Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such monitoring should not only be backward , it must be forward looking and where it can be seen that a task has taken longer than anticipated , the effect of such delay should be immediately considered in relation to the overall programme . |
| 2 | When stardom struck , he was already in his thirties , the hair showed signs of receding and because it was brown Beatty taught him a trick with make-up shadow that reduced the emphasis of an enlarged forehead . |
| 3 | So the service was not unfamiliar ; the readings from the Bible in the magnificent prose of Martin Luther , the prayers , the general confession , the great hymns , sung with unaffected fervour and in which Erika joined ( although she was critical of the flautist ) both because she liked singing and because it would have hurt Omi had she remained silent . |
| 4 | And also it 'll the bound to be building and that it 'll , you watch them . |
| 5 | Of course the horse named Bess , which I was given had a mind of its own , since it would always be eating and when it was not it only plodded along . |
| 6 | and really got the momentum going and that it was the middle peasants that he needed to get the support so that they can move forward and have a revolution . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been in this game a lifetime and wonder in what direction it is going and where it will all end up . |
| 8 | The discussion of culture in Raymond Williams ' ( 1983 ) Towards 2000 has been very important in my consideration of where Tyneside is going and where it may be made to go . |
| 9 | You may have a rough idea of where you are going and if it fits in with the cosmic blueprint , doors open easily . |
| 10 | What they hoped for was a future that Swindon would begin , then get league racing and that it would go on forever . |
| 11 | Germany is at last waking up to the what has been clear to outsiders for the past year or so , that there is going to be no quick fix to the recession it is facing and that it will be long and grinding : this week the BDI industrial federation admitted that the downturn could develop into Germany 's worst recession since the end of World War II , saying that the western German economy will continue to decline , and the fall will be deeper than previously thought , so that in important sectors such as the capital goods industry the downturn will represent a new post-war record ; the body blames weak foreign demand for German goods , the now over-valued mark and rising costs for German industry and now admits it is the result of structural problems that will have long-term economic effects . |
| 12 | Operators who have their tachograph charts analysed by an outside agency need to be careful about exactly what it is they are buying and whether it meets their requirements in protecting them from breaches of the law by their employees and agents . |
| 13 | On Thursday , facing uproar on all sides of the Commons , Mr Major ordered that the mess be sorted out and Downing Street duly declared that there would be extra money for the poor over and above RPI uprating and that it had all been planned before the Budget . |
| 14 | Now at Thorsbury she and Victoria often rode to the fields to watch the men labouring and when it was clear that the work of leading and stacking the corn would soon be at an end , she kept the child entranced with stories of the Harvest Suppers of her youth . |
| 15 | The Webbs objected that the scheme did not distinguish sufficiently between deserving and undeserving and that it included no measures for the prevention of unemployment . |
| 16 | You should enquire what type of scheme it is that you would be joining and if it is a money purchase one , how in particular members ' entitlements are calculated . |
| 17 | I think he once did say to me that he was very disturbed at how much ‘ coke ’ David was doing and that it had got to the point where he did n't hide it from deFries , whereas he did for quite a while at first . |
| 18 | Coda has published its report and accounts each year since 1987 because , Turner says , its products are generally sold to the financial directors of large corporations and they always want the security of knowing how a firm is doing and if it will still be around in a few years . |
| 19 | We continued fishing and although it went quiet for me Rick did have another two cats at 17lb 12oz and 12lb 8oz , but both seemed a little insignificant in the light of previous events . |
| 20 | The wrist moves to get the plate spinning and when it is going fast enough you stop the stick and , because of the hollow in the plate , the stick goes to the middle After practice you can try tossing it in the air and catching it or passing it behind your back . |
| 21 | U unfortunately it 's not a perfect system because in relation to mineral applications , whilst as you would expect the largest fees are associated with the largest areas of er application for new mineral working and whilst it has to be admitted that those sorts of applications do take a lot of time in order to process them . |