Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patting a horse , instead of stroking or scratching it , only has a few valid uses : as a muscular relaxant and distraction ; and as a part of ‘ breaking-in ’ so that the horse gets used to things thumping around on its back before it is actually ridden . |
| 2 | Also , it may prove possible to manipulate NO neurotransmission pharmacologically , either inhibiting or enhancing it , and this could have important therapeutic implications in the management of disordered anorectal function . |
| 3 | Motions from outside of the body often affect this ‘ vital motion ’ , either helping or hindering it , and our awareness of these changes constitutes pleasure and pain . |
| 4 | In a recent article in the California Management Review , Mr Reich points out that , as a bailiwick of the Ministry of Health and Welfare , the industry was out of bounds to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry ( MITI ) and so never had bureaucrats helping or prodding it to export . |
| 5 | In the later part of the decade , its theories and campaigns seemed to many to be the only active and innovative part of the western feminist movement , and affirming or rejecting it occupied an enormous proportion of feminist writing and talk . |
| 6 | Lāla Bahādur started to play with its stringy tail — twirling it round in the air , twisting and tugging it back from the socket — trying to provoke a reaction that would jar it to life . |
| 7 | Adam went back to his private world as the plane bucked across the sky , the unseen hands of the veering winds twisting and turning it as it flew towards Hanover . |
| 8 | Her fingers worked at a small lace handkerchief , twisting and untwisting it in an extremity of nervous tension . |
| 9 | Polish technicians were at work assembling and checking it out during mid-October . |
| 10 | I spent hours assembling and re-assembling it . |
| 11 | To make these issues more tractable , it is helpful to consider the historical value of the three types of information produced by businesses , its usefulness the business historian , and the cost of keeping and using it : |
| 12 | BUT it 's not like The U2 or The U2s , which is already happening and ruins it . ’ |
| 13 | There were stacks of old art magazines , a broken easel , the white-painted bough which Elise had brought down at Christmas before trimming and hanging it over the inglenook fireplace . |
| 14 | Towards the end of the last decade , a generation of innovative , treatment make-up bases in skin-flattering shades emerged , geared to covering the skin with an imperceptible film of colour while simultaneously hydrating and protecting it . |
| 15 | Visions of her mother 's angry face when she told her what she knew changed into dreams of Nigel , back in hospital with bandages on his head , and David Kent with a Porsche , laughing and saying it was his now . |
| 16 | As soon as I see that a patient 's breathing pattern is changing dramatically or that the eye movement behind the closed lids is altering , I instruct him to be aware of and to understand all that is happening but to see it as if on a film or television screen , so that he is completely detached and feels no physical or mental distress whatsoever . |
| 17 | Whether for chamfering , grooving , templating or using it for intricate decorative work , this machine will help you do it cleanly and quickly . |
| 18 | Throughout the war , there were constant efforts to limit the devastation it was causing or to bring it to a halt altogether . |
| 19 | Berkeley does not elaborate on this second point , but presumably is gesturing towards the difference between actually experiencing something , such as heat , and remembering or anticipating it . |
| 20 | The 1964 Act , then , gives protection to a bona fide private purchaser who buys a motor vehicle unaware that the seller is hiring or buying it under a hire purchase or conditional sale agreement . |
| 21 | ‘ When we 're writing or recording it 's always serious , and then if you went on the road for two months and you were serious you 'd spend your whole life being serious ! |
| 22 | Find a local historian or architect who can help you in dating or describing it . |
| 23 | The taxing officer hears the parties and decides any issues in dispute , either allowing the item in the bill to stand or disallowing or reducing it . |
| 24 | They ordered calvados and played canards , dipping the sugar cubes in the tawny liquid so that the surfaces just met , the liqueur drawn up through the sugar , flushing and softening it until at just the right moment , a split second before the sweetness might dissolve and fall into the drink and spoil it , you tipped your head back and took the lump on your tongue and either let it melt there , or gnashed the singingly sweet grit of the sugar grains . |
| 25 | This role will involve further service development of the factory deep cleaning service with the aim of promoting and selling it on a nationwide basis . |
| 26 | As with the new ‘ Being There ’ album , it 's quite daunting to think of the number of people who are listening and liking it . |
| 27 | This being so , the question has to be asked : Will the expected benefits of the internal market be sufficient to offset the costs of establishing and operating it ? |
| 28 | This approach may lack an academic master work expounding and defending it , but it more than makes up for this with populist political appeal . |
| 29 | Yet it is quite possible to change the feeling of space cosmetically , that is by the clever use of colour , pattern , texture and arrangement , all of which can make space seem much larger as well as unifying and simplifying it . |
| 30 | It cost me less than a tenner and for swingtipping and springtipping it was brilliant . |