Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean Mao will have no merit in actually distorting it deliberately to try and motivate his leaders because |
| 2 | In a field landing it often happens that on the final approach or even during the hold off you realise that the first part of the field is not as smooth as it is further along . |
| 3 | The submerged plants produce oxygen which dissolves in the water , keeping it well aerated . |
| 4 | But they 've been keeping it though have n't they ? |
| 5 | where they 're talking about spending money on a one of these old old cage drillers , tooling it up to drill cages at . |
| 6 | The judges must have forgotten their watches.Truth is , the battle is so absorbing it always extends until an obvious champion is emerges ; the last lonely Rokkaku deserves its 6 points as it descends unscathed . |
| 7 | Even when it speaks of stripping it still adds . |
| 8 | ‘ Once our new developments come on stream , the group will experience strong cash flow , enabling it both to reduce borrowings and to resume dividend payments , ’ he promised . |
| 9 | Our task is to bring back the mass-production element into the house-building industry , which can be done only by enabling it largely to work on its own authority for a prospective demand — by ‘ letting the dog see the rabbit ’ . |
| 10 | Since a living room is literally the room for general living it often has to serve as a study , playroom and dining room as well and still manage to reflect your tastes and be a comfortable extension of your personality — or personalities . |
| 11 | Richard Dyer has described how Coward 's songwriting , along with that of other gay lyricists like Cole Porter and Lorenz Hart , can be productively reread in terms of their specifically homosexual perception of the double-edged nature of romantic love — simultaneously wanting it desperately to happen but convinced of the impossible ridiculousness of any such desire . |
| 12 | Each film contains 16 shots , and developing it automatically reloads the camera . |
| 13 | You been saving it up have you darling ? |
| 14 | Nowadays , bacon is cured by injecting fresh pork with brine , or soaking it in bring which contains permitted nitrite and nitrate preservatives . |
| 15 | They treated little embarrassments such as their role in the gradual destruction of the ozone layer in the same way that the Vatican dealt with internal corruption : by brushing it under the carpet and pretending it never existed . |
| 16 | ‘ So you can start practising pretending it never happened , ’ he derided , fleetingly aggressive . |
| 17 | Tapping it again turns it off , rather like a light switch . |
| 18 | Oh no , I was wrestling it off to wash it in the end . |
| 19 | The very act of writing it out clarifies what you need to do and provides you with an agenda to work towards . |
| 20 | ‘ If a person with knowledge of the facts pays money , which he is not in law bound to pay , and in circumstances implying that he is paying it voluntarily to close the transaction , he can not recover it . |
| 21 | For the few people on low incomes who do have credit , paying it off tends to soak up more of their budget than for people with higher incomes . |
| 22 | I mean there were erm draper 's stores , there were furniture stores , there were all the butcher 's shops , grocer 's shops , greengrocer 's shops , chemist 's shops , ladies ' outfitters , hatters , tripe shops , er seed merchants , er bakers , millers , erm I ca n't say there were wallpaper sop shops and paint shops as such because there was n't such a thing as a wallpaper shop specializing it usually went to the hardware shop for wallpaper and paint . |
| 23 | The mothers ' courage in going it alone does n't seem to draw on any new feelings so much as old ones . |
| 24 | ( 2.6 ) unc ( 2.7 ) unc If an alternative is already present in an ALT , adding it again has no effect , since the set of alternatives available does not change . |
| 25 | Pulling it over to frighten it , he failed to jump clear and the pony fell on him , smashing his thigh . |
| 26 | Deciding it best to let the matter go no further , I continued on my way . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'ad ter spin the geezer a tale that I was usin' it ter move a poor family out o' the buildin 's where I live . ’ |
| 28 | It had been bored or dug or had occurred naturally at an incline of about thirty degrees , so that all the way down into the mine , holding onto the rope , they had had purchase for their feet , had almost been able to walk don , though describing it thus made a dull and orthodox act of what had been the great adventure of their boyhood . |
| 29 | The water industry is a particularly good case to take , for it is a major industry ( bigger even than British Gas ) , and the particular problems associated with selling it off have often arisen in less acute form in earlier privatisations — eg the problem of how to regulate pricing , stimulate competition , and ensure adequate levels of future investment . |
| 30 | Sweating it out trying to repair the plane with the dawn creeping up like thunder-boy , that 's no way to earn a living . ’ |