Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [conj] it [vb past] " 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 ‘ Lomax ! ’ she snapped , her voice sounding as if it came from inside a biscuit tin .
4 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 .
5 Meredith swallowed , not knowing why her skin was tingling as if it had been electrified .
6 His mood changed like quicksilver , the sombreness vanishing as if it had never been there .
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