Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glossopteris is characterized by its long strap-shaped leaves , which have a conspicuous midrib , with many fine , smaller veins branching off it to form a network . |
| 2 | Thus , if you want to study the use of the word ‘ true ’ in Arthur Hugh Clough , rather than generate a massive concordance containing all the words in Clough 's poems , and then leafing through it to find the word ‘ true ’ , you use the concordance package commands to generate a concordance which contains all and only the uses of ‘ true ’ . |
| 3 | erm I was driving past it learning to drive , concentrating like mad and the driving instructor er , said to me , and it was only the second what , second , third , fourth lesson , it was early on in the |
| 4 | Preferring to carry only a light rifle , such as a .22 , and ammunition , but unburdened by other supplies , even water , they chase goats from about 7 am until noon , when they have to quit for the day Sometimes they will put down their guns and stalk a goat , leaping on it to deliver the final coup de grace with a knife . |
| 5 | The labour-intensive car-cleaning method involves either my supervising them carefully or running the risk of the paintwork being scratched by sponges full of grit because they have been dropped in the gutter , and the car bonnet dented by the smallest child climbing on it to reach the windscreen . |
| 6 | As to evidence of the terms of a bye-law , and of the fact that all the formalities relating to it have been complied with , see note B(2) below . |
| 7 | A Vietnamese couple who had to leave their country and fled to the North Yorkshire market town of Kirkbymoorside 14 years ago , are returning to it to open a Chinese takeaway . |
| 8 | Although the immediate context for the ‘ attack ’ on local government was pressure for overall reductions in public spending and local government spending in particular , few of those writing about it have accepted this as a major explanation , partly because the evidence that levels of local government spending are of major significance to the economy are limited , and the arguments that state spending in itself discourages private investment are also weak . |
| 9 | It is a common experience in reading that you read something , then try to write about it ; writing about it gives you new ideas , and so when you read the original again you find new things in it because of the new ideas you have brought to it . |
| 10 | every year I 'm looking for it to move forward a little bit . |
| 11 | So are they looking for it to lead to a , sort of getting back to last week 's terminology , a restoration or , or are are they actually , do they know that they 're getting involved in a revolution ? |
| 12 | I 'm not looking for it to make , make a profit , |
| 13 | We are looking for it to have a reasonable rally this summer and we are positive about the dollar so we expect to make money out of currency as well . ’ |
| 14 | The following year , encircled by 20km of high security fencing with 5,000 volts passing through it to deter animal and human predators , Anna Merz' rhino refuge was ready to receive its first incumbent , a large bull translocated from an area near the Nairobi National Park . |
| 15 | But the pretence of searching for it gave her a moment to think . |
| 16 | Of course , it 's her house , and everybody 's living in it rent free ; but even so , surely it is , well , you know … time ? |
| 17 | The fact that he was now sheltering within it does not seem to have occurred to him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Living at Betty 's house , I had been listening to it speak for long enough . |
| 20 | Yesterday 's me would have gone outside the phone box and stood listening to it ring . |
| 21 | No no but suppose some other mother may be listening to it have go through the same thing . |
| 22 | ‘ What I want our music to achieve for someone listening to it has become more ambiguous . |
| 23 | According to it did not seem to make much difference to tax on income differentials , rich peasants were still about two and a half times better off than poor peasants . |
| 24 | Cheryl ran after it , shouting to it to stop . |
| 25 | ‘ It has committed itself to this new dental hospital and we are looking to it to deliver . ’ |
| 26 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 27 | If you 've ever bought a leather product with gold writing on it saying ‘ real leather ’ or ‘ a present from Bognor ’ , and the writing has come off on your fingers it 's been done by ‘ cold foil ’ printing . |
| 28 | Just looking at it made her feel creepy , and she rubbed her hands along her arms instinctively . |
| 29 | Others say that the resemblance one notices is between sensations , and that what one means when one says something is white is that a sensation one has on looking at it resembles a sensation one has had before and to which one gave the name ‘ sensation of white ’ . |
| 30 | It was still there , though , and looking at it gave him a shock . |