Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would run counter to the very informal information exchange that gives it meaning in this internal context . |
| 2 | The Royal College of Physicians and similar organisations overseas have studied alternative allergy and found it wanting in scientific credibility and clinical usefulness . |
| 3 | Nature sustains our feeble reason , and prevents it raving to this extent . |
| 4 | But you do not call an ecumenical Council and keep it going for four years at vast expense in order principally to repeat what is already well known to be the teaching of the Church . |
| 5 | No sooner did he reach York than he resurrected the York Quarterly and kept it going for five years and nineteen numbers , with the arms of the see on the outer cover , and underneath , ‘ Editor : the Archbishop of York ’ . |
| 6 | He not only created the material world but also , like a divine watchmaker , set it going by an initial injection of motion , and kept it going by occasional adjustments . |
| 7 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |
| 8 | A manager may support another manager 's position and justify it according to organisational criteria , but underneath the solidarity may lie the expectation of being supported later in the meeting . |