Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael , 45 , who quit boozing because it threatened to wreck his life , has given up another ‘ vice ’ — being too generous . |
| 2 | From Philips ' point of view , DVI looks threatening because it enables full frame full motion video to be accessed from a standard CD-ROM . |
| 3 | I 've tried ATM and softfont downloading but it does n't seem to work . |
| 4 | Stop it , stop fooling when it goes |
| 5 | Well sir , they 're , we support dipping because it 's already been stated to note that we make most of the money for Shropshire from farming , and sheep is one of the big things which we sell all over the country , but unless we can guarantee our sheep are clear of er , disease people are n't going to come here and buy meat and stuff are they ? |
| 6 | Just as birdsong awoke the unit , an owl is heard calling as it flies its nightly patrol over |
| 7 | The nozzle of the big cleaner appears , it keeps coming until it falls on to the furniture and other junk piled against the wall . |
| 8 | As the vote approached , it seemed likely that the favoured version would not actually stop spending if it went over a cap , but merely require a special vote to approve or disapprove it . |
| 9 | The boilerhouse bridge needed repairing before it pitched us all into the river . |
| 10 | I was courteous , but did n't encourage conversation too much because I wanted to start detecting before it got too late . |
| 11 | It ge it you just sort of keep going until it stops |
| 12 | They went begging and it needed an excellent save from goalkeeper Roberts to deny Saunders again in the 76th minute . |
| 13 | And it keep saying and it keeps saying there 's a what erm slabs of concrete to be defined . |
| 14 | I ca n't go running cos it hurts too much . |
| 15 | Keep drinking until it pales in colour . |
| 16 | ‘ We keep hearing that it costs the health service more than £400 million to treat smoking-related illnesses each year , but we provide £7.5 billion in duty . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We keep hearing that it costs the health service more than £400 million to treat smoking-related illnesses each year , but we provide £7.5 billion in duty . ’ |
| 18 | And I mean if they 'd not looked in a paper in nineteen eighty seven eighty eight , and realized that fifteen percent of the fund had suddenly gone missing cos it had you know dropped they they 'd have still got income from their investments , and if they did n't need to cash it , then it would have been no problem at all . |
| 19 | By the time Mr Carlisle arrived in the right Roman town days after the original date for the hearing he was left wondering if it had been worth the bother . |
| 20 | The office staff start whingeing if it gets above eighty . |
| 21 | The boy sat like King Canute who forbad the tide to rise and was forced to sit watching as it lapped higher and higher . |
| 22 | Russia has welcomed the Korean contribution of experts , equipment and funds to finance the survey , expected to cost US$400,000 , but has said it will have to continue dumping because it lacks the facilities or funds to process the waste on shore . |
| 23 | An amino acid is a chemical sub-unit of a protein , and ultimately everything that happens in a cell it produces some kind of protein , so you can see that erm the triplet or produces erm which is one of the , one of the er amino acids and so on and there are also punctuation marks U A A or U A G means stop , as does U G A , so when , when a R N A template running through a gets to a sequence which reads , where was it now , U A A it stops reading because it knows it 's got to the end of the gene . |