Example sentences of "[v-ing] [subord] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Umpteen four-bedroomed houses later , we were wondering if it really was the right thing to do : every time we found just the right place , the surveyor 's report showed movement of the north wall , or some other equally expensive-to-repair problem . |
| 2 | I asked , wondering if it really was or if his memory had become glamorized . |
| 3 | There the company had undertaken to lay some thousands of miles of pipe line across the permafrost , spreading before it specially constructed polystyrene boards to guard against the disastrous consequences of direct contact with the ice . |
| 4 | You do n't know what your talking about she said , what baby ? we have n't a baby , my mother wo n't be coming because it so far I tell you . |
| 5 | In addition it is clear that the route by which information becomes public knowledge may be crucial to determining whether it thereby loses the necessary quality of confidence . |
| 6 | Such planning , involving as it always does public action — provision of good educational opportunity , good public housing and health care , competent attention to drug addiction , family counselling , adequate welfare payments — is systemically resisted by the contented electoral majority . |
| 7 | The rising toll of unemployment was another alarming problem , involving as it naturally did the families and children of the unemployed man or woman as well . |
| 8 | When the owner shouts at the cat , instead of simply stopping as it usually does , the cat will massively over-react with one of its mad-panic rushes . |
| 9 | Marshall knew Wickham would be ruefully amused by that ‘ yet ’ , carrying as it inevitably did an accusation of tardiness . |
| 10 | This is not indicated in the quarto ; and we have no means of telling whether it ever existed . |
| 11 | When the New Year 's Honours List is published , Britons will learn once again that the snob system is functioning as it always has . |
| 12 | That was the movie in which Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye went to Vermont for the holiday to discover it was not snowing when it jolly well should have been . |