Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The petition your correspondent mentioned ( while conveniently omitting to mention that it contained the signatures of 179 concerned parents ) was crucial to that meeting taking place . |
| 2 | But no such state of affairs exists in our culture , and it is self-delusory and damaging to pretend that it does . |
| 3 | One of the deals , being kept under wraps until an official announcement in a few weeks , is believed to be a lucrative shirt sponsorship package — but chairman Wallace Mercer is refusing to say if it involves current sponsor Strongbow . |
| 4 | Not wanting to say that it has an immaterial soul , they allow that a horse has a continued identity despite changes of matter . |
| 5 | He planned it , and Damian Flint was going to see that it happened . |
| 6 | They 're on a life raft , where the thing is n't going to float if it does n't get good notices . |
| 7 | I can tell what 's going to happen before it happens . |
| 8 | Now I was beginning to see that it did n't necessarily have to be that way . |
| 9 | Something clanged by the back axle , a rock presumably , and then , with the back still slithering sideways and the rear left wheel beginning to race as it fell off into space , the vehicle gave a sort of shudder and we were out , clear of water and on a hard surface again . |
| 10 | ‘ It was about 8.30am and I was just getting dressed when it came over on the news , ’ said Mr Tyson , a former clerk of works at Harrow council , London . |
| 11 | In terms of illicit drug use , cannabis remains the most er available drug and the most used drug , but having said that it does n't present us with problems to the service . |
| 12 | But because of the advent now of erm organized bonfires , that risk has receded but having said that it has only receded , not gone away . |
| 13 | We suppose that not just This is not in fact necessary for salt fingering to occur but it simplifies the presentation . |
| 14 | Asked whether the new rules have influenced either the amount or type of advertising undertaken , 56 per cent of those responding said that it had not and 11 per cent said that it had exercised only a very marginal effect . |
| 15 | She opened her bag and sifted the contents , trying to discover whether it had been searched . |
| 16 | Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association . |
| 17 | As the industry edges into better times , insurance regulators are trying to ensure that it stays there by laying down tough new risk-based capital-adequacy rules . |
| 18 | Yes , but that 's probably , I mean , I 'm trying to instil that it 's got to be done right into them . |