Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually found it sitting on a wall outside a house . |
| 2 | However , the controversy obscured the clear military fact that Operation ‘ Apache Snow ’ was not intended to hold territory , but rather to keep the NVA occupied and thereby prevent it moving into the coastal provinces . |
| 3 | They could not keep it going in the quarter-final , though they gave Richard and Jonathon Lavelle , of The Berkshire , five shots and beat them 3 & 2 after blue skies gave way to one of the most vicious snow squalls I have seen on a golf course . |
| 4 | it just stopped short of the window , well no it was quite short you know , you could just see it aiming for the window , luckily it was plugged in |
| 5 | Hosepiping the camera back and forth is a bad technique : it makes the audience feel giddy and will soon have it heading for the way out . |
| 6 | He did not see why anyone , even a wealthy mill-owner , would want to drive a horse and carriage backwards down such a steeply sloping yard when he could just as easily leave it standing in the driveway . |
| 7 | Miller has already discovered it clinging like a woodpecker to the skin of the tree . |
| 8 | Holding his breath , Patrick lifted the gate slightly to prevent it scraping along the ground and then pushed it open . |
| 9 | I now keep it going through the winter . |
| 10 | He had his cigarette firmly between his lips because he did n't want it falling on the floor , or worse , on to the track . |
| 11 | Well she said she do n't want it going up the middle there . |
| 12 | If you , you ca n't do it looking at the book . |
| 13 | No more can x be " something which stands for a number " since one could equally well imagine it standing for a matrix or even the differential operator |
| 14 | As Sister Cecilia was to say to her , one could live without reading , writing , or arithmetic , sewing , singing or geography ; and yes — there would be a twinkle in her eye — with some , even without the good God ; but one could n't live without food and without those who knew how to make it appetising to the tongue . |
| 15 | The empire too may be long gone , but you 'd never think it listening to the cricket commentators . |
| 16 | I certainly never pictured it as being the same operation acting on different pieces until I actually saw it happening on the cube . |
| 17 | Hold this end of the yarn lightly to stop it jumping off the needles and knit a row . |