Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] it [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their main virtue in this respect is their currency , since they provide a pointer to likely public demand ( much of it stemming from the reviews themselves ) . |
| 2 | And it normally has stickers all over it saying |
| 3 | There was a field just behind it containing red and white poles and some painted oil drums . |
| 4 | Hummingbirds use spiders ' silk , gathering it in their beak and flying away with it trailing behind them . |
| 5 | I 'd just like to get off my ladder and stop pretending to be somebody else , just be ordinary and not get away with doing this or that — and get away with it laughing . |
| 6 | You can leave that stuff on practically forever without it doing any harm . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ No ! ’ she squeaked , thinking that , far from it taking all his charm , her willingness could be achieved with only a minimum of persuasion . |
| 8 | Let me hasten to say that in many schools , particularly in the West Riding , fine education took place , but far from it helping to increase drama in schools , it had the reverse effect for two reasons : ( 1 ) it appeared once more to be something that could only be handled by a specialist — this time a P.E . |
| 9 | apparently turned up this morning and they want a hundred pound by tomorrow , and they 're coming back tomorrow for it paying him ten pound a week and thought it was gone and he had er none so find a hundred pound by tomorrow and she did n't know where she was going to get it from , she just stood there and burst into tears and run off going on |
| 10 | There was a banner slung slackly over it advertising a fete . |
| 11 | Almost of it rising to meet me . |
| 12 | So it is very important to know how to manage it , that is , how to keep it under your control instead of it getting on top of you . |
| 13 | ‘ Australian racing has benefited from such a system and it would keep money in the game instead of it going to the big bookmaking firms who channel the cash into their other businesses . |
| 14 | So he said , well they have a grill at the top he says , so if you 're cooking a chicken instead of it coming out pale th the grill will come on and it will brown it |
| 15 | And in instead of it coming off it 's adding on and adding on and by night time she can hardly breathe so she 's cough cough cough cough cough cough cough all night . |
| 16 | Instead of us , you know , instead of it blocking out for our benefit , I reckon it blocked out for their benefit somehow a hell of a lot of insulation , in here |
| 17 | But , even after this year 's advances , it would still require the biggest swing to Labour since 1945 to achieve it : the odds remain stacked heavily against it happening . |
| 18 | I says , I shove cards in , I says , apart from it telling how much you 've put in , I says , there 's nowt to read on it ! |