Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the programmer himself has difficulty in driving it two days later ! |
| 2 | Without more water , Georgians reply , their state will have to restrict growth , costing it 680,000 jobs and $127 billion in wages by 2010 . |
| 3 | The most important of these abolished the army which had in effect ruled the country from 1968 to 1989 , created the office of ombudsman to protect the individual and social rights of citizens , and established the full autonomy of the Electoral Tribunal , guaranteeing it 0.7 per cent of current central government finances to enable it to operate effectively . |
| 4 | I tell them they could be wearing it one day . ’ |
| 5 | He was wearing it 154 again today . |
| 6 | So move from buying it every d every weekday say to moving it f to buying it four days a week . |
| 7 | He is stuck with this answer to the second question because he holds ( as does Hare , but not Ayer ) that what one is saying about something when one calls it x is identical with one 's reason for calling it x . |
| 8 | I said mine are getting it three times ! |
| 9 | Begin with the corner motif , positioning it 7 cm from the edge . |
| 10 | The sergeant instructed him to take him into the police station and charge him with taking a vehicle without consent — the offence as complete by moving it thirty yards . |
| 11 | Stretch the leg forwards and back 30 times , each time moving it 3 ins ( 7.6cm ) . |
| 12 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 35 times , moving it 3 ins ( 7.6 cm ) each time . |
| 13 | They tend to throw the ball rather than kicking it 60 yards up the park . ’ |
| 14 | With half the 64 Senate seats up for election , the PRI won 31 , giving it 61 in all . |
| 15 | The vote for the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano-Destra Nazionale ( MSI-DN ) slipped back from 5.9 per cent in 1987 to 5.4 per cent — giving it 34 seats in the Chamber of Deputies — in spite of the fact that Alessandra Mussolini , the 28-year-old granddaughter of Benito Mussolini , stood successfully as a candidate for the MSI-DN in its Naples stronghold . |
| 16 | In the 1970s the government of Valery Giscard D'Estaing made a huge investment in the French telecommunications industry , giving it one of the most modern infrastructures in the world . |
| 17 | And he gulled , and also impressed , the bystanders by lifting up one of the horse 's front hoofs , giving it two or three sharp taps with his knuckles and saying confidently : ‘ Right ! |
| 18 | FARNELL Electronics has confounded the doubters and increased earnings per share yet again in the recessionary 12 months to February 2 , giving it 26 years of uninterrupted growth . |
| 19 | But the SDLP expected to add another seat to its team , giving it eight benches to occupy in the council chamber . |
| 20 | The merger of the two operations will transform Hawker Siddeley into the UK 's biggest supplier while giving it 10 per cent of the European market - putting it in third place behind the Swedish-Swiss combine Asea Brown Boveri and Siemens of West Germany . |
| 21 | And I 'm giving it three wipes each time . |
| 22 | This could be made slightly less astringent by mixing it 50/50 with a flower water or distilled water . |
| 23 | The village is deserted , and ominously near a cemetery containing the graves of 300 French soldiers killed defending it ten years before . |
| 24 | In fact , six out of ten mothers try to breastfeed but , because of problems they ca n't solve , only 26 per cent are still doing it six months later . |
| 25 | With the older boys there are times when leave them alone is the very best policy , you can intrude too much on a pupil who knows what he 's doing ; maybe not doing it 100 per cent successfully , but you 've got to let him get to that point of destruct , as part of his learning process … |
| 26 | And they 've been doing it eighteen months longer than us . |
| 27 | Now , try doing it five or six times in quick succession , all within a second if possible . |
| 28 | But while some reasons favour monthly payments and others favour quarterly ones , neither is sufficient to establish the superiority of doing it one way rather than the other . |
| 29 | His mother had caught him doing it one day and had been extremely angry with him . |
| 30 | If we were doing it seven days a week , fair enough , you 'd probably need a chainsaw but anything , the loppers or the handsaw . |