Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ate quickly , partly because she was so used to eating alone now that it seemed more a practicality than a pleasure , and partly so that the servants might have their own dinner at leisure in the kitchen . |
| 2 | His was a hectic life , becoming more so as it went on . |
| 3 | Things were happening too easily and it made her nervous , even though he was Mrs Bradford 's brother . |
| 4 | ‘ You and Maria Luisa are living together now and it suggests you were involved before . ’ |
| 5 | But I was trembling so badly that it shook the knife out of my skin , and I could move again . |
| 6 | Apply under the cheekbone , pushing upwards so that it goes slightly onto the bone . |
| 7 | Stating these two objectives , the choice does n't seem easy to me — SoftBench is streets ahead in the market and Thomson would be acting very peculiarly if it did n't use Atherton internally . |
| 8 | There was a firework display going on outside but it did sound very much like a gun , and Yoko absolutely froze . |
| 9 | It was going very fast and it made a lot of noise . |
| 10 | Its population was expanding so fast that it seemed impossible that food production could keep pace with it . |
| 11 | In the curious world of Japanese politics , the cause of political reform may be moving forwards just when it seems to be moving backwards |
| 12 | It 's moving very carefully because it does n't want to be detected . |
| 13 | He might feel that any heir , even one who disinherits him , is worth having so long as it keeps the name going . ’ |
| 14 | Third at the last fence , he passed Royal Mail and with just over a furlong to go was finishing so strongly that it looked as if he must catch Aldaniti . |
| 15 | And then he was dragging her by the hands , racing across the lawn , nearly pulling her arm from its socket , crashing through the kitchen door , crying aloud so that it sounded like a whoop of triumph . |
| 16 | The chimney was a traditional one for the Lake District ; a straight , dry-stone cylinder tapering slightly inside as it went up . |
| 17 | People like myself , would n't have had the bottle , would n't have dreamed of coming up here if it had n't been for the good work of people like Mike and Harry , who in my opinion do a superb job in training me , you , all of us in this union . |
| 18 | So do n't write off the ‘ old country ’ yet Amanda it is n't doing as badly as it thinks . |
| 19 | Had anyone been looking in the direction of Miss Danziger they would have observed a faint smile gathering at the corners of her mouth and fading as quickly as it formed . |
| 20 | and what we actually do when we 're standing up so that it becomes more effective yeah ? |
| 21 | Cash was flowing out quicker than it came in during 1930 and this led to the idea that a new racer could be built to earn the ‘ big money ’ at the National Air Races , where the winner had just taken $15,000 . |
| 22 | The tremolo would probably need setting up properly because it feels stiff and uneven in use . |
| 23 | You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long . |
| 24 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |
| 25 | The whistling of the wind was low , disappearing as quickly as it came , ruffling her hair . |