Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he adopted the simple expedient of not opening it until it was beyond his power to act on it . |
| 2 | Instead the Kette , led by the intrepid Müncheberg , dived after the Sunderland strafing it as it taxied to its moorings , and sinking it . |
| 3 | I charged at them , yelping encouragement to the wheelbarrow , and patting it when it had done well . |
| 4 | If a firm is to be successful , it will have to generate sufficient income to cover the cost not only of financing a capital asset but of replacing it when it is worn out . |
| 5 | Early in my journalistic career I learned that one should never use a preposition to end a sentence with — remembering it because it committed the error it condemned ; whatever the consequence , I was now fully convinced that Moose Jaw was not a bad place to be from . |
| 6 | The practitioner utilizing this block steps up to meet the kick as it is coming in , thus meeting it before it has gained full momentum and power . |
| 7 | It seems to be one of the valves sticking in its guide and the piston just tapping it as it reaches the top of its stroke . |
| 8 | Thus where the discretionary fund management arm of a conglomerate receives confidential information from the corporate finance arm about Company X , the fund management arm may be prevented from using the information of disclosing it if it has actual knowledge of the breach of confidence or possibly where it ought to have known of the breach . |
| 9 | Raise the tank temperature to 70°F. before adding it as it works better at higher temperatures . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Plenty of praise should be given when the dog responds , although there is no point in scolding it if it fails to do anything more than run or sniff around the garden . |
| 12 | The growth of Sunk Island is intimately linked with the Gylby family who , for almost 200 years leased it from the Crown , embanking it as it increased in size . |
| 13 | This price gulf mirrors the problem with organic food : most shoppers are put off buying it because it 's too expensive . |
| 14 | So the technological backwardness means that , and the over population , means that the soil is , is losing its richness and there 's absolutely no way of restoring it artificially by ploughing deeply and turning up er new soil or by re-enriching it as it were by the use of artificial or natural fertilizers . |
| 15 | If so , they can be used to boost the lighting by aiming it where it is most needed . |
| 16 | carry on saying it whether it 's right or wrong . |
| 17 | It has been said before but we must go on saying it until it happens : call a referundum and give us a vote . |
| 18 | I think they 're only saying it because it 's true . |
| 19 | We suggested in the last chapter that in some situations you might think about producing a lecture on video instead of recording it as it happens . |
| 20 | It had hardened slightly and she moistened it with icy water , kneading it until it shed a film of white liquid . |
| 21 | This represented a move away from the department head receiving capitation and simply spending it because it was there . |
| 22 | I thought , we 're only doing it once it 's been commissioned . |
| 23 | ‘ We 're doing it because it 's one of the great modern musicals … . |
| 24 | sometimes there is a sense of doing it because it needs practising ; |
| 25 | Yeah but he 's your doing it because it 's annoying you though . |
| 26 | no he was right that 's what I say you thinking about that thing , this is n't just doing it as it said , you ponder |
| 27 | I looked at him , not really wanting help , but appreciating it when it came . |
| 28 | My Lord the only point of interest and it 's really one that I took in the of the submission is that if you use an up to date nineteen ninety three figure for calculating it when it was first back to years three and a half , two and a half and one and a half years ago , then intre it would n't be fair if interest is awarded on that as well because in a sense the increase in the figure that inflation and the increased cost of living has produced because you use an up to date figure , probably equates with the interest and we can the figure an up to date one to avoid just that otherwise it would be getting the figures for each of those years and then working out interest . |
| 29 | A psychiatrist emphasized the importance of preparing for the emotion of loss and recognizing it when it comes . |
| 30 | I always welcome hearing it when it is delivered so lucidly from the mouth of the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) . |