Example sentences of "[vb past] it [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the second half of the decade , however , this perception began to be challenged by commentary that pointed out controlled , intellectual qualities in her work and , thus , described it using terms traditionally applied to the art of men . |
| 2 | The move cut across the efforts of SEMS , and stopped it achieving the sales it had hoped for . |
| 3 | One UN convoy was still stranded at the Drina river frontier between Bosnia and Serbia after Bosnian Serb militia stopped it crossing on Sunday . |
| 4 | Only the General Election stopped it going through . |
| 5 | shift error : We tried it making — making it with gravy . |
| 6 | Indeed , he found it energizing . |
| 7 | We found it nestling in a golden-green stand of giant bamboos , beneath a soaring cliff . |
| 8 | She found it unsurprising that her lodgers , with the exception of Mr Landor , assumed she was Italian , especially if their own command of the Italian language was weak . |
| 9 | The Royal College of Physicians and similar organisations overseas have studied alternative allergy and found it wanting in scientific credibility and clinical usefulness . |
| 10 | Constance could not decide whether or not his diffidence sprang from fear or indifference , and she found it puzzling that someone as confident as Nicky in every other area of his life should be so timid when it came to love . |
| 11 | As it grew gradually nearer , and larger , they soon found it towering over them — a mighty steel fortress . |
| 12 | His journey , John assumed , was either because of genuine business , or because he found it trying to wait in the capital . |
| 13 | He found it trying having to listen to endless complaints about her weight , her tiredness and her inability to carry a child . |
| 14 | Gingerly , sweating , I curled my left hand behind my back and felt for the third arrow , and found it sticking out of my jersey though fairly loose in my hand . |
| 15 | It was , in fact , the work of his son , William , and Miller comments ‘ I was first favoured by this sort by Mr. Peter Collinson , FRS and afterwards received a plant with a drawing of it made in the country where it grows , by Mr. John Bartram , JR , and have since been furnished with more plants by Dr. Benzel of Germantown in Philadelphia , who found it growing plentifully in shady , moist places . ’ |
| 16 | The doll had pins piercing the location of the heart when the police found it lying on the victim 's naked body . |
| 17 | He eventually found it sitting on a wall outside a house . |
| 18 | Celia found it unnerving . |
| 19 | No doubt this ability to mask his thoughts and feelings was vital in the cut-throat world he inhabited , but she found it unnerving . |
| 20 | Glancing from beneath her lashes , Lindsey studied his profile , and found it unnerving , or perhaps it was simply that the confining space of the small car did n't allow much distance between driver and passenger . |
| 21 | She found it unnerving to be made aware that she could want a man so much physically when her mind was totally against it . |
| 22 | If she found it stretching credulity that a meeting between them was n't inevitable she 'd always fiercely denied to herself that she had any interest in seeing him again , so why should she be feeling so shivery and hot , almost as if she had a fever ? |
| 23 | The bank 's ethics code prevented it cashing in on the bonanza reaped by others from the pound 's departure from the European exchange rate mechanism last September . |
| 24 | He ate it standing up by the sink , and deliberately left the little pot on the marble work surface . |
| 25 | There were no chairs or tables in the kitchens , so we ate it standing up around the cookers and stoves . |
| 26 | While one interviewee described it as meeting monthly ( at least in the early stages of the project ) , the chairperson recalled it meeting in full committee on only a handful of occasions , with the bulk of the work being undertaken by individual members in liaison with the academic and pastoral divisions they represented . |
| 27 | She recollected it falling on the face and sightless seeing eyes of Michael , the first of the Scarabae household she had ever beheld . |
| 28 | This place must have stood here like this for all those years , and I imagined it retaining always this season , a pocket of perpetual spring — almost a source of spring from which the frozen bare earth in other places could be revivified , as those old maps depict in each corner a Wind holding in his bursting cheeks the force of the wind everywhere . |
| 29 | It 's rather like er I had a plant the other day , a marigold , and it had been there for about two weeks and it was a lovely plant , and er I noticed it beginning to droop and I thought , oh well it 's finished now , it 's in a pot . |
| 30 | Animals rarely surprise me but there was something about the buck , once I noticed it sitting there , that froze me for a second . |