Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Or would you eat the chocolate very quickly without thinking or even looking much at it at all ? |
2 | This is where I live and you 're running all over it like this and spoiling it . |
3 | Paddy was digging the rubbish pit , but sand kept blowing back into it like teeming insects . |
4 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
5 | I mean a real Safeway , you know , the ones you see in the U S where everything you know , even the trolleys , are seven times bigger , erm n n not like they are , you know , the aliens land in the car park of the Maple Valley Safeways in Washington State , and , and observe people coming out of it with enormous piles of shopping . |
6 | Nenna struggled against an impulse to rush into the fish and chip shop at the corner , the only shop in the street , and ask them if they had ever seen somebody coming out of number 42b who looked lonely , or indeed if they had ever seen anyone coming out of it at all . |
7 | And how the mine at the bottom of the shaft was not always dark , but lofty , like a cathedral , and lit up , but with dark tunnels running out from it on all sides . |
8 | Gwendolen had had a distressing day and was making up for it with several glasses of this delightfully spicy lemonade . |
9 | After putting up with it for several weeks , she telephoned the plant . |
10 | The douce denizens of Edinburgh looked up in sudden amazement as a Heinkel thundered low across the rooftops beloved of Baillie Nicol Jarvie and disappeared beyond the hills , a spitfire hanging grimly on to its smoking trail and blazing away at it with all four guns . |