Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun prp] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , if they 'd like to come at the fire station with their money today , barring fire calls , when we 'll be out of course , or if they see the fire engine driving round Didcot and it has n't got its blue lights on and they want to flag us down , they 're more than welcome to . |
| 2 | I want to welcome obviously particularly er the order relating to Wales because it confers on Wales er one additional seat , giving us five altogether because of the rise in the Welsh population over the last ten years and that er although Wales was under represented under the previous erm er you know distribution of seats which gave us only four we will be slightly over represented when we have five because you simply ca n't have four and a half seats , it 's got to be one or the other but since the Welsh population is continuing to rise very rapidly then it is likely that that will be put right . |
| 3 | ‘ If it 's just productivity applications or Windows that you want , you should stay where you are ’ , said Stuart , who said that ICL would certainly be looking at NT when it emerges . |
| 4 | She was glad that she was going to Rome as it brought their relationship to an end , cleanly and conclusively . |
| 5 | IBM also announced that 35 marketing , finance and planning jobs are moving into Boca as it transfers the headquarters of its Latin American personal computer operation down to Florida from Mount Pleasant , New York by September . |
| 6 | For example , although France objects to the use of the postal channel , an exception exists in favour of documents emanating from Luxembourg but it has to be admitted that as this arrangement is the subject of a bilateral convention it is actually saved by provisions in the General Clauses of the 1965 Convention , and does not attract Article 11 . |
| 7 | ‘ Obviously I 'm hopeful of getting to Sweden and it 's been great to be involved with the England squad . ’ |
| 8 | Had been found lacking by Dionne and it hurt . |
| 9 | he never does that and that , and that 's what we were saying on Friday and it seems like , and I think you 've tried to put all those in but change yourself a bit . |
| 10 | The House UnAmerican Activities Committee had been sitting before McCarthy and it went on after him and in the long run this damaged more people . |
| 11 | It was long after she had gone to sleep and he had prodded her in the ribs to stop her snoring and was , himself , lying awake , staring into the darkness , thinking about Donald that it occurred to Henry that this was the longest conversation he had had with Elinor for about a year and that , after a bad start , she had , once or twice , come dangerously near to amiability . |
| 12 | I was at Wembley , filming for BT when it happened . |
| 13 | ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago . |