therefore , for any unhappy reason , counsel for the defence is unable to accept the assumption which stems from the fact that a particular statement has not been made available to him by the prosecution , it would become counsel 's duty to invite the judge to exercise the discretionary power which is given to him by the proviso to section 18 of the Evidence Law , ( c. 118 [ J. ] ) , by examining the statement himself and directing that it be used in such manner as the justice of the case demands . |
| 40 | The accused bought a theodolite , suspecting that it was stolen . |
| 41 | Of course , she had known it was there , but apart from testing that it was locked she had taken scant notice of it . |
| 42 | It was on display for the day and was being steamed so that the boiler inspectors could check it out and issue the necessary documents confirming that it was tested and available to work . |
| 43 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 44 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 45 | For myself , I remember going home after the AGM at which the idea to start the new church was first announced , wondering if it was to involve us in leadership . |
| 46 | However exciting his paper , his thesis seemed in danger of crumbling if it were reworked into a conventional historical discourse . |
| 47 | The city 's best season was the autumn , when the leaves were turning and it was filled with a soft golden light which carried it the name of Aurea Parma . |
| 48 | Now they are exchanging information right away , and not waiting till it is published two years later in a scientific journal . ’ |
| 49 | It need pay nothing , but , in reality , off-course betting has paid an annual levy to racing since it was legalised in 1960 . |
| 50 | Should you acquire an adult dog from a rescue centre , it may be worth enquiring whether it is marked in this manner to ensure that the record is updated when you take possession of the dog . |
| 51 | I 'm never going to forget what I saw — or stop wondering whether it 's happening again . ’ |
| 52 | Yeah I 'm wondering whether it 's playing to itself , with the television off . |
| 53 | You know I mean you 're wondering whether it 's going to blow the chimney pot off or all sorts of things . |
| 54 | In fact , we 're wondering whether it 's going to be possible to keep it up but the trouble is it 's in an area where in the last ooh , over over recent years forty chapels have closed ! |
| 55 | Perhaps the sentence ‘ Is it raining ? ’ expresses the state of wondering whether it is raining , and the sentence ‘ Shut the window , please ’ expresses the state of wishing the hearer to shut the window . |
| 56 | They were wondering whether it was going to happen again . |
| 57 | The answer was close now and the minutes remaining before it was revealed to her were harder to bear than the days and weeks that had gone before . |
| 58 | Senior party members were due to meet the American delegation — who arrived in Ireland today on a fact-finding visit — but were reconsidering after it was revealed that the group will meet Sinn Fein . |
| 59 | The body was still twitching when it was flung on to a table and the head hacked off , blood spurting like a fountain . |
| 60 | But the thrust of these essays is not so special , nor so self-serving ; those who nowadays gird at ‘ the canon ’ , as an array of allegedly classic masterpieces in literature , their classic status imposed as an instrument of cultural oppression , need to take account of how in these essays Pound challenged the canon , requiring that it be revised . |