Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UN Security Council on Aug. 15 unanimously adopted Resolution 707 condemning Iraq for its failure to disclose full details of its weapons programme and ordering it to provide complete access to UN inspection teams [ see pp. 38307-08 ; 38360-61 ] , including accepting their right to conduct aerial inspections anywhere in the country . |
| 2 | After the theatrics of the ridge , it 's a strange experience to emerge up on to an enormous flat plateau — a bit like climbing the ladder up to your loft and discovering it leads to an American Football stadium . |
| 3 | By writing this story virtually as a film script and having it turned into a film very soon afterwards , Franco made it clear that Raza also represented what he wanted to be the popular , mass vision of him . |
| 4 | Nitrite affects the fish by binding with the blood and preventing it carrying as much oxygen as normal . |
| 5 | Sucking the wool and making it damp enhances the lanolin odour , and this keeps the cats contented and fully absorbed in their sucking and chewing . |
| 6 | Acknowledging this interdependence allows us to make the courageous leap of ‘ letting in ’ the fetus , of rejecting the idea that it is simply a clump of cells , of taking it into our moral accounting and allowing it to make some claim on our attentions . |
| 7 | ‘ But we do not proceed on some of the grounds mentioned at the bar , such as the effect of the plaintiff 's alteration of the instrument as making it void , or that the defendant thereby lost his right to contribution from the joint makers of the note ; nor on any doctrine as to the relation of principal and surety . |
| 8 | Could one promote his buried awareness into a skill of giving matter-of-fact recognition to a child 's potential , of giving a child hope about himself , instead of confirming his negative stance by showing surprise at occasional good work or using it to prove that Dave ‘ could do better if he tried ’ ( as we so easily exhort when we are exasperated , and as the group seemed to be doing with Mr E ) ? |
| 9 | A lot of time we 're just messing with the amp and getting it sounding pretty cool , and then the engineer will whack something on it and away you go . ’ |
| 10 | Scrolling through documents is noticeably faster , but the main boost is noticed when moving big chunks around the screen — grabbing a window and shifting it results in a much faster update than you would see with a bog standard VGA card — even a Tseng Labs ET4000 chip set unit ( the ET4000 chipset is probably the fastest of the non-accelerated chipsets ) . |
| 11 | Next we worked together on using his imagination to help him visualize putting the ball from any position on the green and watching it roll gently into the hole . |
| 12 | She suggests suspending a hanging basket from the ceiling and using it to store spare soap , toothpaste , talcum powder and toilet rolls . |
| 13 | It 's a well set out machine and using it became second nature after just a couple of hours . |
| 14 | It is no good pretending that you are ever going to do fine woodwork with this All Purpose saw , but for rough cutting and shaping it has many uses around the house . |
| 15 | As you start , therefore , concentrate on keeping the board level and getting it to move as quickly as possible . |
| 16 | Caroline felt a stir of anger deep within her breast , not at this artless , naïve girl but at Nicolo , Nicolo with his phony morality , his counterfeit Old World manners — his way of finding a woman 's heart and using it to suit his own needs , whether she was eighteen or twenty-four or seventy … |
| 17 | Another electronic effect , pioneered for this story , and thereafter used in all subsequent Dalek serials , was the Dalek extermination effect-a very simple trick of opening a camera 's aperture too wide , thereby admitting in too much light , swamping the camera 's electronics and causing it to send back to the gallery a negative image . |
| 18 | He had forgotten all about his mother 's present and seeing it made him think even more of home . |
| 19 | Dogmatics thus has a critical function in relation to the present witness and preaching of the church , recalling it to its basis and assisting it to uncover and hear what it is called to say today . |
| 20 | ‘ You poor thing , ’ croons Anya , placing a hand on Rainbow 's cheek and letting it linger there . |
| 21 | ‘ Keeping her man under her eye and calling it looking after him . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I feel very pleased after changing our style for this match and seeing it work so well against a Premier League team . |
| 23 | Thus in retail distribution and catering it reaches 80 per cent , in domestic services 90 per cent . |
| 24 | She watched his hands on the wheel , wanting them touching her , stroking her skin , caressing her body and making it come alive . |
| 25 | Before this the tree roots held the soil in place by soaking up the heavy rain and letting it go slowly . |
| 26 | Making the appropriate product and ensuring it gets into the right hands are clearly critical elements in developing the market for older consumers . |
| 27 | In 1990 , he was charged with applying for a copy of a birth certificate in that name and using it to make a fraudulent passport application . |
| 28 | The old tips were formed by dumping material at the top and allowing it to fall into its natural angle of repose . |
| 29 | He twisted down into the chair , holding his head and keeping it averted from the window . |
| 30 | Effectively I suppose , what the best thing to do is to check the T G I manual against the , against the erm ad-hoc procedure and providing it covered all the things which are in the ad-hoc procedure , it should be okay . |