Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [prep] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 2 | Claws braced on the wall beneath it , the thing strained upwards , rolling its dripping head in agony — and something that had been lying tight beneath it on the pavement slid from under its ravaged body and into the basement . |
| 3 | That skill is being taught here too and we 'll be seeing more of it through the week . |
| 4 | Biting back feelings of inadequacy , frustration and anger I tied up the bundle as well as I could , resigning myself to losing most of it on the way down the hill , preparing for laughter and jeers when we got to the village . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose you 've been reading all about it in the papers ? ’ |
| 6 | First , instead of the size of the pool being determined solely by the demands made upon it by the local authorities , the global sum to be spent on advanced further education would be determined by the AFEC in consultation with the DES after it received estimates of expenditure from the local authorities in respect of the provision of higher education within their boundaries , on the grounds that the local authority would behave more responsibly if it paid a proportion of the cost rather than reclaiming all of it from the pool . |
| 7 | The phone was working again , the engineer had scribbled on the back of an envelope , and he was very sorry he had broken the table lamp standing next to it on the coffee table . |
| 8 | And some of the newcomers have money to throw around , so I 'm not going to prevent them throwing some of it towards the hunt . |
| 9 | He once reproached Sir Philip Sidney for his famous refusal of a cup of water on a Dutch battlefield as an act that looks ‘ aggressively holy ’ , and it is hard to imagine any other critic of the age allowing himself such a remark , or even conceiving of it : The okay thing would be to drink some of the cup himself and pass it on , leaving most of it to the other man … ’ |