Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Guardian members receive an average £520 for giving the nod to a plan to allow their society to remain a mutual — and to continue operating much as it has since the turn of the century — what price a vote to convert ? |
| 2 | He explained payments in eight monthly instalments may give the impression that tenants were paying more but it covered the full year . |
| 3 | Transformed by cunning makeup and a virtuoso display of technical and emotional acting skill , her portrait of a frail but flinty island woman achieved its power by suggesting more than it said . |
| 4 | I 've never been used to doing that and it makes such a lot of difference when you actually speak to the people . |
| 5 | So he had to wear his and he do n't like doing that because it gets stuck in the locker . |
| 6 | BT can afford to take a smaller profit , of course , but it is only doing that because it has been shamed into doing so by its customers . |
| 7 | Er I should say that I 'm only saying this because it 's written in front of me , some churches apparently in York are putting on alternative festivities er I do n't think they 're trying very hard because I have n't heard of any and I certainly do n't move around the place , hear of any . |
| 8 | I would n't be doing this if it had n't happened . |
| 9 | I enjoyed doing this because it took people by surprise . |
| 10 | ‘ My dear Juliet , how many more times do I have to tell you I 'm doing this because it interests me ? |
| 11 | The fact that there is a surplus means that the public sector is spending less than it receives in taxes , etc . |
| 12 | If it is likely that the Purchaser has to inject money into the business it could end up losing more than it paid if there is a total disaster and the Vendor 's liability is limited in this way . |
| 13 | But we may feel on reading this that it takes two to perform — that performance requires , in however regressive or circular a fashion , the self that so many people believe they have , and that this epistolary Zuckerman exhibits here , in a display of inadvertence which may or may not implicate Philip Roth . |
| 14 | The client will often be promising less than it hopes to be able to deliver : although it may exclude liability for defects in goods , the client will generally seek to deliver goods free from defects , in order to establish or maintain its commercial reputation and protect its trading relationships . |
| 15 | Thus , one predator can learn to avoid brightly coloured individuals without killing all that it encounters . |