Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's exactly as he conceived it , except that instead of twisting it he has knocked the top slightly cock-eyed , like the cow with the crumpled horn . |
| 2 | If I go on denying it they 'll all wag their fingers and say ‘ Aha ’ and tell me I protest too much . |
| 3 | So er you know they 're making their bed er nice and feathery and yet they denying it us and then that 's where the erm the sore point comes in . |
| 4 | Well , of course , there was , they got no methods of keeping it you see . |
| 5 | As the weekly parcel issue decreased from one to a half you began to notice who took more than his share of the butter or the jam and though you felt mean for noticing it you went on being mean . |
| 6 | Clara often thought that Mrs Maugham 's attitudes towards the television typified her whole moral outlook ; before acquiring it , she had considered it infinitely vulgar and debased ; after acquiring it she considered all those without it as highbrows , intellectual snobs , or paupers , while still managing to retain her scorn for all those who had had it before the precisely tasteful , worthy and perceptive moment at which she had herself succumbed to its charms . |
| 7 | If your car is damaged while a young or inexperienced person ( including yourself ) is driving it you will also have to pay the first part of the cost as shown opposite . |
| 8 | If your car is damaged while a young or inexperienced person ( including yourself ) is driving it you will also have to pay the first part of the cost as shown opposite . |
| 9 | Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’ |
| 10 | Yeah she 's Katie she bought what were her chances of re-ordering it you know |
| 11 | They need a new identity , but in seeking it they find themselves competing for the same political space with social movements that share their radical vocation . |
| 12 | feeling as it were ready to come up the way you were swallowing it you could feel it . |
| 13 | The summary should give a brief statement of the contents of the report , but in writing it you should give particular attention to the conclusions and recommendations . |
| 14 | it 's to , to a certain extent you start writing the essay and then once you start writing it you suddenly realize what you want to say , I mean he started writing this erm and he , he 's not quite sure I th I think , you know , where , where it 's all leading to . |
| 15 | When you 're writing it it you know |
| 16 | Well no I did it last week and one of the references I could n't remember the name of the woman , so I just put Mrs blank and I just left it so I thought I 'd do it again cos there were a couple of bits I did wrong and a bit dodgy , so I though save me writing it I 'll just do it all over again but it looks like I 'm not gon na be able to now because we 've brought out here for a piddling stupid fire drill ! |
| 17 | I 've got a very hazy , but I could be confusing it her with one of the other relatives |
| 18 | You were confusing it I think with shrill which is the word meaning high . |
| 19 | [ There is an ] exceptional case , in which , though the predicate is the name of a class , yet in predicating it we affirm nothing but resemblance , the class being founded not on resemblance in any given particular , but on general unanalysable resemblance . |
| 20 | I went to change me poll tax and er I says to her , I says , I should be court to Monday oh she says you 've got a fifteen pound court thing , I says aye , she says oh well that 's fifteen pound , I says it 's not cos I 'm not paying it I says I 'm not paying the fifteen pound to the court , I says , I says how come last year I did n't pay right round to February last year I said and yet I , your last payment 's next month , you know , she said oh well they 're stricter this year she says , she , if you 'd pay the half year you 'd of been alright |
| 21 | But instead of releasing it he began to kiss each finger in turn until he came to the pale circle on the third finger of her left hand . |
| 22 | But it 's no way to settle an argument by ignoring it you know it or letting your er letting your |
| 23 | The result is that after a period of free movement the material begins to harden and if one goes on deforming it it will become brittle . |
| 24 | On leading it he wrote : |
| 25 | That 's right , and , and the first act of the play is a rehearsal and it keeps stopping and the director keeps sort of straightening them out and they 're dealing with little problems , and when you 're actually rehearsing it you find yourself sort of repeating the play because it 's so ac Michael Frayn who wrote it has so accurately observed what happens er when you 're directing a play that er you find yourself re-enacting the play and , and suddenly find a discussion you 've just been having has part sounds as if it 's come out of the script . |
| 26 | When she had finished cleaning it she started on an aluminium saucepan . |
| 27 | The trustees have sufficient discretion for future use of the estate … if they decide that its interests are best served by selling it they can do so . |
| 28 | And you 're just stealing it you 're just stealing it so that you can make money are n't you ? |
| 29 | In contemplating the garden 's verdure rather than experiencing it he succeeds in : |
| 30 | I mean I ca n't walk around holding it it 's a bit annoying . |