Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er of course we took away all the iron beds , put wooden beds , we put little wardrobes in the rooms and these thi tackling it bit by bit each year you see . |
| 2 | Denying it had not stopped it from growing . |
| 3 | Two known meetings have so far taken place between both party leaders , with a whirlwind of protest from unionists when they issued a joint statement before the elections , while denying it reflected any form of electoral pact . |
| 4 | Balor did not grudge offering guests a mite of good wine , because it was only polite , but there was no denying it made inroads on your hoard . |
| 5 | By 1988 , the regime was forced to issue public statements denying it intended to destroy any more religious sites . |
| 6 | Agriculture was very important to the Romans in Britain , because without the food and clothing it provided , they could not survive . |
| 7 | As the semantic net grows , understanding it becomes a challenge . |
| 8 | And even when it became clearer — in a purely physical sense — as far as understanding it went she was as far from clarity as ever . |
| 9 | In her child 's understanding it seemed that it was her own liberation that was the cause of the celebration , and the arrival of the princess , the flags which appeared on all the buildings and the succession of functions for which her mother and Denzil put on their beautiful evening clothes and left her with the maid . |
| 10 | And that is the erm absence of understanding it seems to us from the County Planning Department of the way the actual market works , and of the need for a local authority area erm in seeking to obtain employment for its people , the need for that area to be able to offer a variety of er employment land both in quality , size and location . |
| 11 | She rose and hurried to the door and opening it saw not Craig but the small figure of Will Davies crouching in the street . |
| 12 | At the consecration of every bishop the prognosis for his ministry is taken by laying the Gospels upon his shoulders , and opening it to read the line decreed . |
| 13 | Zeroing it amounts to the application — within section 1(1) ( a ) — of a false trade description . |
| 14 | BHH Group , the property company , sprang to life after announcing it has received a bid approach . |
| 15 | They said that within minutes of the Metro landing it burst into flames and burnt like an inferno . |
| 16 | With continually varied climbing it proves interesting and improbable to the last . |
| 17 | Place the cutting in water , keeping it topped up . |
| 18 | Philip Holmes is keeping it topped up with water during the drought conditions . |
| 19 | A variation that we used to do , but which takes a little practice to get right , is to cut an elastic band , hold one end with your thumb or finger tip just below the implant , reach round the back with the other hand , stretch the elastic and , keeping it stretched , bring the end round and over the section under your thumb , grip it in the same way , pass round again and over the starting point . |
| 20 | just getting it keeping it moving . |
| 21 | Keeping it raised above his head , he staggered to the edge of the grassy bank and dropped the craft on to the surface of the clear water . |
| 22 | If there had been a moon that night , the clouds had been keeping it hidden . |
| 23 | Make D = 1 by pressing S1 and , keeping it pressed , apply a clock pulse . |
| 24 | Whether Darrel McHargue would have won on Commanche Run is irrelevant , for this was vintage Lester Piggott — the jockey completely at one with his horse , pushing it just enough to achieve maximum effort but always keeping it balanced , willing and galloping straight for the line . |
| 25 | ‘ The hardest thing is keeping it looking the same , ’ says Mr Poole , ‘ mainly because of modern health and safety regulations . ’ |
| 26 | The police say several thousand pounds was stolen … the elderly couple were keeping it to pay for their burial . |
| 27 | ‘ Teachers began to extend their role as educators to the entire community , instead of keeping it closed up in the classroom , ’ says Rafael Cuello of FECODE . |
| 28 | His tenacious belief in the venture by keeping it running cost him heavy personal financial loss and his ‘ nursing ’ of this satire on operetta that has rarely been equalledis largely forgotten ( but not by me ) . |
| 29 | I done that numerous times today but I 'm trying to do it right by keeping it going all the time when I 'm likely to be in conversation , so there are occasional blank spaces on the tapes . |
| 30 | Change incontinence pads frequently , and pay special attention to the person 's skin , keeping it washed and dried . |