Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [v-ing] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are quite capable of grabbing a solitary puffin in mid-air with their beaks or even beating it to the ground with blows of their wings . |
| 2 | And I mean , if you think that just presenting it in the , in the class is er enough |
| 3 | They 're for the child in school ; they 're for the housewife ; they 're for the businessman of the future , and an ordinary competent businessman has the capability and the possibility of actually learning how these devices work and using them , rather than just leaving it to the boffin , the scientist , the computer expert . |
| 4 | Tunstall 's main thesis is that the evidence for concentration of ownership is very weak if one charts ownership across all media fields rather than simply restricting it to the press , radio and television . |
| 5 | In them he is no longer fighting against his instinctive understanding of the region , traditions and spirit of his home country , but embracing it as a source of inspiration , and eventually using it as a touchstone against which the characters and even life itself are to be judged . |
| 6 | Installation involved hoisting the reactor by crane and gently lowering it into a prefabricated steel structure . |
| 7 | Erm but if this trend continues , I can see them shooting down the activities side of this this place and just using it as an advice centre . |
| 8 | This involved grating soap , microwaving it and finally putting it through a food processor . |
| 9 | So I think th th that the one thing which is good I think , is a possibility of re-opening it up , and possibly using it to a fuller extent , which might actually give it er , er , new lease of life . |
| 10 | Pennethorne incorporated this building , which had only been completed in 1832 , into his scheme by adding another storey and possibly linking it by an arch to the Foreign Office . |
| 11 | Lady Weighall was also responsible for laying out Jubilee Park , opposite Petwood , and later gifting it to the authorities . |
| 12 | Firing the shutter can be equally basic , by mounting a lever on the card camera box and even pulling it from the ground by separate line . |
| 13 | Her argument was that it had offered the women of rock ‘ much worship with little esteem … choosing their image from among the already available fantasies and maybe undercutting it with a little irony . ’ |
| 14 | The drama comes from separating the tooth germ of a mouse embryo from the overlying sheet and then recombining it with the cell sheet enclosing the limb , but which would normally form skin . |
| 15 | When the burning heat in his body had at last broken , she had concentrated on his arm , washing the wound constantly by setting a bowl outside to catch the clean rainwater and then replacing it with the pail , changing the two receptacles again and again . |
| 16 | The board is steered away from the wind by initially inclining the rig forwards and then leaning it over the windward side of the board . |
| 17 | This is because a complete rose is not usually ready to be pressed in one go , so you must condition it first by stripping it of its leaves and thorns , cutting the stem and then crushing it with a hammer , before placing it in fairly deep water . |
| 18 | This they make by chewing wood , masticating it with their saliva and then expelling it as a moist pulp which hardens as it dries . |
| 19 | Resuming at the short fourth hole , he promptly took a double bogey five , leaving a bunker shot in the sand , and then following it with a six at the fifth , where he hooked into some bushes and had to go back to the tee . |
| 20 | Fight discrimination by incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law and then extending it into a full UK Bill of Rights . |
| 21 | We will fight discrimination by incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law and then extending it into a full UK Bill of Rights . |
| 22 | ‘ Given that an angry parent might just conceivably break Gray 's neck for , as you put it , touching up his youngster , why should he go to the trouble of severing the head , and then putting it in the Cathedral font ? |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe just as significant , this is n't a case of the corporate centre devising a policy and then imposing it on the regions — far from it . |
| 24 | Building a stand for 25 tanks of too thin wood and then placing it on a sloping floor . |
| 25 | Instead , you should respond by making the dog lie down , saying ‘ no ’ in a harsh voice and then ignoring it for a period , thus breaking off the game . |
| 26 | Spartak defender Victor Onopko smacked Rushie while in the penalty box , but instead of pointing it out to the referee and then playing it by the book , we had David Burrows tearing into an absolutely scandalous tackle and the tone was set . |
| 27 | These include plungers , wormscrews ( for boring into a blockage and pulling it out ) , and scrapers for removing sludge and silt and either pushing it down the drain or pulling it back into the inspection chamber on which you are working . |
| 28 | ‘ Ah — now that is serious , ’ he said , picking up his shirt and reluctantly easing it over the traces of tomato pulp . |
| 29 | Marx 's own celebration of capitalism is an ironic one , demonstrating its historical necessity , but always presenting it as an instrument of a doomed social formation permeated by the image of proletarian suffering . |
| 30 | ‘ We want to help people but without doing it like a charity . |