Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , it first , made full divorce somewhat easier and cheaper , opening it up to the upper middle class , second , made judicial separation more expensive and more rare ; and third , continued to deny the poor access to either . |
| 2 | They simplified the house , knocking down walls , adding bathrooms , and opening it up to the cool summer breezes from the sea . |
| 3 | A harry torrent flooded through the opening and in no time at all the herd was legging it back to the high land in a wild stampede . |
| 4 | Otherwise passing it on to a third party , but you 're not in the case of a married couple . |
| 5 | When a child has got the squeeze , he is allowed to hold on to it as long as he wants before passing it on to the next person . |
| 6 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
| 7 | ‘ Lapping it up like a weak kitten , ’ thought Fergus . |
| 8 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 9 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Pretty things , ’ wrote Sawyer and Darton of illustrated books in general , ‘ pleasant to fondle , more ready to display to a bibliophile those tiny points of an exquisite technique over which it is legitimate to gloat … the spot of ink adjusted on a Corinthian 's cheek to a thousandth of an inch , or a black line so thin and firm that you can almost see the metal caressing it on to the honest untimbered white paper . ’ |
| 11 | No transporting it on to the main road so they can took took it to the pit bot . |
| 12 | And writing it out in a half hour or hour lesson was almost impossible because it took too many sheets of paper . |
| 13 | An architectural Gone With The Wind with Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara hamming it up across the Grand Canal . |
| 14 | The Gloster meteors will be slogging it out in the first round of the British baseball knockout cup on Sunday . |
| 15 | North had already thrashed out a democratic manifesto for a unified opposition in Nicaragua , the leaders and himself scribbling it out in a cramped hotel room in Miami ; at the hearings , he proudly compared it to the sweaty wranglings in Philadelphia over the Constitution . |
| 16 | The man holding Connelly 's arm pushed it forward , forcing it down onto the largest of the electric rings , holding it there . |
| 17 | This means that in most cases it is more likely to be a matter of relaxing the forward pressure to allow the aircraft to level out rather than pulling it out with a positive backward pressure on the stick . |
| 18 | And the overall engineering figures seemed to have been held back by a ten per cent drop in the fourth quarter , pulling it down to the overall UK trend for the year of minus five per cent . |
| 19 | He seemed to examine the word , turning it over like a rare gem . |
| 20 | He lifted one arm across her , paralleling her own , spreading it out over the double bed above her head until their fingers meshed . |
| 21 | Sophie grabbed the cord that encircled her throat , holding it out like a tight collar . |
| 22 | As each reader received a book he put the date opposite his name , followed by the date on which he finished it , before sending it on to the next person on the list . |
| 23 | One after another , men failed in their attempts to drive the nails , usually succeeding in bending them , so I was proud when Dad , using the skill gained over so many years at the anvil , gave his nail an almighty thump sending it through to the other side of the board . |
| 24 | But it must be equally obvious that during spells of prolonged rain the rabbits are much more likely to stay underground in the warmth and security of their burrow systems rather than braving it out in the open and being constantly soaked . |
| 25 | Cranmer indeed went so far as to claim that : ‘ where the word of God was adversary and against his authority , pomp , covetousness , idolatry and superstitious doctrine , he [ the pope ] , spying this , became adversary unto the word of God , falsifying it , extorting it out of the true sense . ’ |
| 26 | Oh it 's it it 's on a it 's on erm it 's on a plate so you er I do n't mind I 'm , you know I do n't mind not getting it back for the next month . |
| 27 | And and there 's always the chance of getting it back at a later stage er but the whole market will have moved up a level . |
| 28 | So we are now getting it back into the corporate sector . |
| 29 | For an English director it might be very difficult to imagine getting it out of the traditional setting . ’ |
| 30 | Four weeks of being cooped up with Flute had taught Arthur that Ubu Roi was the most seminal possible thing about funniness , and if it was a book he was prepared to try getting it out of the public library one day . |