Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan was to let him ride Dave Leach 's 400cc machine in the first round of the Superteens last weekend and then move on to Moodie 's Yamaha for the Scot is only riding it at the North West and the TT . |
| 2 | and they 're only saying it for the sake of keeping going . |
| 3 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 4 | He smiled tenderly , and the knowledge that he was only doing it for the benefit of anyone who might be watching sliced deep into the very heart of her . |
| 5 | How about just keeping it in the bag ? |
| 6 | He touched this leather , just brushing it with the tip of his soft hen feather , and it was drawn away in angular folds like bat-wings , and beyond a little dark door lay open into a tiny hole , into which he thought he might just manage to put his shoulders . |
| 7 | Rounding it off with a cocktail , we finish our meal and sit there doggedly describing it to the waiter , with the menus there to jog our memory . |
| 8 | I 'm not watching it I 'm just getting it at the beginning . |
| 9 | Anyway treating it with the respect that any fish of unknown toothy potential deserves I knelt across it like a pike and proceeded to unhook it with Rick 's help . |
| 10 | And they 're not just doing it for the money because , you know , if you just sort of give them a mundane task like trolleys for example , they 're banging on the door , you know , when can I get off this , when am I going to get some responsibility . |
| 11 | Just doing it for the week . |
| 12 | Th we must be able to learn from this period , particularly a partial austerity mm but these events are sound events in themselves and that we 're not just doing it for the sake of the sponsor or attracting a sponsor and that it 's not , in itself , completely necessary to have a sponsor otherwise the competition would n't exist . |
| 13 | Somehow hearing it from the Duke 's own lips bestows upon his chosen occupation a form of royal blessing . |
| 14 | Gums were cut open and the knife scythed through the man 's tongue , momentarily pinning it to the roof of his mouth before severing it . |
| 15 | Fredegar records the death of Guntram , apparently in 592 , and Childebert 's succession to the kingdom of Burgundy , thus uniting it to the east Frankish realm , and establishing a political axis which was to last until 613 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I mean , just leaving it to the baby , or making it dependent on the baby 's survival . |
| 18 | As we shall show in greater detail later , Descartes justified his principle of linear inertia by ostensibly deducing it from the immutability of God — a God who conserved the simplest kind of motion in the world . |
| 19 | One of the aims of this appeal is more effectively to fund our secretariat , possibly strengthening it by the appointment of a short term full time development officer . |
| 20 | Leeds played good football , nearly always playing it from the back . |
| 21 | In Berlin , Bismarck let it be known that he saw nothing wrong with the proposed solution , though he backed away from too openly supporting it in the face of a general outcry from the other European courts . |
| 22 | no hope we do n't lose it on that Tim , it 's got all my money in at the moment , it 's a really good one is n't it , we 're really enjoying it at the moment does n't what number it is but we just , what do we do with this ? |
| 23 | Within NERC , the major funding body for earth science research in UK universities as well as in its own institutions , several Visiting Groups have looked at the work of most sections of the British Geological Survey ( BGS ) , often evaluating it in the light of concurrent university research . |
| 24 | So John 's now taking it on the basis that he takes budget with it so |
| 25 | And were the Brodskys simply slumming it for the sake of a little pop action ? |
| 26 | The bream pick up a bait by simply sucking it to the edge of their lips , and then move away from the main shoal to consume it . |
| 27 | The bronze weather-vane can be removed by simply unscrewing it from the metal assemblage holding it , which takes 2 rounds . |
| 28 | When asked if it was silk he replied ‘ I think it is , ’ obligingly donning it at the cash desk to the delight of watching photographers . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | When an edge is completed then any partial edge immediately preceding it in the chart is examined to see if the newly completed edge is required for completion . |