Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 2 | If the Panel is satisfied that certain information requested at a full Panel hearing is commercially confidential ( such that it would be damaging to reveal it to the other party ) then it may permit the first party to be heard alone . |
| 3 | If ever German society was to collapse , argued a writer in 1855 , it would be because the middle classes had begun to pursue appearance and luxury ‘ without seeking to counterbalance it with the simple and hard-working ( competent ) sense of the bourgeois [ Buergersinn ] , with respect for the spiritual forces of life , with the effort to identify science , ideas and talent with the progressive development of the Third Estate ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not going to stop the abuse of power , it 's just going to restrict it to the highest level . |
| 5 | ‘ There is not a shadow of a doubt that we are going to win this election and that we are going to win it with the strongest possible representation in this region . |
| 6 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
| 7 | Well WE 'RE not … were going to leave it to the strong men … something different too … the first ever weightlifting world cup for the disabled . |
| 8 | Well as I say , I 'm going to put it in the big one once a year . |
| 9 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 10 | Right , now , erm , were going to have it on the actual headings as far as the minutes concerned cos we did n't deal with anything very much last time , but the next item on the agenda erm , is usually campaigns and Amnesty erm usually has one or two or more campaigns running on a particular aspect of it 's work or a particular country and there was some that really started maybe two or three years ago and which have continued erm in a smaller form since that time . |
| 11 | In response , the largest bird importer in the US , A.A. Pare , has argued that " What we 're doing is salvaging the birds … if they stay in the jungle , they 're not going to have it in the next five years … |
| 12 | It will be interesting to see if you have lost that charm , because you are going to need it over the next few days , every last gram of it . ’ |
| 13 | After the thunderstorms of the morning , i hoped we were not going to need it in the improving afternoon weather . |
| 14 | ‘ I think from then on it was fairly clear that he was going to make it to the very top , ’ one retired civil servant recalled . |
| 15 | Despite the recent and continuing efforts of the United States Tennis Association , and indeed , other National Tennis Associations , to provide better opportunities for all , ( see Main Point ) , it remains a fact that , if you 're an aspiring black tennis player , you have to be something very special if you 're going to make it in the professional game these days . |
| 16 | If firm 2 reneges on punishment , then in the following period firm 1 must punish firm 2 for not having punished it in the previous period , and so on . |
| 17 | My reason for not having done it myself and my father 's reasons for not having done it with the National Gallery is that , in the case of Yale , I 'm looking forward to the day when there 'll be other people interested in English art who will give paintings or money to the Center for British Art just because it is the Center for British Art , where they would n't do it if it was the Paul Mellon Center for British Art . |
| 18 | Two-year-old Sam Brit-ton-Gant 's enthusiasm for his child 's plastic toilet seat was so great that , having used it in the traditional way , he decided it might make an attractive necklace . |
| 19 | He proved how difficult this feat is by failing to repeat it at the second time of asking . |
| 20 | Me , I 've tucking had it with the small place . |
| 21 | The company has been Beta testing the product for several months and , now that it 's launched , is hoping to implement it in the new year . |
| 22 | This is very contrary to our traditional view of trying to segment and fragment the information and trying to keep it at the business specific level or trying to keep it at the corporate level . |
| 23 | Our meals now regularly consisted of hummus , salad , chips and often meat , chicken or fried steak ( which George called ‘ buffteak ’ which was closer to the mark — and particularly apt when we were trying to cut it with the inevitable plastic knife ) , and glasses of Pepsi . |
| 24 | Adam and Harriet Hunt are hoping to make it to the big time . |
| 25 | While the proposal was known to have been received enthusiastically by some EC countries , including Portugal and Greece , others like France opposed a CSCM which would include the Middle East , preferring to limit it to the western Mediterranean . |
| 26 | Having finally admitted that the English drift-netting is damaging to Scotland 's rivers and needs to be phased out , the Government is proposing to accomplish it over the next 30 years . |