Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Sasaki had not looked outside the hospital all day ; the scene inside was so terrible and so compelling that it had not occurred to him to ask any questions about what had happened beyond the windows and doors . |
| 2 | However , whilst both the HPV16 sequence and the HSV octamer could readily compete for binding of this protein , the HPV6 sequence could not do so confirming that it does not bind the cervical protein with high affinity ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 3 | Ben gave the right answer literally speaking because it said it on the sheet of paper . |
| 4 | Through binoculars I could tell that it was part of an animal , and I could see it gently moving as it breathed . |
| 5 | Helen asked no questions about Chris , only saying that it had been a lovely evening and Moira was still talking about the tinned peaches and jelly . |
| 6 | It was so scarring that it dominated perceptions in Moscow for years to come . |
| 7 | Marie scrambled out of the sand-hills and ran along the bank , crashing her way through the tall , razor-edged grass , not minding if it cut her hands . |
| 8 | And went down into the kitchen , whose door she boldly opened , not caring that it had been shut to bar her out . |
| 9 | I 'm not saying that it achieved er a great victory |
| 10 | " I 'm not saying that it started off to be one , but in my view it became fraudulent pretty Soon . |
| 11 | I 'm not asking that it transfer its estate , I 'm asking that it should make a contribution because it will then show that we 're committed to this very important initiative . |
| 12 | By the sixteenth century , no longer assuming that it had a right to positions of leadership in the armies , the aristocracy began to attend military academies where it learned the art of making war . |
| 13 | I think he 's finally admitting that it 's all had an effect on him . |
| 14 | I 'm sure that when you adopted your working together slogan you were not thinking that it included employers . |
| 15 | The family doctor advised them to try a well-known rehabilitation unit , not realizing that it specialized in orthopaedic rather than neurological cases . |
| 16 | The opening pages are ravishing : exquisite cor anglais and oboe plaints , the tenderest of string bass solos , and an organ so discreetly reassuring that it sounds locked deep in the subconscious . |
| 17 | She had to find her own way to the bathroom and was pleased with herself for so quickly remembering that it lay at the end of the passage . |
| 18 | She says as I say I 'll have to wait and see what she says , because she said , you know when weather gets better , oh I says you 're better off waiting while it gets better weather |
| 19 | It had been an uncomfortable and disturbing sensation and he was still wondering whether it had n't been only the incense , the spring evening , and nostalgia for his boyhood . |
| 20 | But there was something dangerously lacking when it came to the matter of how they applied their logic to the solution of a particular problem . |
| 21 | The first glimpse of Montserrat is always deeply moving as it begins to rise like a vast ragged curtain on the evening horizon , mysterious and slightly sinister in its grandeur as it looms ever nearer in Goya-like menace , shifting from side to side of the bus until it vanishes behind us . |
| 22 | By February 1969 , Hello , Dolly ! was ready for screening , but the Broadway production was still running and it looked as if it might be more than two years before the film could be shown . |
| 23 | The tape 's still stopping and it keeps loading . |
| 24 | when I lost my weight with slimming we were try I was losing two pounds a week and I were n't starving , I was still drinking and it come off and I lost , I lost about I think it was about eighteen pounds , it was over a stone . |
| 25 | The next thing I saw was my kite diving away from me , the roar of its engine gradually fading as it plunged earthwards . |
| 26 | I thought it was just like Commentating that it had n't |
| 27 | The humans doubled up coughing as it invaded their lungs . |
| 28 | The government has managed , by and large , to restore public order which was notably lacking when it took over in April 1992 . |
| 29 | Respondents welcomed the document , clearly indicating that it gave Religious Education parity of status with other areas of the curriculum . |
| 30 | and explain the situation and the court said oh well we 'll take it to the magistrate 's then , then he had a letter two weeks later saying that it 's been thrown out again , they have n't got a case cos she were in the wrong , she 's never , ever have gone |