Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benjamin was on the point of replying when we heard the clip-clop of horses ' hooves and saw Doctor Agrippa making his way slowly towards us ; his mount , a gentle cob , ambling along as if it was a balmy summer 's day . |
| 2 | Frye is writing here as if it were possible to distinguish the interests of one self sharply from those of another , and as if , were the effects of male domination to be undone , it would not be too much of a problem for the self to know what its interests were . |
| 3 | ‘ It is a purely ideological desire to see the private sector providing regardless of whether it is appropriate or not . ’ |
| 4 | Charlie Singer appeared in front of the hotel and went towards the railway station , moving fast as if it had suddenly started to rain . |
| 5 | In other words , in those studies where children heard both more and less in the same trials or same sessions , and where there were more than two responses possible , they showed no evidence of treating less as if it meant more . |
| 6 | These studies gave rise to the view that children went through a stage of treating less as if it was synonymous with more . |
| 7 | ‘ When they had that first trouble , Anna finding out about the prince and carrying on as if it were the end of the world , Constanza must have been about five or six ; she does n't even remember ; Mena does , every minute of it . |
| 8 | ‘ Damn fog ; it 's rolling in as if it means to isolate us beneath a blanket . ’ |
| 9 | I go back to thinking that the best way of changing the environment of the colleges would be to try and erm I mean talking again as if it 's boys perpetrating it all the time erm boys will stop doing it if women respond differently . |
| 10 | ( 3 ) The very process of production may or may not be auratic , depending again on whether it is individualized or collective , and the extent to which it is expressive ( auratic ) or impersonal ( nonauratic ) . |
| 11 | Its tail stood up and it fell , spinning slowly as if it were gently unwinding itself . |