Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These factors interact making it difficult to predict the likely level of difficulty of a specific problem for pupils . |
| 2 | But women would never be equal , he reflected , pleased to have discovered a new profundity , until the day came when men stopped thinking it natural that their wives should always have the smaller car . |
| 3 | And erm they said well you 've got to come off it , you know , were not going to do you this time , but you 've got to come straight , stop doing it all , erm , cos you 've been reported and your on the Social Security . |
| 4 | As the group was under one unified control it was possible for an employee to be moved around within the group or at least have " his information and knowledge " so transferred making it important that Littlewoods should have protection regarding the whole GUS group . |
| 5 | I ca n't remember seeing it this week but |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't keep challenging it all the time because otherwise they just stop listening to you . |
| 7 | I seem saying it all the time . |
| 8 | Actually I 've got it on here but I just do n't like saying it all the time . |
| 9 | You could get a video , video erm Do n't keep doing it silly ! |
| 10 | Today , the Germans do not envisage doing it any other way either . |
| 11 | NCR has just introduced a model that is about the size of an A4 pad making it possible to walk around and make notes as you go . |
| 12 | Int you Brian , you enjoy guessing it all ? |
| 13 | ‘ I enjoy playing it all . |
| 14 | The fact that the hordes of reporters who live in the burrows of the Palace of Westminster got it wrong — and have since tried to justify getting it wrong — has given me , and many of my friends who knew the score pretty accurately before the result , much quiet pleasure over the last few days . |
| 15 | The village is deserted , and ominously near a cemetery containing the graves of 300 French soldiers killed defending it ten years before . |
| 16 | Maybe he enjoyed playing it light and loose . |
| 17 | It seems that most designers of fibreglass pools are not water gardeners , for the shelves are often narrow and curved making it difficult to accommodate a traditional square planting basket . |
| 18 | As the fish is still feeding , and appears to be otherwise healthy , I would suggest leaving it alone . |
| 19 | Some time during those years I remember thinking it offensive that all the people ‘ up front ’ in black were male . |
| 20 | And that 's what we got doing it that way . |
| 21 | Has anybody actually found writing it all out because as soon as you do , you 'll be faced with hundreds of choices . |
| 22 | Not since they started calling it another Wayne 's World . |
| 23 | I suppose doing it this way limits the no of participants to how many I can cope with . |
| 24 | Better try putting it another way round . |
| 25 | ‘ Apparently , ’ Conolly continues , ‘ Champagne is to be restored to the position of the rich man 's drink it enjoyed before those wretched own-label chappies started making it available to all ! ’ |
| 26 | With rabbit numbers low , this was seen as the opportunity for a further reduction but in response to public outcry legislation was also introduced making it illegal to spread myxomatosis by artificial means — by taking infected rabbits and releasing them near disease-free colonies . |
| 27 | We got man in and he started clearing it all again . |
| 28 | Cos I kept singing it this morning . |
| 29 | And in his opinion that meant sending it all the way to Sotheby 's whose rural saleroom in a stately home in Billingshurst , West Sussex , has made a speciality in recent years of sales of garden furniture , fittings and statuary . |
| 30 | I keep doing it wrong so I gave up and I 'm just covering it with purple . |