Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] it [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To come upon someone with it curling all over his face is astonishing enough to overlook at first a certain glassiness to his left eye — until , that is , he absent-mindedly lets it fall to dangle from its string . |
| 2 | Well up in Scotland of course we do n't need to save our rain water we get plenty of it coming from the unclear , but er one thing I would say would be that erm if we have a warm spell and the sun is beating on a bitumen roof and then of course suddenly a shower and that er goes into the water bucket or water barrel then it does give you maybe you know a few problems . |
| 3 | All I 'm saying is that we do n't have to go groping about in corners looking for motive , there 's plenty of it lying about . |
| 4 | ‘ When I said it was a pity Connie died , you said something about it upsetting Muldoon and Cabrillo at first . |
| 5 | ‘ Something about it going through the filtration of memory , I reckon . ’ |
| 6 | Is the proliferation of training schemes and employment agencies merely a move a ) to reduce unemployment statistics b ) to make it seem that the government is doing something without it having to positively intervene economically in a massive problem ? |
| 7 | She pulled herself along it thinking she might reach the stairs . |
| 8 | You ca n't go on your own , what 's , what 's there in it going on your own ? |
| 9 | But with her husband constantly coming and going between this house and the other and looking so damned pleased with himself , pretending not to understand when John-William had tackled him about it looking odd , then what — without causing a mighty rumpus — could he do ? |
| 10 | Eventually I untangled them and muttered something to him about it having been a hair-raising experience … |
| 11 | Because I 've had enough of it all my life what with one thing and another , and what I mean is , I do n't want you getting yourself into trouble trying to mind my back when I 'm OK really , and you 'll just land yourself in it doing the unnecessary . ’ |
| 12 | Best not to say anything about it running in the family . |
| 13 | There is no sign at all of this or anything like it happening . |