Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I showed the slightest sign of taking sides about Bodyline , or suggesting that it was a threat to cricket , my reports would be censored and I would probably be replaced . |
| 2 | The phatic function : opening the channel or checking that it is working , either for social reasons ( ‘ Hello' , ‘ Lovely weather ’ , ‘ Do you come here often ? ’ ) , or for practical ones ( ‘ Can you hear me ? ’ , |
| 3 | It 's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped . |
| 4 | Most pumps have a filter to clean the incoming air , and this needs cleaning or replacing when it gets dirty . |
| 5 | For example , a clause that states that the firm may act as principal or agent may be interpreted as defining the firm 's duties , excluding liability for breach of duty in the event that it should act as principal , or disclosing that it sometimes acts as principal . |
| 6 | ‘ We did n't overdo or over emphasize Ken 's neuterism because we had him make love or going after it , but we knew that underneath it all was another character . ’ |
| 7 | If he publishes untrue defamatory matter recklessly , without considering or caring whether it be true or not , he is in this , as in other branches of the law , treated as if he knew it to be false . |
| 8 | It will be observed that in those cases there was no statutory period after cessation of trade during which jurisdiction continued , and the court was therefore faced with a stark choice between saying that the jurisdiction ceased immediately active trade was suspended , or saying that it continued until the business had actually been wound up by payment of the debts . |
| 9 | So measures of poor welfare include finding that , because of the way an animal is kept or treated , it is not able to live as long or finding that it is not able to grow or is not able to breed . |
| 10 | Ms Jackson is not advocating allowing your child to play in a busy road , or watching as it tips a bottle of bleach down its throat . |
| 11 | And what this means is that from now on the cla lectures will trail the classes , which , which does n't matter and is actually quite er a good thing in the sense that what will happen from now on is that we 'll first do a topic in the class and then I will give the lecture on it the week after , or possibly even two weeks after , which is okay because it means that then in the lecture I can concentrate on filling in the gaps , straightening out the misunderstandings and generally adding to what we did in the class , rather than leading as it were as I have up until now . |
| 12 | Funnily enough though there are there are feminist women who are who are saying similar things that saying that it is a bit irresponsible to have gotten into bed with someone and taken all your clothes off and then say no . |
| 13 | Traditional civil-law interpretation would say that it is : the words amount to a demonstratio rather than a causa ; the testator is suggesting a means of satisfying the liability under trust rather than indicating that it is to arise only if the estate of Gaius Seius is entered . |
| 14 | Although acknowledging that it was possible to analyse the curriculum in a variety of ways , the White Paper suggested that this was best done through subjects , particularly at secondary level . |
| 15 | There 's a great deal of theological thinking of a very different kind going on outside Europe in the Third World , in Latin America and Africa , in India — the place where we used to think we sent our understanding of God for the heathen to be converted to it , and we 're beginning to have to listen to those places and to receive what they have to give us , rather than thinking that it 's all settled in our patch of the world . |
| 16 | It insists upon lumping the whole of reality together as a single ‘ thing ’ or ‘ system ’ like a body , rather than recognising that it is more a collection of different things , a network of interrelated but separate systems , animate and inanimate , that can not be welded together into one ‘ thing ’ . |
| 17 | Pneumonia during the prepatent phase may cause signs of dyspnoea and depression , whereas the presence of adult worms and excess mucus in the trachea lead to signs of asphyxia or suffocation with the bird gasping for air ; often there is a great deal of head shaking and coughing as it tries to rid itself of the obstruction . |
| 18 | We are already falling into the trap of describing an ideal world and suggesting that it exists . |
| 19 | And depending whether it 's a rectangular plot or whether it is n't or not or if it 's slightly at an angle then some of the corner houses have a fairly long gardens . |
| 20 | That statement was swiftly followed by a countersuit against Phar-Mor 's management , claiming unspecified damages and maintaining that it was unable to audit the company accurately because its financial statements were altered . |
| 21 | The ceremony has died out in many areas over the past hundred years , so it was a good idea to revive it.There 's cider and singing and it 's good fun . |
| 22 | spends his day blending the malt and seeing that it is despatched correctly . |
| 23 | And so when you 're pushing pressing on that squashing it and making it flow into sheets the pulling on it and seeing whether it will stretch or whether it . |
| 24 | And seeing as it was my brainchild , would you not say it was possibly the best commercial of all time ? |
| 25 | Any visual task is rendered more difficult and fatiguing if it is undertaken in poor lighting . |
| 26 | With my father agreeing to give me £2,000 , and adding , ‘ This is the third plane ticket I 've bought for that man ’ , I flew back to England and finished painting the house white , thanking God that I liked the art nouveau and Edwardian furniture David had been buying , because otherwise it could have been tricky , having received the letter and realising that it might actually be love , it might actually be something serious going on . |
| 27 | On Dec. 18 the UN Security Council unanimously approved Resolution 799 condemning the Israeli action and demanding that it be rescinded , but the Israeli Cabinet , meeting on Dec. 20 , reaffirmed its decision . |
| 28 | The adventure will become increasingly complex , deadly and demanding as it progresses . |
| 29 | Even as she tried to evade him , he was drawing her closer , making the blood sing in her veins as he smiled down at her , the hypnotic blue eyes half shuttered but still as powerful , as he raised a firm hand to the back of her head , guiding her face towards his own , his mouth seeking the trembling softness of hers , hard and demanding as it reached its goal , yet instantly becoming as gentle and manipulative as it had been when he had coaxed the throbbing melody from the borrowed trumpet . |
| 30 | One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed . |