Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of this amended agreement , the British LTA might have been forgiven for thinking that it had pre-empted any legal action over its former agreement , which it had sent to Brussels for consideration as long ago as September 1990 . |
| 2 | Yet , like most faiths in the twentieth century , Christianity has come under the hypnotic spell of this modern attitude , and Christians are beguiled into behaving as it demands . |
| 3 | As it was , the ‘ smokeless shimmer of vapour ’ was so cooled by cleaning that it drifted across the river to cause mischief with the leadwork on Wren 's great dome . |
| 4 | Tears filled her eyes as the truth danced before her , but they ebbed without spilling as it danced away again . |
| 5 | Erm used for troubleshooting when it does n't start . |
| 6 | He had never before been accused of stealing and it did not sit well with him . |
| 7 | Amiss thought of mentioning that it had tasted like condensed milk with a tea bag waved at it , but felt that might be a slur on Alf 's taste-buds . |
| 8 | Smoking is a very ancient art that has been used for hundreds of years to preserve fish and meat , preferred to salting because it does not destroy the natural flavour of the food to the same extent . |
| 9 | This view avoids the necessity of explaining how an increase in complexity can occur by denying that it happens , but only at the expense of supposing not only that there is a minute homunculus in the egg but that within that homonculus there is an egg containing a still more minute homonculus , and so on , in Chinese box fashion , ad infinitum — or , if not ad infinitum , at least back to Eve , who carried within her a sufficient number of successively smaller homunculi to account for all the future generations of mankind . |
| 10 | For example , to place the concept ‘ hypertext ’ in a semantic net , one might begin by saying that it contains documents , runs on computers , and serves users . |
| 11 | Before he was murdered on 24 March 1980 , Romero made two fundamental statements : he declared that the church supported the legitimate right to insurrectional violence against a dictatorship in August 1979 and , only a day before he was shot dead while holding a mass in San Salvador , he called on members of the army and security forces to refrain from shooting if it ran contrary to their conscience . |
| 12 | Multi-strand , flexible , steel cable is particularly suited to winching because it does not kink so easily . |
| 13 | The franchise system was a good way for us to get into thatching as it dispensed with the need to endure a long apprenticeship , gave us a six-month intensive course teaching all the rudiments of thatching , and provided contracts and a source of cheap materials . |
| 14 | The first stage is the premoral stage and the child starts off obeying to avoid punishment , and then moves onto obeying because it understands why it should . |
| 15 | Once it becomes an end in itself then it becomes worth doing and it becomes a profession in itself just as being a dancer is a profession . |
| 16 | If wood is physically restrained from shrinking when it wants to do so it will split , because it has almost no tensile strength across the grain . |
| 17 | If it is physically restrained from swelling when it wants to swell , very considerable pressures are built up . |