Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now doubtless to some people this is an everyday situation and so they have no problems in tackling it as a mathematical exercise . |
| 2 | You 'd be tackling it as someone who was brought up to perpetuate it . |
| 3 | He insisted on tackling it with a knife and fork . |
| 4 | I admit my man was out of order tackling it in the way he did , for which he will be disciplined , I assure you . ’ |
| 5 | I think the game I think the game has done well in tackling that problem but I do n't think we as a society have done very well in tackling it in the country at large . |
| 6 | Accounting for the use of this form in any context will always imply relating the particular meaning actualized in the context to the permanent potential significate postulated for it in tongue , and will consequently involve : ( 1 ) showing that the common denominator of a before/after sequence is present ( the constant element evoked by to ) , and ( 2 ) showing how the speaker has fit the particular experience he is talking about into this potential by intercepting the operation of actualizing it at the appropriate moment ( the variable element expressed by to ) . |
| 7 | An objection which has been raised by Jürgen Moltmann ( see chapter 7 ) and by others who have been concerned to set our present time in the light of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament is that Barth and his allies in the 1920s who aimed to recover that emphasis in fact misinterpreted it by twisting it into the ‘ eternal moment ’ of the encounter between time and eternity , ; and that his mature theology distorted it in a-different but equally damaging fashion by swallowing up the whole of time and history in the central history of Jesus Christ , and by dissolving that away in turn in the eternal self-determination of God within the council of the Trinity to be ‘ God for man ’ . |
| 8 | It has seized and deformed it , in each region twisting it into a latent value-system which , put into an abstract , depersonalized form , has in one place produced the French revolutionary ideal , in another Anglo-Saxon liberalism , elsewhere communism , Muslim fundamentalism , social democracy , Buddhist socialism , and many other secondary forms . |
| 9 | The big hand was on my neck again , twisting it like the focus grip of some humanoid camera . |
| 10 | She drove the corkscrew in , twisting it like a knife in an enemy , stretching her shoulders back and pulling , with no result . |
| 11 | He drove the corkscrew forward , burying it in the man 's right eye , shoving down hard on it , twisting it in the socket , ignoring the spouting vitreous liquid that erupted from the riven orb . |
| 12 | The hermit crab partly avoids this complicated and hazardous process by having a shell-less hinder part and protecting it with a discarded mollusc shell , switching into a new one in a minute or so whenever it has the need . |
| 13 | Consider the king penguin : the male is the one that incubates the egg , carrying it around on its feet and protecting it for months from the Antarctic weather with a fold of its lower belly … |
| 14 | It seemed to be standing in the snow , a little metal cap protecting it against the biting breeze , but as we approached closer , my stomach turned . |
| 15 | He confessed that he had finally come to terms with the fact that he was a homosexual , after a lifetime of denying it to himself . |
| 16 | She shook her head at that , denying it with vigour . |
| 17 | Mr Budgen said : ‘ The Government 's actions have been disgraceful , describing Maastricht as an issue of confidence in private and denying it in public . |
| 18 | It is the more remarkable that Pound in his letter to Williams should diagnose himself as suffering from a milder form of Eliot 's disease ; most of the time , alike in his life and his poetry , he seems to be denying it by strenuously over-compensating . |
| 19 | He need not have feared ; as he threw , a throng of angels seized the stone and carried it , neatly depositing it atop the ‘ wring ’ . |
| 20 | The main shape of the landscape — mountains , rolling hills , and flat plains — is based on the geological rock formations , but has been severely modified by the movement of glaciers which carried vast quantities of rock , grinding it down in the process , depositing it in the form of boulders , gravel , sand , and silt , often many miles from its original outcrop . |
| 21 | If you wish to make Abbeylink deposits you must use the official envelopes provided by us and ensure that the envelope is properly sealed before depositing it in the Abbeylink machine . |
| 22 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 23 | The Three Choirs vineyard is making an English equivalant of Beaujolais Nouveau , and is launching it on the French market . |
| 24 | Shortly after the appearance of the SL , Thorn EMI Lighting introduced the 2D by launching it with a range of fittings designed by Conran Associates . |
| 25 | More the kind of face-lift marketing men give an old product when launching it with a new package , less a shift of political culture and strategy rooted in the configurations of modern social change . |
| 26 | What do you think of launching it with pictures of Deneuve ? ’ |
| 27 | Since launching it in the late 1980s , Microsoft has sold over 25m copies . |
| 28 | When Zen reached the gate the security guard was back in his place , but he was so intent on the spluttering exclamations of his walkie-talkie , cradling it to his face and murmuring to it like a mother trying to calm a baby , that Zen 's departure went as unremarked as his arrival . |
| 29 | She handed this creature to Roland , who took it as he might have done a kitten , cradling it in the crook of his elbow , and adding to it , in turn , the nightcapped one , in tiny white pleats and broderie anglaise , and the dark-headed one , severe in dark peacock . |
| 30 | He reached in and took out the Beretta , cradling it in his hand , working the slide . |