Example sentences of "it [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I , but I think you know the , the , the thing that I found erm most difficult as you say was , was actually completing the C C Q and I think part of it and asking the question but it is , certainly it would be easier to do it using that on your knee rather than doing it at the table because I was aware that I was turning away |
| 2 | They used to call it drawing or clipping and scalloping you see . |
| 3 | Well th maybe I should look at it seeing as I missed it . |
| 4 | Was it raining when you came Fred ? |
| 5 | Having grasped the use of silence you now have to quieten your own brain , stop it muttering away to itself about all the things you need to do and may forget , stop it reacting and getting on its high horse when all it needs to do is to absorb information and store it for future reference . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I find it puzzling that books are published which describe meetings that took place several years beforehand . |
| 8 | We have a fox that lives near us and I have spent many a night and a morning watching it frolicking and jumping about and it breaks my heart to think that many of its kind are suffering death at its worst . |
| 9 | Push the ends of the roll towards the centre , so the pastry crinkles ( this will prevent it tearing when the roll is curved ) . |
| 10 | The baby saw it happening but could do nothing to stop it , its pudgy fingers would not close tightly enough to grasp the string … . |
| 11 | No it was Mark , I can remember it happening when she |
| 12 | ‘ But such anxiety will not stop it happening if the Soviet Union should ever allow it to happen or be unable to stop it happening ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ There is a reasonable chance of it happening and there is a collective will to support it ’ , Cunningham believes . |
| 14 | It was only later , after they had become engaged , that he had seemed to change , so slowly at first that she was scarcely even aware of it happening until , one day at a party given by a fellow student , someone , she could n't even remember who , had planted a playful kiss on her cheek . |
| 15 | Well the fear of boring you because I 've said it before , I think that either a Trustee made up of an equal balance of members from the various interested groups which is very difficult to achieve in practice and additionally independent trustees certainly in our case , we believe would have stopped it happening because the movements in the direction it went was clear now that we have the information in front of us to the Trustees , it was quite clear what was gon na happen and nothing was done about it . |
| 16 | It was called , I I ca n't remember it opening but I can remember the the Cooperatives Association , not the , it was the . |
| 17 | The emotional content of a spiral is expressed through a combination of at least two properties : is it opening or closing , slowly or rapidly ? |
| 18 | He was not spared one concrete-balconied construction , one flat-topped esplanade of shops , one lowly bungalow surrounded by pebbles and called The Palms , one swinging wooden board with ‘ rustic ’ letters cut in it announcing that the frosted aluminium-framed windows and crazy pavings dotted with fountain bowls and outsize cupids , and pergolas leading nowhere , were part of a residence called Ourranch . |
| 19 | After years of hard work , I think we 've got it looking as we want it to . ’ |
| 20 | It seals up every nick , stimulates the skin to a tingling glow , leaves it looking and feeling very pleasant indeed , Corvette After-Shave may not turn you into a film star , but it certainly helps to make a man worth a second glance ! 3/9 a large bottle . |
| 21 | So Helena wishes that there will be no arguments or slanging , slagging matches is it slanging or slagging off ? |
| 22 | I said you 've got it writing and in the solicitor 's letter , she said in there that erm he must get in , if he do n't understand it or er do n't agree or whatever he must get the solicitor but er ai n't heard , ai n't nothing a about it ! |
| 23 | They gave it shouting and yelling they meant it |
| 24 | Or are you going to spend it pretending that every man who kisses you is Ryan ? ’ |
| 25 | Marlow argues that Quorn 's high fibre content makes it filling and that the 250g pack is enough to feed four people , depending on the recipe . |
| 26 | Looking up , he saw the explosive wedged into a crevice , and thought it fitting that the blancs ’ devices should fail them now . |
| 27 | She shrugged it off and left it lying where it fell , in a heap at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 28 | He 's kept it going while the building work went on . |
| 29 | I still want to get it going but I do n't want to put a double shift onto unless I have to . |
| 30 | So you wan na have it going cos like I say turkey night before . |