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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Even when it speaks of stripping it still adds . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Each film contains 16 shots , and developing it automatically reloads the camera . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ So you can start practising pretending it never happened , ’ he derided , fleetingly aggressive . |
| 14 | Tapping it again turns it off , rather like a light switch . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The mothers ' courage in going it alone does n't seem to draw on any new feelings so much as old ones . |
| 18 | ( 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 . |
| 19 | Deciding it best to let the matter go no further , I continued on my way . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It will be usual practice for information which the Social Work Department receives after 1st April 1989 to be shared in a responsible and sensitive way , with the client to whom it relates , UNLESS the person providing it specifically requests that we do not do so . |
| 23 | Could , could that just be underlined perhaps in , by rephrasing it slightly to emphasise that , because I , I think that |
| 24 | Forty per cent of those experiencing it occasionally found it disturbing . |
| 25 | Generally speaking it only pays to change a system when it has reached the end of its economic life — usually 20 years . |
| 26 | Ed 's comment : While I agree with your comments in principle , Mr Huyton , it has to be said that Audrey Reid 's article in PFK also recommended shop or scrap glass but suggested getting it professionally cut to size . |
| 27 | Getting it home had been a struggle , but she was a determined soul , |
| 28 | Two old Rolling Thunderites are getting it together to house mini ramps of varying sizes inside a place off Old Street . |
| 29 | In fact the dream that we all had about Great Britain acknowledging it 's theatre and funding it properly has suffered a lot of setbacks since the ‘ sixties ’ . |
| 30 | erm For undergraduate teaching it also has a very high reputation for innovation and for creative teaching . |