Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems too that analogizing is so deeply involved not only in thinking but in perception that there is no hope of escaping from it by isolating pure observations from which induction can start . |
| 2 | Can you see it by looking at it without touching it ? |
| 3 | She listened in silence while the girl , who insisted on being called Claire because , she explained , people viewed her profession with enough scepticism without her adding to it by adopting some theatrical and phoney title , informed her that she had managed to prepare her birth chart . |
| 4 | Living artists would keep adding to it by making contributions from their works . |
| 5 | You start off learning about it by studying natural light , daylight . |
| 6 | Risking the loss of her usual cool dignity , and wearing little more than a feather-trimmed tutu and high heels , Linda was filmed clinging to the building and edging along it before plunging , screaming , to the ground . |
| 7 | Sadly , the Warnock majority is confused as to its basic philosophical argument , condemning utilitarianism in its foreword but relying on it in justifying its crucial recommendation to allow experiments up to 14 days , only to reject it again in opposing the routine testing of drugs on human embryos at any stage from conception . |
| 8 | Though the streets of this city were solid , their buildings numbered and named ; though the avenues were bright enough , even at night , to banish ambiguity , he still felt as though he was on the margins of some unknown land , and in danger of crossing into it without realizing he was even doing so . |