Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
2 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
3 | The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century . |
4 | And it had other things going for it too . |
5 | But it had one thing missing — a proper paper . |
6 | According to Electronic News it has no OEM customers as yet , but it has two deals cooking . |
7 | ‘ It is a serious offence , but it means first-time offenders committing that crime could find themselves in prison . ’ |
8 | This on the surface may not seem to be hostile to religion , but it causes severe re-interpretation encouraging many people to regard religion as little more than a culturally derived dressing-up game . |