Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of one hour her back was aching as if it had been kicked all over by a mule ; but she went on doggedly , though it soon became absolute agony . |
| 2 | YOU have to wonder what the Bush administration was looking for when it set out , in early 1989 , to find a new chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts . |
| 3 | What are you looking for cos it 's got ta be linked to what you 're applying for if you 're applying |
| 4 | It makes you think about what you are listening to and it gives you an active role in the lecture process . |
| 5 | They can become self-fulfilling prophecies : you go into a situation expecting to fail , even wanting to if it reinforces your self-image — and the inevitable happens . |
| 6 | Now they 'll be looking at whether it works . |
| 7 | No , it 's not the case , they are X-ray images that we are looking at and it means that we can have er real time conversation with the doctors at the other end to advise whether the patient should be transferred to us or stay within the , in the hospital where they are , er whatever 's best at the time . |
| 8 | ‘ Lomax ! ’ she snapped , her voice sounding as if it came from inside a biscuit tin . |
| 9 | put this program in and you swap it for this er map disk , then it comes up , you tell it where you are , where you going to and it works your route out |
| 10 | SLUMP is where the recession is heading to once it has gone through depression . |
| 11 | That way you know where danger 's coming from before it hits you . ’ |
| 12 | The nine stages of gestation of the unit will take a variable length of time depending on whether it turns out to be an " elephant " or a " mouse " . |
| 13 | In order to facilitate consideration of the national court 's question ( 2 ) it appears advisable to divide it into sections depending on whether it relates to the nationality or the place of residence of the owners and operators ( ‘ operator ’ covers charterers , managers or operators within the meaning of section 14(1) ( c ) of the Act of 1988 ) , or to the place from which the vessel is operated , and hence to reformulate it as follows : |
| 14 | The epidemiology of H. contortus is best considered separately depending on whether it occurs in tropical and subtropical or in temperate areas . |
| 15 | However , in sentences like ( 2a ) and ( 2b ) where the clause boundary and the unit of information boundary do coincide , the monitoring latency for trout should be significantly different depending on whether it completes a clause ( as in 2a ) or begins a new clause ( as in 2b ) : |
| 16 | Something one does without properly thinking about because it helps a friend out . |
| 17 | No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place . |
| 18 | Meredith swallowed , not knowing why her skin was tingling as if it had been electrified . |
| 19 | His mood changed like quicksilver , the sombreness vanishing as if it had never been there . |