Example sentences of "[verb] it [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found it unsurprising that her lodgers , with the exception of Mr Landor , assumed she was Italian , especially if their own command of the Italian language was weak . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The reader can examine the program and prevent it running if it looks suspicious . |
| 4 | Er people done it thinking that Och well , I 've got three month to get this sorted out , you know , and then unfortunately , by the time the three months was up , they had n't got it and |
| 5 | ‘ You can watch it coming or turn your back on it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There was a good deal of air ahead of him — he could feel it moving and there was a considerable space above his head . |
| 8 | Push the ends of the roll towards the centre , so the pastry crinkles ( this will prevent it tearing when the roll is curved ) . |
| 9 | Got ta present it saying that this is what 's happening . |
| 10 | ‘ I might do the tennis stuff for three or four years and decide I can do it sleepwalking and turn to something I really care about and like to pursue , which is politics . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've often seen it falling when I 've come home through a raid , from that Anti Aircraft gun . |
| 12 | To do what I do well , be proud of it , and watch it knowing that it was bloody good and entirely born of me . ’ |
| 13 | I watch it approaching but I can not fear it . |
| 14 | No it was Mark , I can remember it happening when she |
| 15 | It was called , I I ca n't remember it opening but I can remember the the Cooperatives Association , not the , it was the . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | After years of hard work , I think we 've got it looking as we want it to . ’ |
| 18 | But she 's more organised than these lads you see , whatever the duties are you know , she 's got hers up and running and whereas they 're still a bit you know have n't got it going as well as she has . |
| 19 | This Welcome break restaurant has suffered such a drop in trade that staff have agreed to work on short time , with a cut in wages , to try and keep it going until the bridge reopens . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Well we could set , like you say and no you know , and get it going and you make a salary |
| 23 | . And this is why I choose the cutters because it was mechanically and er I I was quite with it , I was able to sort of get it going if it stopped , one road or another . |
| 24 | We 'd just set it going and just |
| 25 | Its own momentum keeps it going until one side gets completely flattened . |
| 26 | With the toe of his shoe he kicked a loose pebble on the path , sending it spinning and ricocheting over a nearby flowerbed . |
| 27 | They connected up the drip , set it running and turned him on to his side . |
| 28 | So you wan na have it going cos like I say turkey night before . |
| 29 | Instead , he did his best to keep it going and keep it painted , but it was a big house and he was not very skilled in such matters . |
| 30 | Well I maybe in a couple of weeks we might but I mean we like to keep it going and then because when it 's when you come on the show you 'd be such a be such a terrific let down |