Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [pron] " 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 | No , I 'm keeping it myself . |
| 5 | Well , of course , there was , they got no methods of keeping it you see . |
| 6 | But , in principle , there are ways of understanding the social world which dispense with individuals , at least as prime movers , and ways of explaining it which rely on them . |
| 7 | that blokes that 's erm dro been rigging it who he does the things for . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'm going to be running it on the East Lancs line from Bury — and I fancy driving it myself . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It 's difficult enough to persuade a PC to do what you want normally , and the added complications of network access only compound the problem , particularly if you 're assembling it yourself . |
| 14 | They vindicate life and make it desirable by living it themselves more gloriously . |
| 15 | As it was , de Lattre constantly held out the prospect of Chinese intervention , apparently believing it himself and certainly capitalizing on it in the US . |
| 16 | What for me was most crucial in this process was a clear analysis of the health and national economic and political situation ; a strategy for addressing it which identifies both the major challenges and the spaces in which you can currently work for change ; commitment to mobilize as many as possible behind this strategy ; and whilst focusing on the local situation , not to neglect the national and international situation . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah she 's Katie she bought what were her chances of re-ordering it you know |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | feeling as it were ready to come up the way you were swallowing it you could feel it . |
| 21 | One can indeed imagine a tree without anyone perceiving or having ideas of it , but in imagining it one is oneself having ideas of it . |
| 22 | It has even been darkly insinuated by Paolucci ( in Beccaria , 1963 ) that he may merely have been used as a front by his radical friends , the Verri brothers , who were too much in trouble with the authorities at the time to risk writing it themselves |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When you 're writing it it you know |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | I 've got a very hazy , but I could be confusing it her with one of the other relatives |
| 28 | You were confusing it I think with shrill which is the word meaning high . |
| 29 | [ 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 . |
| 30 | And on searching it what did you think ? |