Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] it [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he was up and levering the round boulder free , not listening to it crash down the mountain , doubting if the attackers would hear or see — and , if they did , whether they would be persuaded that it was his own body tumbling — but it was one extra little chance that cost him only a few seconds . |
| 2 | It makes a change that the burden of more want is put on the central government instead of local authorities , because too often in the past , central government has said , in many issues , oh , we think you should have that , but the responsibility for paying for it comes from the local authority . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're just waiting for it to rise to the surface are we , Sergeant ? |
| 4 | Thirty-one out of thirty-six City banks joined in this key venture and it was also from their group that the practice of banks holding accounts at the Bank of England and re-discounting through it developed towards the end of the century . |
| 5 | Meantime the earth is spinning as it goes round the sun . |
| 6 | One million people are missing from it according to the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |