Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [prep] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And though I am not sure I would be able to stand looking at it for the run of the show , William Holman Hunt 's hideous , hard-core Pre-Raphaelite head of Christ ‘ The Beloved ’ has the punch of a Gilbert and George . |
| 2 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
| 3 | Now Summerchild has mentioned it , I believe I remember looking at it during the long silences in my conversations with Millie . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , ’ he says , then smashes the ball off the 15th tee , up over the hill and goes running after it down the other side . |
| 5 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 6 | ‘ The others will come looking for it in the morning , ’ Grimma warned . |
| 7 | The librarian handed it to Roland Michell , who was sitting waiting for it in the Reading Room of the London Library . |
| 8 | ‘ If I start gassing about it to the local vet , ’ she said , ‘ it 'll get all stale and distorted , and I shall be so bored with it I sha n't be able to talk about it at all . ’ |
| 9 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |