Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He strolled to the door , opening it for her , and she glanced at him crossly . |
| 2 | She turned to express some of her thanks to him , but he was already out of the car and round by the passenger door opening it for her . |
| 3 | But the shopman had already bowed as though keeping it for her was all any human being could ask . |
| 4 | I 'm keeping it for him , like . |
| 5 | I think so there 's not much point in keeping it in it 's box is there |
| 6 | ‘ She 's going to die , and she 's keeping it from me . |
| 7 | There was silence for a moment , then he said huskily , ‘ Leonora — look , there 's no easy way to say this , but I hope you 're not full of some quixotic notion about keeping it from me if you find out you 're pregnant . ’ |
| 8 | Whether it was the high volume of radio traffic , FAKINTIL sabotage , or his underlings keeping it from him , I 'll never know . |
| 9 | Her mother said : ‘ The trouble we had in keeping it from you , Jessica . |
| 10 | ‘ And disappointment in your parents , too , for keeping it from you . ’ |
| 11 | But she did n't want Uncle Albert explaining it to her when she got back if she could work it out for herself . |
| 12 | She could n't ask Aunt Sarah or Uncle Nick to help ; there was no way of explaining it to them without sounding crazy . |
| 13 | Right you 're just explaining it to me ? |
| 14 | It is n't the first time you 've implied that I know something about what 's going on , so how about explaining it to me ? ’ |
| 15 | If I 'm explaining it to you in terms of cos squared and idea what cos squared is I 'll have a guess then it 's not explaining . |
| 16 | ‘ I hope someone 's at home videoing it for him . ’ |
| 17 | Cross with herself and deflecting it to him , she hammered at his shoulders . |
| 18 | I would be grateful if you could confirm your acceptance of this proposal by signing the attached copy of this letter and returning it to me . |
| 19 | I am returning it to you in case it can be of use to someone else . |
| 20 | I mean I , what you 're saying 's quite valid I mean , i if you 've got a situation where you have been successful and you 've got an accumulation of stuff that 's been recovered from robberies , at least it gives you some method of returning it to it 's previous |
| 21 | Dr Morgan , by sheer force of personality , got most of the school to sing an oratorio and an opera every year , banging it into us by ear and I am sure most of us could n't sight read . |
| 22 | He was playing superbly — but the boss kept knocking it inside him and popping them in . |
| 23 | Or , rather somebody 's signing it for him . |
| 24 | However , in attempting to ascertain the applicability of the model to other countries , in order to strengthen confidence in the results , it is recognised that instead of simply applying it to them mechanically , some account needs to be taken of prevailing differences in their industrial relations systems . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps she was saving it for you . ’ |
| 26 | I am not lugging it up them flipping stairs again ! |
| 27 | ‘ Very likely not , but that does n't dispense me from taking nourishment at regular intervals , nor other people from cooking and serving and ordering it for me . ’ |
| 28 | ( Prove you did n't print that , and if it was said of someone else , that you were n't tacitly implying it of me ) |
| 29 | If theirs was the same college attended by Clare Mallender , that might be explained by Dysart recommending it to her at her father 's request . |
| 30 | We have come to that stage now and the council has reached the conclusion that Mr Sugden 's proposition is the best on offer and we have no hesitation in recommending it to you . ’ |